Fire Fiend. Two Casino Outbreaks. House and Shed Destroyed
The tranquility of the Christmas vacation in Casino was broken by two alarms of fire. The first call was received on Tuesday of last week, when,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1928
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Disastrous Bush Fires Melbourne
Disastrous bush fires raged at Benalla yesterday. Eight, horses caught in the flames wore incinerated. Sheds, grass, haystacks and foncing all fell victim to the onrushing…
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YASS, Wednesday.—About 500 acres of grazing country on A. Elliott's property at Good Hope was swept by bush fire. A number of city youths who…
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MACKAY, Wednesday.—Rushing down the back stairs with his clothes ablaze Mr. Kildentoft, a dentist, gave the alarm of fire in his rooms in Dalrymple's…
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Over 100 men are now engaged in fighting bush fires in the district. The danger has now passed. Hundreds of snakes and other reptiles were driven out of the bush by the…
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ALBURY, Thursday.—Over 100 men are now engaged in fighting bush fires in the district. The danger is now passed, but a new menace threatens…
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BERLIN, Thursday.—A mysterious and violent explosion occurred early this morning in a house in Berlin. Many of the occupants…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—A fire which is believed to have originated in fusing electric wires, to-day caused damage in Queen Street, Ayr, estimated at…
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A serious fire is believed to have occurred on the Norwegian steamer Yarra in the port of Gizo, Solomon Islands. The Sydney agents stated this morning that the…
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Ten bags of mail for Queensland stations were destroyed when a louvre van attached to the Brisbane mail train which left Sydney at 2 p.m. yesterday caught fire between…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--Ten bags of mail for Queensland stations were destroyed when a van attached to the Brisbane mail train caught fire between…
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LONDON, Thursday.--''We must not allow jazz to pay fat dividends while steel, cotton and wool languish," said Sir Henry Coward, the famous…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A horrible accident occurred at Hockliffe today, when a motor lorry skidded through a hedge and down a bank…
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A five which is believed to have originated in the fusing of electric wires paused damage in Queen-street, Ayr, estimated at nearly £10,000. Flames were noticed…
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CANBERRA, Saturday.—A work men's mess-room at East Lake, a suburb of Canberra, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. The fire…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—Damage to building and stocks, estimated at over [?]1OO,OOO, resulted from a spectacular fire which practically…
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FREMANTLE, Monday.— Damage estimated at over £50,000 was caused by a fire which broke out in Kitchen and Son's soap factory at North…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- According to a wireless received in Sydney yesterday from the Solomon Group, the steamer Yarra, which recently caught fire, is…
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The small township of Bayswater at the foot of the Dandenon Ranges, about 20 miles from Melbourne, is reported to be in grave danger from big bush fires. To-day it was…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— The small township of Bayswater, at the foot of the Dandenong Range, about 20 miles from Melbourne, was reported…
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