Bush Fires
Dear "Planets,"—I have at last found time to write you a few lines, but the weather has been so hot lately that one hardly feels like letter-writing…
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Fire at Redfern
The Redfern and George Street West' fire brigades effected a good save in East Street, Redfern, last night, when a block of three two- storey weatherboard houses narrowly escaped…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday. -- The Thames Hotel at Auckland caught fire. The top storey was completely burned, but the second storey was partly burned. An elderly man…
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Seventy-five thousand bags of old wheat were destroyed by fire at Mirrool lust Friday. The residents of the village were almost prostrated by heat…
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Quit a phenomenon has taken place in a cutting on the Mudgee railway line, about 16 miles from Lithgow. In some of the cuttings between Portland and…
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By a fire in a wheat stack at Mirrool siding, on the Temora-Barellan line last week 750,000 bags of 1916-17 wheat, it is estimated, were destroyed. It was…
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A fire occurred in a lumber store at the rear of the Oceanview Boarding-house, Manly, yesterday. The flames were prevented from spreading, but the store and its contents were…
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A fatal fire occurred at Auckland. The top story of the Thames Hotel was completely destroyed, and the remainder of the building greatly damaged. Many of the inmates had…
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A wood and iron structure used aa the boiling room of the sterling Varnish Company in Huntley-street, Alexandria, with its contents, was…
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Victoria is now in the if grip of the fire fiend, which has already destroyed many thousands of acres of bush and grass land throughout Queensland and…
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Tuesday was an exceptionally warm day and its unpleasantness was added to by a big blaze which started in a paddock near the West Pennant Hills R.C. Church. For…
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The ravages of the pneumonic influenza epidemic in the islands are described in a letter received from Suva by Mr. A. Edwards, of Gosford. He writes: "Since last I wrote…
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A fire at the Brighton Hotel early this morning destroyed the spirit room and damaged two rooms above. No estimate has been made of the loss, which includes a valuable…
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The Lidcombe fire station received a call at 8 o'clock on Saturday night from the fire-alarm box in Oxford-street. The blaze was in Hyde Park-road on vacant…
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At Parramatta on Tuesday Mr. H. Richardson Clark held an inquest touching the cause of the fire on December 25 at the Blacktown Timber Company's…
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On Thursday night, between 9 and 10 o'clock, an attempt was made to burn down the Gladstone meat works, happily without success…
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Damage estimated between £20,000 and £25,000 was done by a fire recently at the north plating shed in the main pard of Messrs. Harland and…
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A well-known racing identity Mr. William Ward, Katoomba, and a large property owner locally, had a paralytic stroke on Thursday. His condition is…
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The stage and scenery of the open-air portion of the Britannia Theatre in Blende-street were destroyed by fire this afternoon…
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