Bush Fires. Holiday Campers Arrested
DAPTO, Friday.--As a result of the bush fires at Albion Park, four holiday campers were arrested and charged with the careless use of fire…
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Bush Fire at Rookwood
The Lidcombe Fire Drigade put up a good fight at Rookwood [?] yesterday against a bush are that at one time threatened to sweep the whole are. It…
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Bush fires have been raging around Cootamundra for days, and there have been fierce fights to save property. Messrs. Kiley Bros., of Darah, lost 1700…
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On Christmas Day a fire broke out amongst a stack of 5000 good sleep[?] in Clyde marshalling yards. They buried furiously and considerable damage was…
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Some excitement was caused at Epping last week when a pile of empty cases at the back of Mr. E. Watt's shop caught fire. With the stiff breeze that was…
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A disastrous fire occurred at Blacktown early on Christmas Eve, when damage, to the extent of some £14,000, was occasioned to the building, machinery, etc, of the…
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The Bankstown Council intends applying to the Board of Fire Commissioners for better fire-fighting appliances for the district. It was suggested at the last council meeting that the…
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A destructive fire occurred about 4.45 a.m. on Xmas Day at the Blacktown Timber Co.'s yards, Blacktown, and despite all the efforts of willing volunteers,…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--A serious explosion, due to fire damp, occurred this morning at Redbank Colliery, Inswich district, two miners being killed and another dangerously injured…
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A big bush fire raged all yesterday afternoon' in the Mahometan and Chinese sections of the Rookwood Cemetery, but the Lidcombe Fire…
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A big bush fire raged all Friday afternoon in the Mahometan and Chinese sections of the Rookwood Cemetery, but the Lidcome Fire…
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On occasional nights during several weeks past the mountain ranges on the South Coast have been brilliantly illuminated by bush fires, and residents have not been a little…
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Can lightning cause grass fires? A great many people say that it cannot; but in the pastoral districts of Queensland it would be hard to find many who share this belief after…
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The prompt action of the fire-women at a certain munition factory recently turned into a slight outbreak what, otherwise, would undoubtedly have been a very disastrous fire…
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A fire occurred last night at Castle-reagh, near here, completely destroying a store, residence, and post office, the property of Mr. Resenburg. Its origin…
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A fire at the railway goods stores at Shoreditch destroyed thousands of tons of grain and [?]ast quantities of dairy produce and other food, including eight milion eggs…
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The big city are on December 20 which destroyed the Crown Studios in George-street, and damaged Roberts' Hotel at the corner of Market-street, and…
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The fire which destroyed the Crown Studios in George-street on the night of Friday, December 20, was inquired into by the City Coroner (Mr…
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