Bush Fires
MOUNT VICTORIA, Thursday.--Applications have been made for help to combat tho fires which are raging round Mount Victoria. "The Grange." a large…
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Bush Fires in Victoria. Melbourne
Havoc has been caused by bush fires in the last two days in the Dandenong Ranges (about 20 miles from Melbourne), especially on the south-eastern slopes [?]tween…
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The fire alarm Installation at the Sydney Rubber Company in Carry-street, Drummoyne, prevented a potentially serious outbreak to-day. The outbreak occurred on a table in…
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The premises of Messrs. Duncan and Frasar in Adelaide were destroyed by fire on Wednesday. The damage it adjoining promises was extensive. This shows the result of the fire…
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Late on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning a robbery of £50 took place at Bodington, the Red Cross Sanatorium, King's Tableland. The…
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The homestead at Bulgandra station has been destroyed by fire. The owner, Mr. C. A. Gibson and Mrs. Gibson, were away in…
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One of the biggest fires that has ever occurred in Adelaide broke out about five o'clock on Wednesday morning in the workshops of Duncan Motors, Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Country Lithgow Fire Brigade Wholesale Resignations LITHGOW
The decision of the Board of Fire Commissioners to remove Captain A. E. Bruton, officer-in-charge at Lithgow, and a widower with two…
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Rowdy unemployed at a public meeting to consider unemployment compelled the abandonment of a set speech by Sir Joseph Cook,…
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Thirty inmates of the State Hospital for the Insane at Ward's Island (Manhattan, U.S.A.) were trapped in their cells and burned to death in a…
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Special instructions have been given to the police to guard all Catholic churches throughout the city during the Lenten season…
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The great heat of Sunday afternoon last was responsible for the outbreak of bush fires in Bankstown, Lakemba, and Punchbowl districts, as well as a big…
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Firemen from the Matraville and Randwick stations had no pleasant, task yesterday afternoon in fighting a bush fire off Burvawang Road…
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Although the extensive bush fires which have sw[?]pt through the Dand[?]nong Ranges duilng the past few days were under control last night. many towns[?]olk who assited to…
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Sir,—We have suffered very much from bush fires in this part of the world. It is sad to see the destruction of so much of our beautiful bush and scrub. What are we doing to…
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MUDGEE.--Recently a weatherboard shop belonging to Messrs. R. Jones and Co., at Dunedoo, and occupied by Mr. Quarry, butcher, was destroyed by fire…
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About mid-day on Saturday last, a fire broke out at the residence of Mr. J. Jackson, Castlereagh-street. It appears that Mr. Jackson had been fastening a strap…
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No town, now-a-days, is considered of much importance unless it has its own Fire Brigade, properly stationed and equipped. Now, Blacktown, the centre…
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Last night it was hot on Treasure Island--so hot that the Seekers did not light the fire. Instead, they dipped the driftwood in the phosphorescent surf,…
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Mystery surrounds the origin of a fire that severely damaged an unoccupied cottage in Quarry-road, Ryde, in the early hours of to-day…
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