Fires in Melbourne. Melbourne
A fire to-night gutted two floors of a three, story building in City-road, South Melbourne, occupied by Wilmot Knitting Mills Pty., Ltd. The damage is estimated at £6000…
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Destructive Fires Girls' School Damaged
A fire, believed to have been caused by a spark from a boiler, damaged the New England [?] loardink-school, at Armdale (N.S.W.), on Saturday…
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More than £2000 damage was done by a fir at "Killara," the beautiful residence of Mr. W. K. Young, a retired farmer and crazier, of…
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Five hundred acres of grass land in the Urbenville district, 90 miles from Lismore, have been destroyed by fire, which is still burning. Several…
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Albury this morning is enveloped in dense smoke which totally obscured the sun. The smoke has drifted down from the mountain fires which are still…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Hard Fight Flames Spread Quickly Blaze Near Goulburn Goulburn
Bush fires are raging within about eight miles of Goulburn. A firs, which started at the railway construction, camp, near Roslyn…
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A fire broke out In a garage at Mr. W. K, Young's residence today. and spread to the main building, which the brigade had difficulty in saving…
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On Tuesday four members, including the Chief, of the Fire Commissioners Board, Paid Wentworthville a visit. Their exact object has not been…
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DEPARTMENTAL records are even more dangerous than sleeping dogs aroused, and a witness at the Coal Commission yesterday found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Towns Saved Others Threatened Forest Fires Two More Missing MELBOURNE
Forest fires are still burning, and, although some towns have been saved, others are threatened. The body of the last victim of…
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A serious fire late this afternoon destroyed the rear portion of Mr. W. J. K. Young's residence, Summer Street, one of the finest of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →After a Hard Fight Miners Subdue Fire Melbourne
The Vallourn miners, after a fight of 24 hours, have extinguished the fire, which covered the brown coal open cut and threatened the Electricity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Damp at Aberdare Rare, Says Official 20 Years' Record
IF WE do find gas in the collieries, we deal with it in a proper manner," said Mr. Robert Kellsick, superintendent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ambulance 'Plane Crashes and Catches Fire Four Are Killed London, Thursday Evening
A REUTER massage from Case Blanca, Morocce, states that an ambulance aeroplane, while conveying a native trooper to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victorian Holocaust Men Women and Children Burned to Death in Forest Fires Harrowing Scenes in Gippsland and Among the Dandenong Ranges
More than thirty charred bodies of man, woman and children, whole families burnt to death, townships completely blotted out, timber-mills,…
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Bush fires have been causing the residents of St. Marys great anxiety during the past few days. On Monday last the grass on the old…
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The "Evening News" has received two more cheques for the fund opened by "The Argus" Melbourne, for the relief of the bush fire victima…
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A race meeting will not be held to assist the bush fires appeal fund. Members of the V.R.C. committee considered the idea of conducting…
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Bush fires on Brother Mountain, near Mooreland, made a remarkable sight. The flames leapt through the long dry grass and timber up the mountain side till they reached the…
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STARTLING STORIES in Sydney daily papers concerning the awful trail of desolation that recent bush fires left in the Riverina had little foundation in fact. A "Smith's" representative who toured the "devastated" area last…
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