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Prompt action by firemen prevented a fierce blaze and a terrific explosion at the paint factory of Charles Atkins and Sons Pty., Ltd, at South Melbourne, this afternoon. Paints in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fourteen men, mostly septuagenarians, were rescued from a fire in a lodging-house at Hamilton, Lanarkshire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After a sensational chase, detectives to-night shot a man dead in Jolimont Park, rear Jolimont station. The victim has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush fires and grass fires are raging over extensive areas in many parts of Victoila, and to-day there is a haze of smoke over Melbourne. None of the [?]res has reached…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →HOT, northerly winds and oppressive weather were responsible for an extension of the bushfires in Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GRAPHIC accounts of stoic endurance in resisting the onrush of bush fires on private property are drifting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The grass fire which started cn Yanga, station yesterday morning is now under control. Between 4000 and 5000 acres of Yanga gras[?] and a quantity of fencing were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →To-day Nature has run riot in Victoria and Queensland. But her ways are as far apart as the poles. In North Queensland flooded rivers have broken their hanks over the rich sugar country after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A SINGLE policeman, armed with a long-range tear-gas gun and shell, a recent American invention, can disperse a crowd at a distance of more…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Fire destroyed a shed, three haystacks, [?] header machine, a lorry, and a quantity of chaff on the property of Mr. A. R. Hall [?] Ooma. A draught stallion imprisoned in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A deputation representing the Fire Brigades Association of New South Wales waited on the Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling) yesterday to protes[?] against the establishment of a Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A DEPUTATION representing the Fire Brigades' Association of New South Wales, and introduced by Mr. D. Clyne, M.L.A., waited…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victoria is in the grip of serious bushfires, which were so numerous to-day that they could not be counted by Air Force patrols…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The first meeting of the recently formed Central Bush Fire Committee was held in the rooms of the Graziers' Association yesterday, under the chairmanship of Mr. F. B. Fleming…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Roaring down gullies, sweeping over plains, momentarily checked by fire-fighters on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →RUINS OF £30,000 HOME of Mr. T. M. Burke, at Sassafras, Dandenong Ranges (Victoria), left, destroyed by bush fire. Right: Fire-fighters trying to beat out fire which destroyed the house. Centre: One of two…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →While on patrol duty at 2 a.m. on December 18, Constable Wicks observed a fire in M. G. Lewis' tailoring shop, Bridge-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WORKING ALL OUT, men and women made a valiant save of houses near Kalorama by burning a break against the big blaze. Smoke from the Dandenong Range fires hung in a pall over Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While the guests at Mr. and Mr.. Robert Dixson's "at home" at the Forum Club last night were waiting in the large picturesque drawing-room…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The three men who landed from a rowing boat on Moscheto Island last night, and commenced pulling down the weatherboard Anglican…
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