Danger in bushfires
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Six of seven fires now burning fiercely in the Otway Ranges had been deliberately…
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Bushfire Menaces Mining Town Mt. Lyell Works Surrounded
Fierce bushfires lost wight threatened the Mt. Lyell copper smelting works and the township of Queenstown, on the west coast of Tasmania…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.--Bushfires which swept nearly 100 square miles of grassland from Long Plains to Mallala yesterday caused about…
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THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) today warned that persons carelessly lighting fires in the open were liable to…
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THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) today warned that persons carelessly lighting fires in the open were liable to…
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THE Chief Secretary (Mr. A Baddeley) today warned that persons carelessly lighting fires in the open were liable to…
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THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) today warned that persons carelessly lighting fires in the open were liable to…
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THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) today warned that persons carelessly lighting fires in the open were liable to…
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Regulations on the lighting of fires in N.S.W., gazetted yesterday, carry a penalty of a £100 fine or a year's…
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THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) today warned that persons carelessly lighting fires in the open were liable to…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.— About £100,000 of damage has been done in the bushfire which yesterday…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A bush fire, which police believe was started…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The fight to control a huge bushfire in the Otway Ranges, which police believe was started by a galloping madman on horseback last Thursday, has had to be…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The fight to control a huge bushfire in the Otway Ranges, which police believe was started by a galloping madman on horseback last Thursday, has had to be…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Incendiarists are thought to have started another serious bushfire in…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Police are hunting a madman on horseback who galloped through the Otway Ranges on Thursday setting the forest on fire…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Police are hunting a madman on horseback who galloped through the Otway Ranges on Thursday setting the forest on fire…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Police are hunting a madman on horseback who galloped through the Otway Ranges on Thursday setting the forest on fire…
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PERTH, Sunday.—Players in a cricket carnival at Albany, Western Australia, hastily abandoned their games on…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Dashing into smoke and flames, Mr. H. Bennett, of Ormond-road, Elwood, saved…
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