"Galloping Madman" Sets Bushfire Forests Blazing
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Police are hunting a madman on horseback who galloped through the Otway Ranges on Thursday…
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Car Set On Fire
FIREBUGS are believed to have set fire to this car at 'I the home of the owner, Mr. Robbie Soutar, Northcote St., Haberfteld, about 1 a.m. today. Barking of the fox terrier Mr. Soutar is holding awoke him in time to see…
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FIREBUGS are believed to have set fire to this car at the home of the owner, Mf. Robbie Soutar, Northcote St., Haberfield, about 1 a.m. today. Barking of the fox terrier Mr. Soutar is holding awoke him in time to see…
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NEW YORK, Monday. -- When fire broke out tonight in the Willowtree coal mine in Ohio (scene of a disaster…
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FIREBUGS are believed to have set lire to this car at the home of the owner, Mr. Robbie Soutar, Northcote St., HaberReld, about 1 a.m. today. Barking of the fox terrier Mr. Soutar is holding awoke him in time to see…
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FIREBUGS are believed to have set fire to this car at the home of the owner, Mr. Robbie Soutar, Northcote St., HaberReld, about 1 a.m. today. Barking of the fox terrier Mr. Soutar is holding awoke him in time to see…
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FIREBUGS are believed to have set fire to this car at the home of the owner, Mr. Robbie Soutar, Northcote St, Haberfield, about a.m. today. Barking of the fox terrier Mr. Soutar is holding awoke him in time to see…
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FIREBUGS are believed to have set fire to this car at the home of the owner, Mr. Robbie Soutar, Northcote St., Haberfield, about 1 a.m. today. Barking of the fox terrier Mr. Soutar is holding awoke him in time to see…
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MELBOURNE, Monday:—Kennedy's Creek, a little settlement on the western slopes of the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Children playing with matches behind an oil store caused a fire which…
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CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. -- All buildings destroyed in the Ballantyne department store fire (in which 41 people were killed) had wooden floors, stairways…
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"Stand-over men" areb lamed by Robbie Burns Soutar for setting fire to his car at Haberfield early today. He said that he had been…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--A forest fire on a 20-mile front tonight threatened to destroy a large Victorian…
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MELBOURNE,Tuesday.--As hundreds of men ore fighting desperately to control the huge bushfire raging in the Otway Ranges (S.W. Victoria), further…
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CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. -- Extraordinary fire brigade confusion in the early stages of the disastrous fire at Ballantyne's store, which killed 41 people, was alleged by Crown counsel at the Royal…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—After having searched for days for a madman suspected of…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday. --Delay in calling a fire brigade contributed to the deaths of 41 people in Ballahtyne's department store fire in…
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Regulations on the lighting of fires in New South Wales, gazetted last week, carry a penalty of a £100 fine or a…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (A.A.P.).—A sudden fire broke out last night in the Willow Grove coal mine, St…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday, --A change of wind this afternoon…
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