While the home of Mr. Van Eede stands unscathed in the background, all that remained of Mr. Wartle's house was a smouldering mass of ruins after the bush fires had taken their toll at Selby yesterday, when a strong northerly fanned the flames into fresh activity in the district. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--With the bodies of two men lying in the wreckage, a Piper Cub light plane was found on a rocky ledge in the mountainous Megalong Valley this afternoon. The plane took off from Kingsford Smith Airport ...
Article : 698 wordsHerr Hitler, dressed in plain khaki. will address the Greater German Reichstag to-night in the Kroll Opera House, as the old Reichstag building, which was ...
Article : 510 wordsFanned by the strong northerly wind, the fires, which commenced in the Selby district on Saturday, broke out with renewed vigor yesterday, and, spreading quickly, soon covered a large area. ...
Article : 1,383 wordsCOBDEN, Monday.--The town was in grave danger this afternoon, because of fierce grass fires at Elingamite and South Ecklin. Panned by a northerly gale, the outbreaks looked uncontrollable until the full force of Cobden bush-fire brigade and ...
Article : 628 wordsHORSHAM, Monday.--Horsham's new town hull, which is in an advanced stage of construction, was badly damaged by fire and water this afternoon. ...
Article : 236 wordsBuck began his career in Newcastle as a motor-cycle dirt-track rider, and became well known competing against some of the world's best riders. About seven ...
Article : 107 wordsFatal Injuries were received by Hector Jenkins, 17 years, Barnard-grove, North Kew, when a charge of shot entered his hip from a gun carried by his brother, ...
Article : 138 wordsNine persons were injured, one of them seriously, when, a motor truck in which they were returning from a picnic on St. Kilda beach collided with ...
Article : 195 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--After a gruelling swim of more than 200 yards, life savers rescued three men who were in danger of being washed on to the rocks at North ...
Article : 112 wordsEmbers from the Selby fires were blown yesterday by the strong north-easterly gale through the forest, and towards evening serious fires broke out in the ...
Article : 189 wordsWith millions of super feet of timber stacked in the locality and a strong north wind blowing, there were grave fears yesterday morning that a fire ...
Article : 159 wordsMOE, Monday.--Much consternation existed at Willow Grove and Tanjil South to-day when bush fires menaced several farm houses. Urgent messages ...
Article : 272 wordsMrs. Ivy West, a young woman, Oxford-street, Oakleigh, had a leg fractured when a bicycle she was riding at Cheltenham yesterday skidded, throwing ...
Article : 38 wordsGEELONG, Monday.--Falling from the side of a furniture van, when the vehicle swerved after the steering gear had jammed, six boys from St. ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON.--Mr. Hudson, secretary to Oversea is Trade department, called at No. 10 Downing-street, and offered his resignation. The prime ...
Article : 73 wordsEMERALD, Monday.--Fires this afternoon destroyed Lanceter's garage and the residence of Mr. R. McLean adjoining. ...
Article : 57 wordsPERTH, Monday.--With the full starboard wing of the bridge badly shattered and the saloon fittings wrecked and sodden with salt water. the ...
Article : 82 wordsCOLAC, Monday.--Several fires, which had been burning on the north side of the main ridge at Otway Forest, linked up this morning, and driven before a ...
Article : 187 wordsWARRNAMBOOL, Monday. -- Fires which broke out in the Naringal district on Sunday revived under the Influence of a strong northerly wind to-day, and ...
Article : 69 wordsCAIRNS, Monday. -- While walking along Brampton's Beach on Saturday afternoon, Francis Britten, 32 years, was killed by lightning, and his father-in- ...
Article : 54 wordsRefugee children from Sudetenland arriving at Croydon aerodrome, England, after their flight from Prague. Numbers of children still continue to find refuge in England from their unhappy conditions in Czechoslovakia. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsScenes such as this are now being witnessed on the road from Barcelona, which is crowded with refugees fleeing from the terror of approaching battle. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 31 wordsMT. GAMBIER, Monday.--The fire alarm sounded several times to-day as a result of outbreaks near the Victorian border, and a grass Are between the gaol ...
Article : 123 wordsWhen a canoe in which he was sailing with another youth on Edwardes Lake at Reservoir overturned in the strong north wind yesterday, Keith ...
Article : 85 wordsCASTERTON, Monday.--Fanned by a strong north-westerly wind, a fire threatened several properties and the township of Dergholm, in the Castorton ...
Article : 96 wordsCORRYONG, Monday.--Since the serious outbreak of fire in this district which took place on January 13, fires have been burning steadily in the hills at ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 31 Jan 1939, Page 11
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