FIRE IN AUSTRALIA.
A CHURCH GUTTED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Sydney, April 2D. A fire did £SOOO damage to materials and premises at the Buttonhole and Fancy Costume Company’s works and other tenants. A fire gutted St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church at Grafton, practically all the valuable contents being ■destroyed. The insurance was £SOO, and the damage is estimated at £3OOO. It is considered that bats, which visit the church in flocks, may have upset a brazier containing the sanctuary light. Adelaide, April 28. The National Incandescent Mantle Company’s premises were gutted by fire. The loss is £IOOO. The brigade prevented the fire. spreading to the Empire Theatre adjoining.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 96, 30 April 1913, Page 7
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111FIRE IN AUSTRALIA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 96, 30 April 1913, Page 7
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