FIRE IN A QUEENSLAND TOWN.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £40,000.
Received December 2, 10.3 a.m. ( BRISBANE, December 2. For the third time in a decade the business portion of the Longreach has been swept by fire. The fir.c broke out in a paint shop, and spread with great rapidity. A large quantity of explosives in one store, together with an acetylene generator, exploded, shattering the windows in the vicinity. The Imperial Hotel, which was one of th© finest country hotels in Queensland, and cost £10,000, was among the places destroyed. The damage is estimated at £40,000.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7349, 2 December 1907, Page 2
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95FIRE IN A QUEENSLAND TOWN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7349, 2 December 1907, Page 2
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