FIRE IN MELBOURNE
CJ> SEVENTEEN TEAMCARS DESTBOYKD. DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £15,000. Pmi Associalioif-By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, March 7. {Received March 7. at 11.16 p.m.) A tiro at Elsternwiek has destroyed (lie whole stock of cars, numbering 17, of the St. Kilda-West Brighton electric tramway. As ii result, business on tho line lias been suspended till new cars are built. Tho cause ofthe fire is a. mystery. The electric current was tut, off "al. tho time of iho outbreak, the fire starting in. tho nianngcr's office. The damage is roughly estimated at £l!i,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13846, 8 March 1907, Page 5
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