AUSTRALIAN.
(United Pres* Association—Copyright.) -■ ' SYDNEY. Alienist-29.
• • --^ AUgl Tho American hospital ship is bsmg coaled by American sailors. ° _ While' thp fleet decorations were being removed in the city, a Jittle boy decked himself out with some of the paper flags and coloured papers used in the' 4 decorating. " A man passing by, supposedly for a joke (?) applied a match .to the child, who was shockingly burned, and was taken to the hospital m a dying condition. • ' * ADELAIDE. August 29. s Weisse and'-Varcoe's wickerware factory has been destroyed by fire. A boy was engaged in burning off some rough cane ends, when a pot of varnish be«amo ignited." The boy's clothes'were nied (J and he was badly burned.' The flames spread with amazing rapidity, and the employees on the upper floors had great difficulty in escaping. Two jumped out of windows, and were seriously injured.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 31 August 1908, Page 7
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