Cessnock Blaze Cottage Destroyed CESSNOCK
About 8 o'clock last night a four-roomed weatherboard cottage in First-street, South Cessnock, owned and occupied by Mr. Alexander David…
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Fires & bushfires, 1932
514 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 26
Armidale Fire Police Inquiring Mystery Car Armidale
The police are conducting inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the tragic fire at the premises of Braund and Co. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Protection C. of C. Investigates Petty Larceny
Following on representations made to the West Maitland Council by the local Chamber of Commerce, a copy of a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire's Toll Liner Tragedy 91 Missing Paris, May 18
The arrival of the steamer Andre Lebon at Djibouti with survivors of the Georges Philippar, including Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →House on Fire Owner Charged Sent for Trial Sydney
Edgar Athelstan Molesworth (40), a consulting engineer, was committed for trial at Hornsby on a charge of having maliciously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigades Busy Time Two Fires in One Night
Cessnock Fire Brigade had a busy time on Wednesday night. At 7.55 p.m. the brigade received a call of fire to First-street, South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner on Fire at Sea Disaster Off African Coast. Missing Number, 200
The French £1,000,000 luxury liner, Georges Philippar, of 16,990 tons, known as the "unlucky liner" ever since it caught fire when under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →White Ants and Bushfires
We were travelling by train through a belt of country that had suffered badly in the recent bush fires. "These fires must do a lot of good as well as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Fire Armidale Inquiries More Clues
Detectives inquiring into the recent fire in which two men last their lives have definitely ascertained that a man had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Little Warning Fire on Liner Trials of Rescued Djibouti, May 22
British passengers of the Georges Philipar state that there was inadequate warning of the fire, one stating that the first intimation he had was the among…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sealing Off! Commenced at Greta Fire Smothered Greta
With the fire in the workings of the Greta mine completely smothered, the work of sealing off the old underground workings from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miller's Forest Outbreak of Fire Social Evening Miller's Forest
The home of Mr. Herbert Rande[?] of Miller's Forest, together with its contents, was damaged by fire on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sudden Blaze in Johnstreet
Shortly after 7 o'clock last night Mr Ken. Smith was filling the tank of a light lorry at the bowser in front of Messrs J. W. B. Waterhouse and Son's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coalfields Fire Subdued
The fires in the Anvil Creek, Central Greta and Old Greta collieries are now under control. Sealing operations have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hat Factory Not Aground Damaged by Fire SYDNEY, Friday. American Liner SYDNEY
The Swastika Millinery Company, in Newtown, was partly gutted by fire at an early hour this morning. Fortunately the prompt arrival of The report called for by the State Navigation Department shows that the liner Mariposa did not ground during yesterday morning's fog,…
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Fire completely gutted Gibson's general store at Byron Bay, and partly destroyed Seres Bros.' refreshment room late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire at Byron Bay Whole Town Menaced
The whole town of Byron Bay was menaced by fire on Monday night when the general store of F. G. Gibson in Main-street was completely gutted, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shops Ablaze Rockhampton Fire
A Brisbane message that damage estimated at more than £7000 was caused by a fire in East-street, Rockhampton, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Inquiry Cottage Destroyed
The Cessnock District Coroner conducted an inquiry into a fire which destroyed a cottage in Church-st., Cessnock, on May 19, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Inquiry Destruction of Unoccupied Cottage. No Suspicious Circumstances
An inquiry into the destruction by fire of an unoccupied weatherboard cottage in Church-street, Cessnock, [?]wned by William Thomas King, was…
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