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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
6 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
We mentioned in our Saturday's issue that an extensive fire had broken out on the afternoon of the preceding day at Liverpool. We have since been furnished with the following particulars relative to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In a paragraph which appeared in n premium issue we stated that a fire engine had been granted to this brigade by the Liverpool and London Fire Insurance and the Sydney Fire Insurance Companies. We find that we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No human being is or can be independent of his fellows. Society is a vast web of complicated relations, so thoroughly intertangled as not to permit of the separation of any one from the rest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following statement of a fire on board this fine vessel has been handed to us by a passenger:—On Sunday afternoon the 24th January [?] le 19 degress 35 minutes north, longitude 25 degrees 11 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a few minutes past, two, on the night of the 6th and 7th inst., the sound of the [?] mingled with the strains of bugles and the calls of fire a [?] the peaceful inhabitants of our city. In a few minutes, a large body of fire was seen consuming several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday night, August 23rd, about ten o'clock, the inhabitants of this Creek were thrown into the greatest consternation, in consequence of a report that George Reynolds (a boy of ten years of age), a son of…
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