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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
10 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
Intelligence has just reached town that a most frightful accident occurred at Minmi, on New Year's Eve. The facts are these:âA poor old woman, named Moss, took a lighted candle into a room…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday evening last, after the usual' monthly practice, the members' of the recently established Macquarie Fire Brigade assembled in the engine-house for the purpose of hearing a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Dwyer. was brought before the court, in custody, charged with stealing money, the property of one George Redman. Sergeant donohue' deponed to tho arrest of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have been requested by the Police Magistrate to direct special attention to a case which was heart in the Police Court yesterday and a report of which will be found under the head of Police Intelligence" We…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Albert Taylor appeared on commons to answer the charge of leaving a fire, which he had lighted in the air before the same was thoroughly extinguished at Wi? on the 18th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the barque Omega, Captain Patching, which arrived in this port on Tuesday last, we have been put in possession of Wellington papers to the 21st of May. The news they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The most destructive fire which has ever visited the city, broke out on Friday night, in the stables of the Commercial Hotel. The origin of the conflagration is enveloped in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We received the following telegraphic summary of English news from our Sydney agents, yesterday. The Bombay, with the English mail, arrived at Adelaide yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the 14th instant, the most extensive fire ever knowu iu Calluo broke out about 9 o'clock in tho evening, originating, it iu bolioved, in the Hotel Confianzu, situated in the Culle de Constitucion. Tho flames were not long in gaining ground, and ere tho firo engines here und of Liinu were in active operation, the fire war so strong ur.d powerful tlmt it wan with difficulty extinguished, and only after a gient loss of valuable property. The fire extended on tho one hand along to the house of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday morning, the 24th instant, at 1.30 a.m., the inhabitants of this town were again aroused from their slumber by the ominous toll of the fire-bell.—The scene of the…
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