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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1869

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The Necessity of Having an Effi-cient Fire Brigade in Newcastle. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 23 September 1869 · page 3

SRI The fire that occurred at Maitland on Sunday night last, ought to be a warning to us to be prepared in case any such calamity should overtake as in Newcastle. I am sorry to say…

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Maitland. the Late Fire in West Maitland

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 30 November 1869 · page 3

In addition to the particulars of the above fire, which appeared in our last issue, we extract as follows from the Mercury of that date:- Knowing that the promises were unoccupied, Constable…

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Colliery on Fire Near Wigan. Fourteen Animals Suffocated

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 28 December 1869 · page 3

Shortly after 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, it was discovered that a fire had broken out in the yard mine of the Walthew House Colliery, the property of Messrs. W. H…

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