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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
20 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
SIR—In your issue of Saturday, a paragraph appears of a Firmen's Picnic in Maitland, at which our City Brigade were not present. Now such gatherings are commendable and tend to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—In your issue of Saturday, a paragraph appears of a Firmen's Picnic in Maitland, at which our City brigade were not present. Now such gatherings are commendable and tend to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following are the particulars of this sad event, abridged from the S, M. Herald:—The fire of Saturday morning is believed to have originated in the property-room at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Henry Vaughan (son of Mr. Vaughan, hairdresser, of Pitt-street), about twenty-one years of ace, and Charles Tost, of Castlereagh-street, watchmaker, aged eighteen, who were danger…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the accounts of the fire already published, we have to add the melancholy intelligence that Henry Vaughan died yesterday, I from the injuries which he received through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FIRE! Forth on the quiet night has burst the fearful cry, rousing weary slumberers from their conches, filling the erstwhile silent and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following are the particulars of this sad event, abridged from the S. M. Herald:— The fire of Saturday morning is believed to have originated in the property-room at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Henry Vaughan (son of Mr. Vaughan, hairdresser, of Pitt-street), about twenty-one years of age, and Charles Tost, of Castlereagh-street, watchmaker, aged eighteen, who were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From telegrams published in our Sydney contemporaries, we collect the following particulars in reference to the destructions, by fire, of the Theatre Royal, Bourke-street, Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The inhabitants of Gulgong were startled on Saturday evening by the cry of "Fire." It proved only too true that there was a fire, and such a one as we hope never again to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early on Friday morning, Messrs. Barker and Co.'s Tweed Maufactory, near the corner of Bathurst and Sussex streets, was destroyed by fire, together with the greater part of its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early on Friday morning, Messrs. Barker und Co.'s Tweed Manufactory, near the corner of Bathurst and Sussex streets, was destroyed by fire, together with the greater part of its…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Tuesday last a very interesting ceremony was performed by his Worship, Robert Turton, Esq., Mayor of Waratah, in the presence of the local manager of the establishment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The most serious and startling instance of conflagration, as occurring within the district, that we have had to chronicle during the existence our journal, took place on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE destructive fire which has recently occurred at Gerringong, and by which a large portion of that village was destroyed, is full of warning to the inhabitants of most of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sunday, November 10.—A most disastrous fire broke out here this morning. The whole of the buildings in Commercial and Central streets are destroyed. Many buildings have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a few minutes after one o'clock this morning, a most disastrous fire broke out in Hunter-street, hy which the large Hall of the School of Arts, the reading-room adjoining,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The report in our last issue of this fire, given at some length—although, at a time when we otherwise should have been at press—precluded us from giving all the particulars, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday evening last, a public meeting of the citizens, convened by the Mayor, A. A. P. Tighe, Esq , in compliance with a numerously signed requisition, was held at tho court-house,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday, Dr. John Pierce, coroner of Maitland, at the request of Messrs. Creer, Gardner, and others held an inquest on the late fire, at Mr. Hollingshed's, Hunter-street, Newcastle,…
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