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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
28 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
SIR—In answer to the enquiry of "Candour," which appears in your issue of Saturday, I beg to inform him that it is not true the "St. Mary's Organ Fund" have received £5 from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The committee, in presenting the sixth annual report, have much pleasure in speaking favourably of the doings and prospects of the brigade. The year which has just passed—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At about five minutes past twelve o'clock on Sunday morning last, a most disastrous fire broke out in lower Hunter-street, by which the large drapery establishment of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday morning, Mr. T. W. Pearse, coroner, commenced an enquiry at the Northumberland Hotel, Hunter-street, into the cause of the fire which occurred on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Harriet Amy Owen was charged with haying, on the 30th ultimo, stolen a nipple glass, a kerosene lamp, and a quantity of crockery, from one Joseph Hollinshead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Rae, Secretary of the Mutual Five Insurance Co., has kindly furnished us with the following extracts from the Blue Book of 1862, and evidence taken before a select committee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About a quarter to eleven o'clock on last Saturday night, a number of persons residing near Wooloomooloo Bay discovered that the premises between Dowling and Duke streets, occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Fire King was wrecked on Thursday on the Manning River Bar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The magnificent public building, known ns the Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill, six miles north of London, has been completely destroyed by fire. The vast building was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after three o'clock on Tuesday morning, the premises occupied by the Miners' Adrocate, at Plattsburg, near Wallsend, were discovered to be on fire, and, within a very short…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday last, an inquest was held at the White Swan Inn, Plattsburg, before the District Coroner, A. A. P. Tighe, Esq., and a jury of twelve, touching the destruction by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As briefly noticed in Friday's Herald, a fire occurred on the morning of Fiiday, at Messrs. Warburton and Sons' coal wharf, pyrmout, which resulted in the destruction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At about eleven o'clock on Saturday night, a fire broke out in Kelly's timber-yard and stores, Thomas street, Dublin, which are very extensive premises. It spread with such…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday, at noon, there stood, on the top of Muswell-hill, in all its beauty of situation and in all its wealth of decoration, a great building, not perhaps so comely in itself as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle DEAR SIR—I will esteem it as a favour if you will publish the accompanying correspondence, which explains itself.—Yours truly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last night, about half-past eleven o'clock, as some passers—by were coming up Hunter-struet, they observed smoke issuing from the front shutters of Air. K. D. Cleary's premises, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In consequence on the lateness of the hour at which the conflagration in Hunter-street took place on Wednesday night, we were compelled in our issue of thursday to give a condensed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Owing to the excitement and interest taken in the late fire were are induced to publish an extra edition of the Chronicle on Tuesday evening. We again republish it for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In consequence of the demand for extra copies containing an account of the inquest on the late fire at the corner of Hunter and Newcomen streets, we are induced to publish in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The adjourned inquiry into the cause and origin of the late late fire at Mr. Cleary's drapery establishment, Hunter street, on the night of the 3rd instant, was held this day, at…
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