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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
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Wallsend was surrounded with bush fires yesterday, and the smoke that came into town was very oppressive, in the direction of Teralba, Wentworth estate, Tickhol, at the back of Wallsend Colliery, and other places…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Thursday morning last the inhabitants of Wallsend and district were thrown into a state of considerable excitement, by the wild report that the Co-operative Colliery was "all in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early on Thursday morning a message was received by Mr. Cheater the manager of the Co-operative Colliery, that a fire had broken out in the sir-shaft, or furnace as it is popularly called,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the evening of New Year's Day an extensive fire occurred at Braefield, on the premises of Hugh Hughes, a farmer of that district. The origin of the fire is not positively…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN our issue of Saturday last we stated that several large bush fires were burning around Wallsend. Since then we have been furnished with some particulars respecting the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday last, about midnight, the Dunmore mill commonly known as Mr. John Mitchell's mill, standing on the bank of the Paterson River, was destroyed by fire. The property, we have heard, was altogether…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A colliery accident, by which twenty-one persons lost their lives, occured here yesterday morning in the workings of the New Tredegar Colliery, through an explosion of fire-damp…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the members of the Lambton Fire Brigade, was held in Mr. Stoker's committee rooms, on Thursday evening last, for the transaction of general business and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last evening a meeting of the Fire Brigade Committee, was bold in the Town Clerk's office. Present: Aldermen Chapman, Ludlow, and Dart. F. J. Shaw, Esq, J. P. ("mayor of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT a little before 12 o'clock on Thursday night the whole of the town was thrown into a state of excitement by the cries of "fire," and the now well-known tones of the fire bell. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Tuesday morning about 4 o'clock the residents of Lambton were again aroused from their beds by the now well-know tones of the fire bell. With scores of others, I rushed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the Lambton Fire Brigade was held on Wednesday evening last, when the foreman handed in a cheque for £3, 3s,—received from the Mutual Fire Insurance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The committee met on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, at the office of George Mitchell, Esq., American Consular Agent. The members present were—Mr. S. Chapman (Chairman). Mr. William…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The untimely destruction of this Goliath training ship by fire affords a fitting opportunity for bringing under notice any practical means for extinguishing fires on board ship…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The usual weekly meeting of the Newcastle Fire Brigade Committee was held last evening at the office of Mr. G. Mitchell, Mr. Webb…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Newcastle Fire Brigade committee was held at the offices of the hon. treasurer (Mr. George Mitchell) last evening. Present: Alderman Chapman (in the chair),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE town last night, at a quarter to 12 o'clock was unusually quiet, and the hotels were about being closed, when a man calling out "Fire!" rushed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Singleton Argus' correspondent writes as follows:—"Considerable constervation was caused in Murrurundi on Saturday afternoon last, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE usual weekly meeting of the Newcastle Fire Brigade Committee was hold lost evening, at the office of Mr. George Mitchell. There were present—Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING of the above committee was held at tho offices of Mr. Mitchell last evening.Present : Aldermen Chapman (chairman); Shaw, Dart, Ludlow, and Messrs. Rodgers, and…
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