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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
130 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 7
SIR,—In your issue of the 20th inst., you report the following in connection with my financial affairs: 1. "On the 5th of November I valued my stock at £450." My sworn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the committee appointed to make arrangements for the purchase of appliances in connection with the proposed volunteer fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE quiet neighbourhood lying between Jamieson-street and Charlotte-place was (says the Daily Telegraph) aroused early on Christmas morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE total loss sustained by the recent disastrous fire at Grenfell is estimated at between £10,000 and £13,000. The principal assurance offices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT 11 o'clock, on the morning of Boxing Day, a fire broke out in the west wing of the Alfred Hospital, at Melbourne. By good management…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IT is no wonder that the Christmas season in Australia possesses somewhat Plutonic characteristics, and that in 1888, as in previous years, there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT noon, a fire occurred in a four-storey building at the table-baize works of Messrs. Storey Brothers, Lancaster, England. A piece of oilcloth…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two disastrous fires are reported from the United States. At Marblehead, a seaport and township in Massachusetts Bay, the whole of the buildings on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT about half-past 1 o'clock on Friday morning a fire broke out in some stables and a hayloft situated at the rear of a butcher's shop occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE funeral of the two unfortunate young men who met their deaths on Christmas morning at the fire at Wentworth House, took place (says…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE bill to amend the Fire Brigades Act, which was introduced to the Legislative Assembly by Sir Henry Parkes on the 22nd instant, has (says…
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