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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
194 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 10
WHEN the Marine Board mob this afternoon Richard Phillips, engineer of the steamer Waldemar, pleaded guilty to having caused the fire in the Vessel's boiler on September 19…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Quarterly meeting of West Maitland Fire Brigade Board was held at the Town Hall at noon yesterday. Alderman Crothers, Mayor of West Maitland, and chairman of the board,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A report dated Perth, Monday, says that during the voyage of the streamer Gulf of Siam from England to this coleay a fire broke out on board in latitude 10 10 S., longitude 3.40 E., on the 12th September…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY morning, shortly after 2 o'clock a fire broke out at the residence of Mr. Henry Calderwood in Little Young-street, Carrington. Mr. Calderwood, who was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE greatest excitement prevailed in shipping circles yesterday afternoon when it was rumoured that there was a case of smallpox on board the barque Carleton, which arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A report to hand dated Auckland, Wednesday, says:—"A fire broke out in the forecastle of the Mararoa this morning while the vessel was in dock at Port Chalmers undergoing her periodical overhaul…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE quarterly meeting of the Newcastle Fire Brigades' Association was hold at the City Fire Station loot evening. Mr. Cave, of the Carrington Brigade, presided. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YESTERDAY morning at about 3 o'clock a fire broke out in the Albert Victor Hotel, Merewether, occupied by Mr. Philson, who at present is away at Wyee on business. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A lunatic asylum at Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, has been destroyed by fire, Fifteen of the inmates were burned to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CONSTERNATION was caused in racing circles early this morning by the report that Dreamland and Carnage had been burnt to death in a fire which broke out at 6 o'clock at Bromley's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN extensive fire took place at Forbes yesterday morning, when six houses in Sheriff-street were destroyed The fire originated in an unoccupied wooden building, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the last couple of weeks great progress has been made with a movement to form a fire brigade for Minmi. It is ever a year since the first meeting was held for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MOST disastrous fire occurred at Portland Oregon (U.S.A.) The outbreak originated in the Pacific Coast Elevator Company's Dock, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Stockton Fire Brigade on Thursday night held their annual ball in the Temperance Hall. The whole affair was a most pronounced success, some 40 couples or so…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →What is described as a serious fire broke out on board the steel ship Zola at Hobart on Thursday morning, but it was extinguished through the exertion of Captain Wavish, of the steamer Tambo, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday night about half-past 7 o'clock a fire occurred at Hamilton, near the Copper Smelting works, resulting in two four-roomed weatherboard cottages being burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A VERY large bush fire reached Nelson's Bay at about 12 o'clock to-day, and threatened total destruction to Thompson's Seabreeze Hotel, the telegraph office, and Public school…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A VETERAN non-commissioned officer was returning to a camp once, long after-hours, when a young sentry cried "Halt! who comes there?" "Friend" replied the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News of a disastrous fire at Portland (O.), has just been received here from Captain M. L. Porter, of the Prior Hill, through Mr. A. M. Gillam. Writing under date Portland, September 27, he says—"We…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ABOUT 9 o'clock last night a most disastrous fire took place in Young-road, Lambton, when a four-roomed slab house, with furniture and clothing therein, was entirely…
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