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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
271 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 14
The coroner's inquest into the Flinders-street fire closed to-day, and resulted in an open verdict. Notwithstanding the Premier's undertaking, the inquiry was not of a general…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Colonial Secretary, in replying to representations made by Mr. Edden, M.P., on the question of special grants for the fire brigades at Merewether, Adamstown, and New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The State Fire Insurance Bill was read a first time. The Government do not intend proceeding further with it this session. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. W. HILLIER, secretary of the Newcastle Fire Brigades' Association, received a wire last evening from the Albury Fire Brigade secretary informing him that free passes had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT 12.30 Parliament House was surrounded with the full strength of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, with fire engines and other appliances complete…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke cut at the re[?] of Messrs. D[?]iton and Lewis' premises in Melbourne-street, East Maitland, yesterday morning shortly after 1 o'clock. The fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. SLEATH said, that as a matter of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FARLY on Thursday morning a fire was discovered on board the ship Socotra, lying at the Adelaide wharf, Miller's Point, Sydney. The carpenter of the vessel was the first to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE seventh annual meeting of this brigade was held at the fire station on Friday last. Mr. H. Hogue, vicepresident, occupied the chair, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The cargo in the forehold of the barque Socotra, which took fire on Thursday morning, has been more or less damaged by water, while that in the main and after holds are said to be uninjured. On Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out early this morning, completely demolishing a five acre block in Maitland-street. The fire was discovered in the stable of the Club House Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →According to a statement published in a New York insurance journal, the hose and hydrant have found a formidable rival in their work of fire extinction. The new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received from Capetown that the barque Beeswing, laden with coal from Cardiff, took fire in Table Bay on the 15th ult. It was supposed at one period of the conflagration that the coals…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—A fire broke out last night in Dover Castle, Dover, and resulted in serious damage being done to the ancient pile, the officers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A [?] resulting in considerable damage, broke out this morning at Eden's photographic framing works Valentine-lane, off George-street South. The building, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY morning between 3 and 4 o'clock a fire was discovered in the moulding and modelling shop of Mr. Laing Saunders in Hannell street, Wickham Mr. J. Nugent,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—In the fire at Wrottssley Hall the valuable library which contained the first folio Shakespeare— the edition of 1623—and many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A disastrous fire broke out in Hokitika early this morning. Eight business places, including the Golden Age Hotel and the Guardian newspaper office, were totally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A GRAND concert held in the School of Arts last evening, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to assist the West Maitland firemen to defray the expenses of their visit…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following firemen will represent the Maitland fire brigades in the demonstration and competitions to be held at Albury on the let and 3rd January next:—West Maitland…
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