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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 10
The heat to-day was again intense, and bush fires are raging furiously over the Strezlecki Ranges and to the south of Warragul, where the dairying settlements are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE annual social and meeting of the above was held at the fire station on Monday evening, and proved a successful gathering. The members had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The R.M.S. Britannia brings word that H.M.S. Edgar, sister ship to the Royal Arthur, on her way to the China station, called at Colombo and reported having an exciting adventure while coming through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A big fire is still raging in the south of Warragul. It is approaching within two miles of the township. Assistance is being sent out to the farmers in the neighbourhood,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the meeting of the Carrington Council last evening, the Mayor (Alderman H. Graham) reported that a deputation had waited upon him that afternoon pointing out that a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The members of the West Maitland Fire Brigade Board held a meeting at the Town Hall yesterday morning. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Crothers) in the chair,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE annual procession and dinner in connection with the West Maitland Fire Brigade took place last evening. The procession left the station at about 8 o'clock in the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The annual dinner in connection with the West Maitland Fire Brigade was held in the engine room, at the brigade station on Tuesday evening. Mr. Superintendent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A most disastrous fire has occurred at Spokane, Washington (U.S.A.), resulting in great loss of life. The fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE annual meeting of the Newcastle West Fire Brigade was held at the station last evening. There was a fair attendance of members, and the president (Mr. A. B. Noel)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—A cable from the Soudan states that the Egyptian gunboats advanced up the Nile past Metemm[?]h as far as the sixth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BUSH fires are raging nearly all over the country districts, and much damage is being done. The Warragul and Gippsland district are surrounded by fames, which are so fierce…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The weather has been very hot again to-day, although cooler than yesterday. The fires around parts of Gippsland are still proceeding. Accounts of appaling losses are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DURING the four worst days of the smoke baze on the Victorian coast no fewer than 900 rockets were used at Cape Otway station alone in order to locate the position of the lighthouse for passing ships…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FURTHER reports of disaster through bush fires in Gippsland are to hand this afternoon. The Melbourne Fire Brigade is fighting the flames at Korumburra, where the township…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ABOUT 3.30 a.m. on Sunday a fire occurred in the detached kitchen of an eight-roomed house situated at the corner of Henry and Union streets, Tighe's Hill. The building,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cape advises to hand state that a fire occurred among the sulphur cargo on board the well-known ship Lech Renza at Port Eligaboth on the 3rd January, In response to three tugs went to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—During a big fire at Boston yesterday six firemen were killed through being buried beneath falling walls. Many other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ANOTHER fire, which at one time threatened to sweep the block of buildings on which it occurred, broke out in the tobacco factory of Messrs. Moss, White, and Company, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BUSH fires have been burning fiercely on both sides of the town of Jumbunna. Fifteen miners' residences have been destroyed on the limits of the town, and the families…
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