Lambton. Fire Brigade
The members of the fire brigade held a successful social in the Music Hall on Friday night. There were present between 40 and 60 couples. Dancing commenced at 8.30…
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Fires & bushfires, 1899
209 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 11
The Fire on the Patria. the Liner Abandoned
LONDON, Saturday.—The Patria's towlines were burnt, and she had to be finally abandoned…
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The fire alarm was sounded in West Maitland last evening at about hall-past eight o'clock, and a general rush of firemen and civilians was made for Campbell's Hill, an…
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The house which was burned down at Farley on Tuesday evening was the property of a railway fettler named William Hodgins, who was away up the line at the…
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This concert won held in the School of Arts on Monday night, when the members of the Fire Brigade were rewarded by a bumper house, showing that the brigade's services in…
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Dated October 15 last, a report from New York is as follows:—The Long Island Bound steamer Nutmeg State was totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning while on her way from Bridgeport…
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The advent of a very marked heat wave his been accompanied by a number of very disastrous fires in the country districts. The town of Warren has been almost burnt to…
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Between 8 and 9 o'clock last, night this suburb of Lambton was thrown into a great state of excitement when it was reported that R. Sneddon's hotel was on fire. The hotel is…
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About quarter to 7 o'clock last evening a fire broke out in a corner of the publishing room at the rear of the "Newcastle Herald office. A number of the members…
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The fire which occurred at Warren last night effected much greater destruction than was at first supposed, although it was at one tine thought that the whole town…
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A deal of commotion and uneasiness was caused on the harbour and in the city yesterday afternoon at about 3 o'clock, when from Fort Scratchley was fired the…
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The town of West Wyalong was all excitement yesterday after the fire. The main street presented a sorry spectacle, the throroughfare being completely blocked…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A great fire occurred in Philadelphia. (U S.) yesterday, the premises of the great publishing firm of J." B. Lippincott and Company being destroyed…
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Stafford's sawmills and electric light works have been destroyed by fire The fire spread with great rapidity, and the buildings were gutted within half an hour,…
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This evening a bedroom of a house in Mount-street, North Sydney, was burnt out. At 8.15 a store in Hay-street, occupied by Henry Bent, bag merchant, was discovered…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Later details of the recent fighting at the Modder River states that late on Tuesday afternoon the 62nd Battery of Artillery…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The enemy shelled the British ambulance at the Modder River battle, professing to be unacquainted with the significance of…
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"LONDON, Saturday.—While out reconnoitring on Monday the New South Wales Lancers drew the enemy's fire eight miles north of the east Modder…
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The ninth annual meeting of this brigade was held at the fire station on Friday. Mr. H. Hogue, vice-president, occupied the chair, and there was a…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Further particulars of the fighting near Spytfontein state that the Boers at the foot of the eastern spur of the kopje…
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