Fire on the Steamer Aotea
According to a cable from Auckland the Shaw Savill and Albion Company's steamer Aotea, which left for London at 6 o'clock on Sunday morning returned to Wellington on Monday morning, an…
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Fires & bushfires, 1900
181 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 10
District News. Merewether. Fire Brigade
The members of this brigade met at the fire station on Monday evening for the purpose, of witnessing the unveiling of a splendid picture containing the photos of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letter From Trooper M'allister. Under Fire for the First Time
Ex-Constable M'Allister, who is serving with the Mounted Infantry in South Africa, writes to First-class Constable Turnbull from Howater, under…
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LONDON, Saturday.—During General Buller's recent advance movement, his artillery fire at Domkloof disabled two of the Boer big guns, and then so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The A. and S. Highlanders.—baptism of Fire
It has not been noted that the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which has suffered so severely in the great battle at Modder River, received its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Engagement at Kuilfontein. Australians Under Fire
LONDON, Monday.—The Inniskilling Dragoons, with Tour guns, the New South Wales Lancers, and two of Legge's and Holmes' companies of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attack on Jacobsdal. Boers Fire on the Hospital
LONDON, Monday. —Commandant Delarey disobeyed an order to retreat and attacked Jacobsdal on the 15th, and fired on the hospital, despite the…
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The following dispatch, dated January 15 received by the Cape "Times" from a correspondent with General French's force, throws light on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cronje's Position. Under Fire for Two Days. His Appeal for a Truce. Called on to Fight or Surrender. Heavy British Losses
LONDON, Friday Afternoon.—Fifty British guns bombarded Cronje's position on Monday, and Tuesday, adding greatly armistice in order to bury his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Fire Brigade Social
About 30 couples attended the social promoted by the members of the local fire brigade, and held in the Music Hall on Friday night. The Gibbs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cronje's Dilemma. Still Refuses to Surrender. Deaf to All Appeals. Will Fight to the Death. the Boers Under a Fearful Fire. Their Position Raked by Shot and Shell. News From Buller. Advancing Cautiously. Ladismith's Guns Heard. Cronje Will Not Surrender. Resolves to Fight to the Death
LONDON, Friday.—General Cronje declared, in answer to Lord Kitchener, that he would fight to the death. Lord Kitchener resumed the attack…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Buller's Advance. The Boers Strongly Placed. Under a Fearful Fire
LONDON, Sunday.—The Boers are tenaciously defending an extremely strong position at Grobbler's Kloof. After its tremendous cannonade the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Brigades' Demonstration
There is some talk of a decisive move being made shortly towards having another fire brigades' demonstration held in Newcastle, and with that object in view…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Second Attempt to Fire the Maori King
The attempt made at Brisbane to burn the steamer Maori king was shrouded in mystery. It was suspected that such would be made, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt to Fire a Transport Firing the Maori King
The cabled intelligence of a sensational episode on the Queensland transport Maori King, in which the lamp-trimmer attempted to set fire to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Storming of Pieters' Hill Five Days' Desperate Fighting. Facing a Murderous Fire. Our Men Mowed Down. Boers Powerfully Entrenched. Three Days' Fruitless Fighting. a New Position Stormed. the Boers' Left Turned. the Enemy Scattered
LONDON, Thursday.—After six day's hard fighting the British established themselves on the lower spurs of Pictures Hill. The Inniskilling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hamilton. Fire Brigade
A wet practice was gone through by the local fire brigade last evening, preparatory to the contests at Waratah on Saturday, in aid of the Patriotic Fund. Some half a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Brigade Events
The fire brigade events were keenly contested, 16 brigades competing. Mr. W. Taylor acted as starter, Captain Kempster and Hillier as examiners, Evans and Jones as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kruger and Steyn Under Fire. Vain Effort to Stay the Boer Stampede
LONDON, Saturday. — Presidents Steyn and Kruger were under shell fire during the fighting on the 7th. Kruger, with tears in his eyes,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. Various Plague Items.—the Colliery Accident at Balmain.—st. Patrick's Day in Sydney—school Children and Patriotism.—the Macquarie - Street Fire.—the Premier's Sprig of Shamrock.—the Fish Hawkers and the Plague. Sydney
There are various new plague items Most important is the meeting of the City Council on Friday, when in consequence of the scare got up by Alderman Norton, the…
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