The Siege of Mafeking. Boer Fire Slackening
LONDON, Tuesday.—The Boer fire on Mafeking has slackened…
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Fires & bushfires, 1900
181 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 10
How It Feels Under Fire
"How does it feel to be under fire, and what are the sensations of a soldier on his way to the battlefield?" asks the writer of the article entitled "When Facing the…
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LONDON, Monday.—A great fire has occurred in Grave-street, Capetown. The Government offices narrowly escaped being burned. The archives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Engagement Near Karee. the Boers Occupying the Hills Attacked and Expelled. the N.S. Welshmen Engaged. Gallant Conduct Under Heavy Fire. the Enemy Break and Retreat
LONDON, Saturday.—Lord Roberts reports that on Friday, owing to the enemy's activity in his immediate front and the hostility being exhibited…
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The fire by which a large portion of the handsome warehouse of Messrs. J. R. Love and company, wholesale grocers and tea merchants, of Bathurst-street, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Sydney Letter. Nothing But Plague.—the Early Closing Act and Easter.—prayer and Humiliation.—an Extraordinary Sentence.—great Fire This Morning.—a Share Market Revival. Sydney
Plague, and nothing but plague—unless palgue panic. No matter what they are told to the contrary, the majority of the people believe the disease has got the city…
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The firemen engaged in the four competitions put in some really excellent work, considering that they laboured under a big disadvantage in having no water…
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A fire broke out in the editorial room of the Singleton "Budget" office yesterday morning at about half-past five o'clock, and within two hours the structure was a heap…
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A fire broke out on the E. and A. Company’s steamer Guthrie at Sydney yesterday. Shortly before 3 o’clock one of the crew accidentally upset a lamp in the forepeak, which contained the usual…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Road to Bloemfontein Under Boer Fire
Mr. W. Coombes, of Mosquito Island, has received the following letter from his son, Private C. J. Coombes:— Osfontein,…
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Mr. Walter J. Mathams narrates some admirable examples of British pluck in his paper in "Chambers' Journal" for March, on "The Spirit of Our…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Sydney Letter More Cases of Plague.—the Bushmen's Contingent.—the Griffen Tablet.—a Fire Station's Awkward Position.—the Ice Works Tragedy.—he Committed Suicide Off the Heads.—a Boiler Item.—stolen Postal Notes.—the Agricultural Show. Sydney
Some of us were flattering ourselves that the plague was over. Vain hope, as Saturday was distinguished by three cases, and yesterday by three more. The cases on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ammonia As a Fire Extinguisher
Probably the best fire-extinguishing liquid is aqua ammonia, without any addition whatever. We have personally had experience with the almost marvellous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Zealand Rough Riders Under Fire
LONDON, Wednesday.—The New Zealand Rough Riders (third contingent) under Major Jowsey, received their baptism of fire while making a…
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LONDON, Saturday.—It has been found that the fire was accidental, and that it broke out at 11 o'clock in the morning in a wooden house in a…
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My squadron (says the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" writing from Potgieter's Drift) recently celebrated their coming of age in front of the enemy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letter from Bloemfontein. Ex-constable Bartlett Writes. Under Fire for the First Time
Ex-constable Jas. Bartlett, late of Newcastle and Minmi, writing to Senior-constable Bowen, of Minmi, from Bloemfontein, under date March 17, says:—Just a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →International News. Disastrous Fire at Ottawa. Much of the City in Ruins. 15,000 People Homeless
LONDON, Friday.—A disastrous fire has occurred at Hull and Ottawa, in Canada. The fire started in the lumber and flour mills in Hull, and then…
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About noon yesterday a fire broke out in a two-roomed w.b. cottage, the property of Mrs M. Davies (widow), residing on Lambton-road. The fire was noticed by a little…
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Between 3 and 4 o'clock yesterday morning the kitchen of the Newcastle Hotel in Watt-street was destroyed by fire. Within five minutes of the…
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