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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
181 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 10
Captain Fugerland, master of the Russian ship Earl of Zetland, which arrived at Melbourne on Friday from London, reports an outbreak of fire among the cargo during the voyage. The ship left London…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—Vice-Admiral Seymour's position in Pekin is precarious. Water is scarce, and commissariat is lacking. The Boxer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Owen Betts, representing Messrs.. John Betts and Sons, of London, gave a highly successful fire extinguishing exhibition on the vacant block of land opposite…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One statement which is made in the report of the Royal Commission appointed in this colony to inquire into and report upon the subject of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From Capetown on Monday came the news that the ship America, which is expected at Newcastle to load coal for the West Coast, South America, caught fire at Table Bay on the 28th ult. The fire was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A report has been laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly giving the result of the experiments conducted by the Royal Commission, consisting of Professor…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock, the fire brigades were rung out from the several stations, When the fire was located, by telephone, at the Western…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shortly after midnight on Saturday evening the firebell rang out the alarm, and the members of the brigade, with their reel, were quickly on the scene. This was found…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.—A great fire has broken out in Hoboken Dock, New York. The full extent of the damage is not yet returned, but it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—Later details of the great fire in Hoboken Dock, New York, reveal the terribleness of the disaster. It appears that a carboy of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.— Many gruesome stories are told in connection with the disastrous fire at the Hoboken Dock, New York. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Lightning set fire to the stores of the Standard Oil Company, in New Jersey (U.S.). The damage is estimated at £1,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The steamer Saale has been re-floated. Twenty-four more bodies were discovered in her, bringing her deaths up to 60…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out in the shop-window of Mr. W. T. Poulton's Book Arcade yesterday morning, but before the flames had a chance to make headway they were suppressed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Friday evening the members of our local fire brigade held one of those social events in the halls of the Mechanics' Institute that tend so much to bind together the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The steamer Indraghiri, which was loading at Woolwich for Sydney, has been badly damaged by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred at Mr. J. Campion's tallow refinery on Wednesday night which completely gutted the building end its contents. Mr. Cunington who was in charge at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Americans have made a special study of Are extinguishing appliances, and the fire-station of this country gave benefited materially by their…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The crew of the Cymric, on the voyage between Queenstown and New York, battled for 36 hours with an alarming fire in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The defences of Canton are very formidable, and the river is guarded by submarine mines. The torpedo boats at Whampoa,…
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