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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1907

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Fire Brigades Legislation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 4

Mr. J. A. Hogue, the State Chief Secretary, is evidently giving consideration to the question of fire brigades legislation. He has…

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Fire in Melbourne. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 5

A fire broke out shortly before three o'clock this morning at the car house of the St. Kilda and Brighton electric tram line at Elsterwick. There was a poor…

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Fire at Darlington. Factory Destroyed. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 5

A fire, which resulted in the total destruction of a large factory and the partial destruction of a private dwelling, occurred at Newtown this afternoon. The…

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The Montreal Fire. Her Majesty's Sympathy. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 5

Queen Alexandra has, through the Earl of Elgin, Secretary of State for the Colonies, telegraphed to Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada,…

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The Kanowna Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1907 · page 4

The Victorian Marine Board has considered the reports concerning the fire which recently occurred on the steamer Kanowna. In his resort Mr. Hake,…

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Fire in London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—A fire in the City-road, London, destroyed three large warehouses, and damaged other buildings…

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Socialist Colony. Destroyed by Fire. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 5

The buildings of the Socialist colony established in New Jersey by Mr. Upton Sinclair, the author of the sensational novel "The Jungle," have…

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The Netherton Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 4

When the steamer Airlie, when arrived at Brisbane on Wednesday, was at Singapore, the steamer Netherton, which was burnt out while loading at Aroe Bay,…

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Plattsburg. Fire Brigade Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 3

A representative meeting of the members of the local fire brigade and the aldermen of Wallsend and Plattsburg was held in the fire brigade…

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Fire in New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—A destructive fire has occurred at Sheepshead Bay, New York. Eleven racehorses were burnt,…

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Fire at San Francisco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—A disaster has occurred at San Francisco. A fire broke out in an Italian lodging-house, and the building was…

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Fires on Ships

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1907 · page 4

Reports by the nautical expert committee of the Victorian Marine Board in respect to the fires on the ship Irish Monarch, on December 30, and the steamer…

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Fatal Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The power house of the metropolitan street railway in New York has been burnt down…

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Fire Brigades' Association. Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 5

The annual meeting of the Northern Fire Brigades' Association was held at the Hamilton Fire Station last night. The chair was occupied by the president,…

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Fires at Harbin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Three fires have occurred within a week at Harbin, Manchuria. The Chinese district and the whole…

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The Fire Brigades' Notice

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 4

The Northern District Fire Brigades' Association can scarcely be condemned for the decision it has arrived at, that unless the financial…

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The King's Fire Brigade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 6

Buckingham Palace is to be equipped with its own fire-fighting appliances and its own brigade. King Edward saw how possible it was for an outbreak of fire…

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Disastrous Fire. Suspected Arson. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 5

A tenement house in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, has been destroyed by fire, and thirteen of the occupants were burned to death, while…

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Fire in a Cllliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—A great fire occurred at the pithead of the Dodworth Colliery, near Barnsley, Yorkshire…

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Fire on a Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 April 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—A fire occurred in the main hold of the steamer Aparima, 5706 tons, while bound from Calcutta to New Zealand ports, via Sin…

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