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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
201 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 11
The District Coroner, Mr. T. H. Wilkins on P.M., conducted an inquiry at the West Maitland courthouse yesterday concerning the fire which occurred in Mr. Philip Bible's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terrific forest fires are reported from America. When at big fire occurs in that country of big things generally, it is something that deserves the title. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An alarming fire broke out on Wednesday night, July 22nd, at Highhouse Pit, Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland, and for a considerable time great anxiety existed…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Central Telephone Exchange in Paris has been destroyed by fire. The damages are estimated at £1,800,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after nine o'clock last night a fire broke out in the City Laundry, situated in Steel-street, Hamilton, resulting in the destruction of the building,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An outbreak of fire occurred at Mr. G. E. Hardy's store, Lambton Heights, on Monday evening. It appears that Mr. Hardy's assistant went to the bulk store…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The destruction of the Central Telephone Exchange in Paris has occasioned enormous inconvenience to subscribers in the city and in all parts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after ten o'clock last night a fire broke out in a three-roomed weather-board cottage in Pacific-street, Stockton, the structure being totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir FREDERICK HOLDER, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, took the chair at half-past two o'clock to-day. Mr. DEAKIN, the Prime Minister, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.—Twenty large steamers are detained on the Saint Lawrence River, in North America, owing to dense smoke from forest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Many cargo steamer Brightside, belonging to the Port Jackson Steamship Company, was extensively damaged by fire at an early hour this morning at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Copious rains have extinguished the great fires in the United States, except in the Adirondacks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ottawa correspondent of the London "Times," telegraphing to that journal on August 7, thus sums up the situation in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. H. Gibbs, of Branxton, had the misfortune to lose his fine dwelling and general store by fire on Friday afternoon. It is not known exactly how the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bonded store of J. Ireland, Limited, situated at the corner of Perkin and King streets, Newcastle, was the scene of an outbreak of fire at about half-past…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mrs. Dorcas Childs, a lady said to he 87 years of age, and who lived alone in a house in Adelaide-street, Raymond Terrace, was burned to death in a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire has broken out in the Koenlg's Colliery, Silesia, Prussia. It was first feared that 100 miners had been killed, but intelligence has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The breath of drought is being felt in many portions of the State, north, south, had west. In some places rain has not fallen for months; in others, the downfall…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In view of the fire at the Ayrshire colliery at Auchinleck, Scotland, it is interesting to know the results of a series of Investigations which has been undertaken…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Forest fires destroyed a railway culvert, and a trainload of fugitives, from Metz, Michigan (U.S.A.), was wrecked. Piles of railway sleepers became…
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