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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
189 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 10
The city is in one of its "moods." This is apparent from the thousand and one signs that always betray that feeling that is supposed to be "in the air." The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The latest Italian communique states: There has been somewhat intense artillerying from Astico to the Plave. A British party south of the Assa River, by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire was discovered at Frank Wolfe and Co.'a general store at the corner of High and Elgin streets, West maitland, before two o'clock this morning. The West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With a are raging below decks, the American four-masted banquentine Koko Head was abandoned at sea. The first news of he loss of the vessel, which has made many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly before two o'clock, yesterday morning, an outbreak of fire was discovered in Wolfe and Company's grocery and [?]mongery store, at the corner of High…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The German attacks on Wednesday north of the Aisne were repulsed with terrible loss. Large numbers of German dead were left on the field…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Field-marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We entered a post south-westward of Merris, and brought back eleven prisoners. We also took seventeen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For some months, Adamstown Council has been agitating for the erection of a new and up-to-date fire station in its municipality. It appears that several letters have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By a fire which destroyed the shop of Charles Himmelferb, second-hand dealer, in Sussex-street, early this morning, his four children were suffocated, and Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Writing in the "New York Times" in March, Barr Ferree described the experiences of Rheims at the hands of the Germans…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A new light was thrown upon the Sussex-street tragedy of Friday morning last by the evidence at the inquest to-day. As the four victims crouched on the floor in fear…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire which broke out early this morning, in the surgery of Dr. R. G. Alcorn, in Bulwer-street, West Maitland, burned so forcely that in half-an-hour the building, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A surgery and dispensary in Bulwer-street, West Maitland, owned and occupied by Dr. R. G. Alcorn, was demolished by fire yesterday morning. At about 1.55…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Reuter's correspondent at French headquarters, referring to the Outry ravine advance, telegraphs that the ground on the right of Three Poplars was actually taken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The tar distillery and refinery of Do Meric, Limited, Steel-street, Newcastle, was the scene of a fire last evening, that resulted in the destruction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inspection of the tar distillery plant at the works of De Merle, Limited, Steel-street, Newcastle, proved that the damage occasioned by the outbreak of fire on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carrington Volunteer Fire Brigade smartly extinguished a fire at eight o'clock last night at Little Dennison-street, Carrington, in a bedroom in premises owned and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in his aviation report issued to-day reports: "The weather on Wednesday was cloudy, and the enemy activity was slight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The statements which have been made by a correspondent concerning some of the fire risks which exist in Newcastle demand close attention…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Broadmeadow and Hamilton fire brigades put out a small fire off Graham-road. Broadmeadow, this afternoon, on scrub-covered land where there was a stack of building…
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