Firemen Busy Midnight Blaze
Last midnight the headquarters fire brigade, under District , Fire Officer Hillier, and the Merewether brigade under Captain Day, battled unsuccessfully with a fire in a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1918
189 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 10
State Fire Brigades. Sydney
The report of the State Auditor-General in regard to the administration of the Fire Commissioners, and the transfer of Mr. Lambourne from Broken Hill to…
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A fire this evening destroyed the Railway Commissioners' tarpaulin shed at Eveleigh, after resisting the efforts of the full force of the brigades for nearly an…
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A fire, resulting in severe damage, broke out early this evening, from causes at present unknown. The building is one of three stories, situated at the corner of…
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A grass fire on land off Railway-street, Wickham, was extinguished by the Wickham fire brigade, under Second-class Fireman Lock, this morning, before it was able…
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It is reported from Paris that a violent artillery duel eastward was heard in that city on Sunday night. The clouds were brilliantly illuminated…
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The biggest disaster of the century has befallen Fez, the capital of Morocco, where a great fire has destroyed 9000 square yards in the centre of the commercial quarter of…
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Sir,—The Broadmeadow Fire Station needs to be improved in several directions. The building, which is in the centre of a big population, is cramped. For instance, the…
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A fire broke out early this morning in Vincent-street, the main street of Cessnock and completely destroyed four buildings. They were single storey weatherboard…
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Cessnock was yesterday the scene of a destructive fire, that would have assumed much larger proportions but for the splendid work of the Cessnock Fire…
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Mr. G. Brown, the District Coroner, held an inquiry at the Cessnock Courthouse, yesterday, concerning the fire in Vincent-street on July 23, when three premises…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Behind the Vesle Great Fires Raging London, Monday Night
Mr. Herbert Bailey, "Daily Mail" correspondent with the American army in France, says that great fires are illuminating the sky for miles behind the Vesle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fierceness at Fismes Enemy Break and Run Wading Vesle Under Fire LONDON, Wednesday Night
The correspondent of "The Times" at American headquarters, telegraphing yesterday, states that the enemy is desperately needing more time to evacuate his supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Across the Vesle Enterprising Sammies Exposed To Merciless Fire LONDON, Sunday night
Reuter's correspondent at American headquarters, describing the fighting in the Vesle Valley says: "The enemy bad most methodically thought out the problem of holding…
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The Australian Official Correspondent telegraphs:—On the second day of the great attack south of the Somme, the Australians advanced their line from the…
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The German long-range gun in the Foret de Gobain, bombarding Paris, is under Allied artillery fire. The Foret do Gobain is near Chaulnes…
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Scarcity of firewood has lately been experienced in some of the suburbs around Newcastle. The reason is ascribed to the fact that the Steel Works have been…
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Hamilton householders are worried over the wood problem, and a few have hit on it plan to keep the home fires burning, until the depleted stocks at the wood yards are…
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On Friday evening In the West Wallsend fire brignde shed the members of the local; fire brigade honored Ptc. D. Regan, who returned from the front about three montns…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scully and I.W.W. "Political Move" Suggested Chemicals and Fires Sydney
The No. 3 Jury Court, in which the I.W.W. Commission is sitting, was crowded again to-day. Following tho usual procedure, the police allowed as much of the…
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