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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1920

211 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 11

Scottish Forest Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1920 · page 4

Astonishing forest fires have occurred in Scotland, including Glentanar Forest. which threatened the destruction of Aboyne, a famous Deeside resort…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] CHAPTER XIX.—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 June 1920 · page 3

"I'm ready to start, and you are not," he said. "If I were to wait for you, I should lose me last train. Good-night. I shall meet you…

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Fire on a Liner. Auckland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1920 · page 5

The Federal Shire liner Westmeath arrived in port yesterday. The captain reports that on May 28, six days out from Panama, a fire broke…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] CHAPTER XX.—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 June 1920 · page 6

She heard a chiming clock in the house strike two, and a few seconds inter a slight creaking noise came to her cars…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] CHAPTER XX.—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 June 1920 · page 3

"You thought you'd got the better of us, did you mass? Well you made a mistake for once. And it you cry out or make yourself heard it will be…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] Chatter Xxi. (Continued)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 24 June 1920 · page 3

Hastily, in fear and trembling, expecting every moment to be startled by the noiseless entrance of either her stepfather of Zara, she made her…

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A Blaze of Color City Decorations

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 7

Never in tho history of Newcastle has the town been so crowded with people. When tho Prince left King Edward Park after luncheon there…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] CHAPTER XXIL—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 14

As he spoke he took from his pocket a cigarette-case, and, opening it, selected a cigarette, with, caressing lingers…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] CHAPTER XXII.—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 26 June 1920 · page 9

"I was to have been shot down a lift-well head first, I suppose," said he with apparent good humor. And he saw at once, in the…

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Fire on a Mail Lorry. Glen Innes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 June 1920 · page 6

Messrs. Glenister and Mackenzie's mail lorry was partly destroyed by fire this afternoon. The lorry had just returned with the Inverell mail, and 'was standing…

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Fire on the Shropshire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 June 1920 · page 5

Lloyd's reports that the s.s. Shropshire, bound for Australia, has returned to Liverpool, with fire in her cross bunkers…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] CHAPTER XXIII.—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 June 1920 · page 3

Lord H[?]ad, however, made no reply, and Bowkett turned once more to his step-daughter: "How was it you knew the address?"…

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[All Rights Reserved] Cross Fires Chapter XXIII.—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 4

"I want to see my brother. I must see him. Why on earth can't you understand that, and tell me the truth about him?"…

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Fire in Water

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 3

One of the prettiest inventions of modern science has now been applied to the problem of salvaging the cargoes of sunken liners. We cannot have flame under…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] CHAPTER XXIII.—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 3

"Yes We've been watching you for some time: and now we've got warrants. You'll come quietly, all of you, I hope?…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] CHAPTER XXIV.—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 July 1920 · page 6

"Well, it seems to me that everything is all right. And I'm most awfully grateful to you for having saved us as you did."…

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Cross Fires [All Rights Reserved] CHAPTER XXIV.—Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 6

"What there is to fine out about her is only enough to make her interesting. You forget she's no blood relation to this man, and her own…

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'Fire in Chaff'

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 July 1920 · page 3

Sydney Cohen writes: "To correct the statement in last night's issue of "The Newcastle Sun," that the outbreak of fire in chaff at this store was…

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Fire in a Circus

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 July 1920 · page 7

Fire caused a panic in Sanger's circus at Taunton. Fifteen hundred people stampeded to the exits. Two girls and two boys were killed…

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Fire Board's Visit Long-service Men's Dinner

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 July 1920 · page 4

The members of the Board of Fire Commissioners will visit Maitland on Thursday next, to make official inspections of Maitland fire stations, and to…

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