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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
211 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 11
The visit of the Board of Fire Commissioners to the Newcastle district to-morrow will provide opportunity for public representatives to emphasise the importance of keeping fire-fighting equipment in line with the vast extension of property, both for business and residential purposes. The main…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. T. German, Divisional Officer, presided at a function, held at the Newcastle Fire Station last night, when long service medals were presented to sixty-three…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. E. H. Farrar, M.L.C. (chairman), J. F. Beswick, and R. Shepherd, Fire Commissioners, who are accompanied by Mr. H. M. Webb, secretary to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Rev. G. H. Russell, a Congregational minister at Matiock offers a new definition of the fires of hell. He says that the fires of hell do not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A telegram from Venice reports that an incendiary fire has destroyed the royal arsenal doing damage to the extent of £500,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Some time back I noticed in your paper that Kurri was going to have a steam motor stationed at the Kurri fire brigade station, but up to the present it…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—In your issue of Saturday, a letter appears under the above heading, signed 'Pro Bone Publico." It is admitted that a public utility is open to criticism, but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eillott's Ltd, main shop in Hunter-street is undergoing substantial alterations at present and two of the employees were commissioned last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early this morning the woodbending factory of James Munro and Co, at Rodfern was damaged by fire to the extent of £3000 The cause is a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Moscow wireless message states that 36 blocks of buildings are on fire at Saratoff, 500 mule south-east of Moscow. This is the tenth town already…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Damage estimated at nearly £10,000 was caused by a fire last night at a building occupied by Hosking and Co., Ltd., drapers in George-street West…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly before half-past five o'clock last evening a call was received at the district headquarters Fire Station to the Globe Colliery. District Officer Hillier turned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Russians have been shelling the outer forts, northward of Warsaw, since Friday The Polish authorities are returning the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Milan correspondent of the "Dally Chronicle" states that an anarchist incendiary campaign on an unprecedented scale is proceeding in all parts of Italy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire was discovered carly this morning on board the Melbourne, Steamship Company's steamer Dimboola. The vessel came from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Moscow wireless message, in deploring great losses through forest fires which are destroying villages and valuable fuel, urges the people to combat the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When the Melbourne Steamship Company's steamer Dimboola, berthed a[?] the company's wharf in Sydney this morning, on her arrival from Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A faulty portable fire stove was the cause of a little damage being done by fire at seven o'clock this morning to a kitchen at the rear of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night the tannery of Selawar, Limited, in William-street. Botany, was destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at over £20,000. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fire Brigade Cricket Club, winners of last season's final and premiership, will held the annual meeting to-night at the fire station, Cook's Hill…
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