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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
280 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 14
One of the biggest and most spectacular fires in Sydney for many years broke out at Kirribilli Point this morning, when the seven floored brick…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle headquarters fire brigade received a call to the Criterion Hotel, Hunter-street, at 10.55 a.m. to-day, and the motor detachment turned out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What is regarded as one of the biggest fires Sydney has ever experienced occurred this morning, when the seven-storied building of the Pastoral Finance…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[?] bush fires have again broken out all over the western country, and the walls of flame are rapidly spreading, with great damage to the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Board of Fire Commissioners forwarded Merewether Council last night a report, by Inspector Hillier upon the fire protection in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day eighteen months' back, money was paid to a number of Newcastle public servants. Many received as much as £50. This comes as a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Newcastle fire at noon to-day was nipped in the bud, and a big blaze averted. Headquarters and Newcastle East…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out at Mackle and Co.'s general store and Wilkinson Bros. land and estate office at Wyong at 2.30 this morning. The place was well…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The "Yorkshire Observer," while regretting the destruction of wool in the fire in the Pastoral Finance Association's store in Sydney, says that although the world as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After strenuous efforts by hundreds of men extending over several days and nights the fires south of Dubbo are now well under control. On…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saturday night witnessed the end of the week's celebration in connection with the Hamilton municipal jubilee. The events, which took place in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The West Maitland Fire Brigade was called out at about nine o'clock last night to a fire in the park. When the brigade arrived it was found that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday 137 points of rain fell in the burning zone to the south of Dubbo. Although this was not sufficient to put out fires in logs and dead…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—The residents of the Stockton Garden Village have been called upon by the State Housing Board to pay a yearly fire insurance premium on their houses,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after two o'clock yesterday an outbreak of fire was discovered on the American 4-masted schooner Helen B. Sterling, lying in the Wickham Basin,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thrilling scenes were witnessed during a fire at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, in Cork. The lives of 170 little girls were in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires which broke out on the Helen B. Sterling in Newcastle harbor, and in Thalberg's Chambers, Hunter-street, were extinguished yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of 192, Marion-street, Leichhardt, was destroyed by fire early on Christmas morning, and the house…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A building at Cronulla consisting of two shops and a living room, was destroyed by fire this morning. Owing to there being no water and no…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A shocking fire at Sheffield is said to have been caused by the burning of gramophone discs. These gave off suffocating fumes, and four people were killed, and…
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