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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
280 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 14
A fire broke out at 8 o'clock this morning in the Asakusa district, the most thickly populated section of the city, and it is still burning. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortly after ten o'clock no Saturday night a fire was discovered in the residence of Mr. Charles Paget, Macquaric-street, Teralta, Word was sent to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The biggest fire recorded in Ports, mouth for years occurred last night Bt the Joinery works at Flathousequay. The machinery was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The sum of £217 19s 10d is to be handed to Mr. Walter Fair, the surviving victim of the tragic fire at South Maitland in November of last year…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out about ten o'clock tonight in a four-storied building at 832 Pitt-street, occupied by a number of firms. The flames wore first noticed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miss E. K. Riley, a tailoress, of Barklystreet, West Footscray, was burned to death in the fire in the five-storied brick structure known as Numan's Buildings,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The cricket final match, between B.H.P. and Fire Brigade, in the Raysmith Shield competition, was continued at the showground on Saturday afternoon, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →What might have been a serious tragedy—had it not been discovered in time—happened on Sunday morning, when the Tahiti, bound for San Francisco with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Had Mr. J. P. Conn (of Messrs. T. C. Frith and Company. Boolaroo) not heard the cry of a woman when on his way home at 11.30 last night, fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Adamstown Council has been notified by the Board of Fire Commissioners that it has considered the site brought under notice in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While Smith's box-making factory, St. Paul's-road, Newtown, was being destroyed by fire early this morning, the students from St. Andrew's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred to-night in a building at 126-128 George-street, Camperdown, occupied by a number of firms. The out-break apparently started in that portion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Safeblowers failed early this morning to blow open the strongroom at the Watersleigh post office, Militaryroad, Neutral Bay. THey left the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The recent fire, which gutted a building in the heart of Melbourne, and which was unfortunately attended by loss of life, has drawn attention to the necessity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Manado, lying in Athol Bight, caught fire this afternoon. The crew attempted to put out the fire, and were aided by detachments from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The damage caused by the fire on the steamer Menado at Neutral Bay will run into over £5000, The bulk of the copra burnt belonged to Dalgaty and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A three-storeyed building off George-street, West, Sydney, was extensively damaged by fire to-night. Singer's Sewing Machine Company occupied the lower floor,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great strides have been made in recent years in the application of chemicals to the fighting of fire, making it possible to extinguish the more modern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A mother and her two babies lost their lives and two young men were injured at a fire at the Anchor and Hope public-house. St. George's-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At a social reunion of lodges connected with No. 4 district I.O.I., held at the Masonic Hall. Hamilton, on Saturday night, the Rev. W. Touchell…
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