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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
454 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 23
Reuter's Agency at Osako states that the total interruption of the telegraph telephone bad railways indicates the extraordinary severity of the earthquake in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wireless message from Tomioka, Japan, to the Radio Corporation in America, reports that the Tokio fire has been extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"There are no funds at present available for the provision of a new fire station for Waratah, but the matter will receive further…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Apart from the dependents of those who lost their lives in the Bellbird disaster, great hardship has been indicted on all the men employed in the colliery. They are out of work, and the other pits are all full-handed. In addition to this, their tools, worth a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reuter reports that the Brussels Observatory states that earthquake shocks have continued in Japan. Seismographs at the observatory registered three more shocks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Board of Fire Commissioners has informed Hamilton Council that difficulty had been met with in regard to the proposed purchase of land…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The report of Mr. Hindmarsh, chief Inspector of Mines, regarding the Bellbird disaster, is said to throw interesting new light of the tragedy. It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The report of Mr. J. P. Hindmarsh, Chief Inspector of Coal Mines in connection with the Bellbird disaster was tabled in the Legislative Assembly this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alderman Rao brought before the Wallsend Council meeting the necessity for a motor fire engine at Wailsend. Wallsend, was Justly entitled to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Router's special correspondent at Osaka states that no description could do anything approaching Justice to the awful experience of Yokohama, where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A disastrous are occurred this afternoon in two-storied brick promises in Petrie Bight occupied by the Queensland Manufacturing Company Ltd. The building…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The petrol pipe of the Marble Bar omnibus broke in High-street near the are station yesterday afternoon shortly after five o'clock, and the engine burst…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The report of the Royal Commission on fire brigades and fire prevention states that the direct material loss from fires in Great Britain average about £12,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported from Berkeley, California that two students of the University of California have been killed and hundreds of houses destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Waratah Council was informed last night that the Board of Fire Commissioners could not accede to the council's request that Waratah…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The gloom attending the appalling disaster at Bellbird Colliery again cast its spell over Cessnock to-day, when the inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of 15 of the victims, whose bodies were recovered, was resumed at the Cessnock Police Court before the Coroner, Mr. G. Brown, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eke, questioned by Mr. Rogers. said that when dust mixed with stones it was not dangerous. To his knowledge there was no dangerous dust at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Italian Ambassador had a wonderful escape at Yokohama. He was in the Italian Consulate, in the Russo-Asiatic Bank building, on the top…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Yokohama message states that some idea of the intensity of the fire which followed the earthquake is obtainable from the fact that the steel lining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While returning to Clarence Town from Wallarobba, Mr. J. Campbell's car was burnt. He was travelling over a rough piece of road and one…
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