Fire Board Four Votes for Cornish
Newcastle City Council, at its meeting last night, authorised that its formal votes bo recorded for Alderman Cornish as country…
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Fires & bushfires, 1923
454 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 23
Fire at Mrs. Loebel's
At eight minutes past six o'clock last evening the West Maitland Fire Brigade received a call to an outbreak of fire at Mrs. E. Loebel's millinery establishment…
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At eight minutes past six last evening, the West Maitland fire brigade received a call to an outbreak of fire at Mrs. E. Loebel's millinery establishment in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Bug Suspected Botany Outbreaks SYDNEY
The police are investigating out-breaks of fire in Lurland-street Botany. Within the past 16 days there have been eight outbreaks in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Belmont Fires Station and Shop Sunday Morning Flames
Two fires occurred at Belmont on Sunday morning, one of which destroyed the railway station. The other was at a lock-up shop,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires at Belmont. Railway Station and Shop. Incendiarism Suspected
Belmont was the scene of two fires of an early hour yesterday morning, resulting in the destruction of the stationmaster's office and other buildings on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Damage Railway Compensation
The offer of compensation mada by the Railway Commissioners to the Cardiff orchardists who suffered recently by bush fires, having been considered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →C/r on Fire Singleton Road Claze SINGLETON
A star[?]ing experience befell Mr. Archie Dennett, of Muswellbrook, while travelling with his wife and child by motor car to Singleton. About…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Asylum Heavy Death Roll American Disaster VANCOUVER
A New York message Bays that Ward's Island lunatic asylum was partly destroyed by fire. Twenty-two inmates and three malo…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Asylum on Fire. Thirty Patients Killed. Inmates Fight Firemen. (Australian Cable Association.) New York
Trapped in their cells, thirty maniacs perished, more than a hundred were severely burnt, and twenty-two patients were missing, after a fire which destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Fire in Adelaide. Adelaide
One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Adelaide occurred this morning, when Duncan and Fraser's, Limited, well-known motor works, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Merriwa Grazier's Heavy Loss MUSWELLBROOK
The residence of Mr. A. W. Gardiner, of "Bow Glen," was burnt to the ground during the absence of both Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. Mr. Gardiner had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Bush Fires Township Illuminated
Bush fires have been raging on the Sugar Loaf range for the last month. The mountains were hardly discernible on Saturday, the smoke being so…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Melted Under Fire The Antwerp Forts Give Way "Over the Bridges to the Country" No. 9.—Churchill's Memoirs. Copyright
I NOW found myself suddenly, unexpectedly and deeply involved in a tremendous and hideously critical local situation which might well…
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Victoria is just emerging from an epidemic of bush fires in various country districts, which caused no inconsiderable damage. Many farmers and settlers are…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire at a Match
The match between Liverpool and the Bolton Wanderers, at which there were 15,000 spectators, was played under the most remarkable conditions. During the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Adamstown. Catholic Church Damaged
Damage was caused to the Roman Catholic Church and contents, in Lockyer-street, Adamstown by fire on Saturday evening. The church is a brick…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Interrupted Games Church on Fire Good Save at Adamstown
The return games tournament between teams from the Hamilton and Adamstown fire stations was to have been played on Saturday night at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Danger Toronto Wants Brigade
The Lake Macquarie Shire Council decided at its meeting to comply with the Toronto urban area committee's request to approach the Fire Brigades' Board, attend a public meeting to be held at Toronto at a later date for the purpose of giving information concerning the possibilities of having a brigade in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Violence in the Ruhr Better Feeling Growing Angry Germans French Fire on the Crowd LONDON
Reuter's agency learns that, so far as the Ruhr railway situation arising from the negotiations between Generals Godley and Payot are concerned, the matter is now considered settled between the British and French Governments…
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