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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
415 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 21
Stocks of oil and ter are blazing fiercely at De Meric's tar distillery behind the Steel Works. There appeared to be no hope of quelling the flames. A huge column of black smoke rolling slowly for hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle firemen on Saturday afternoon were called upon to fight a fire that presented difficulties and dangers unknown in the usual structural…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out in the Public Works Department buildings at Green Rocks, where the Chichester pipe line passes under the Hunter River. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To assist the funds of the Hamilton and Broadmeadow branches of the Australian Labor Party, the members, under the presidency of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is impossible yet to estimate the full extent of the damage at the B.H.P. by-products oil distillery on Saturday. An official of the company…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the inquest on Saturday concerning the death of Stanley Travers, commonly known as Stanley Howard, aged 21, a dairy hand in the employ…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Joseph Maher, who was represented by Mr. W. J. Enright, pleaded not guilty at Maitland Quarter Sessions this morning before Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A thrilling cinema episode in real life occurred at the Imperial Picture House. Kilmarnock. MacLean, the operator, suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The case at East Matland sessions, in which William Joseph Maber was charged with arson in connection with the fire at Kurri Kurri on June 3,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Leslie Faulkiner was charged, at the Maitland Quarter Sessions this morning, before Judge White, with having, at Kurri on July 13, 1924…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hampered by fumes from burning chemicals, and by a falling water suply, firemen had a hard fight today at Elliott's chemical works at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great danger was associated "with the outbreak of a disastrous fire at Elliott Brothers' chemical works, Balmain, to-day. The Epsom salts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Leslie Faulkner was charged with having, at Kurri Kurri, on July 18, 1924, maliciously set fire to a dwelling in his possession, with intent to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The wheel of a [?]ple cart collapsed when the vehicle was being driven along Hubbard-street, Islington, last night, and an acetylene heater exploded, resulting in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Damage to the extent of about £20 was done by fire to the public stand In the paddock on Newcastle Jockey Club's racecourse at Broadmeadow last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire that might have destroyed the grandstand at the Broadmeadow racecourse, broke out last night, and was fortunately extinguished by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →W. Booth, the well-known horse trainer, told the Parramatta district coroner to-day that when a fire broke out in his stables at Rosehill there were 30…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Although shopping week in Hamilton will not begin until Monday, signs were not wanting last night in Beaumoal-street—the business…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →According to information received by the police there were five distinct outbreaks of fire, the shop of Alfred a Trickett, grocer, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Early this morning the Glebe Fire Brigade was called to the furniture factory of E. W. Beard and Company, Parramatta-road, by an automatic alarm. It…
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