Great Oil Well Fire
The Bucharest correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that experts extinguished the Moreni oil well fire after fifty days, when damage to the…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
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The Bucharest correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that experts extinguished the Moreni oil well fire after fifty days, when damage to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Richard Bathelmess playe the leading role in Soul Fire, which will be featured at the Theatre Royal on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A destructive fire at the works of Vickers, Limited, at Dartmouth, at mid-night on Friday, destroyed buildings covering one and a half acre, doing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the role of a musical genius, Richard Barthelmess scored a big success in Soul Fire, which opened at the Theatre Royal to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A social function, to mark the installation of the Garford Hale motor fire engine, as supplied from the workshops of the Board of Fire Commissioners,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shortly before eight o'clock last night the Fire Brigade headquarters received a call to a fire in a galvanised iron building in Darby-street, near King-street, occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend now has a motor fire engine only a volunteer crow. The necessity for a permanent man was stressed by the Mayor of Wallsend on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Speakers at Saturday night's function in connection with the installation of the new motor fire engine related interesting, reminiscences of the old volunteer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Somebody evidently wanted to [?] down the town of Hokitika last night. There was great excitement when the Red Lion Hotel was found to be on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lambton Council has been advised by the Board of Fire Commissioners that the question of providing a motor [?]ose carriage for Lambton fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire was discovered shortly before eleven o'clock last night in a building on the Newcastle racecourse, used as a feedhouse, stables, and storeroom…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Residents of Cessnock were awakened at one o'clock this morning by the tolling of the fire-bell. A telephone message was received…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Firemen who were taking part in their annual ball in Cathedral Hall, Fitzroy, early this morning had leave the dancing, don uniforms over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Lysaght's M.P. asked Mr. Baddeley, the Minister, for Mines, if he was aware that the report of the southern check…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few minutes before one o'clock yesterday morning a Cessnock railway employee telephoned to the Cessnock fire station that a fire was raging in Gould…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →According to a recent report in "The Times," more than 100 forest fires have occurred in Canada this season, a number which approaches that of the disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Glowing, golden droplets of liquid fire, new and spectacular type of electrical discharge, were discovered recently by Dr. Irving Langmuir, C. G. Found, and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The scrub in the vicinity of Mammoth-street, Stockton, caught fire this afternoon, and a quarter of an acre of scrub was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fortnight ago Councillor Johnson asked the Lake Macquarie Shire Council to approach tho Board of Fire Commissioners for a motor hose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While painting the verandah railing of Willis's shop High-street West Maitland, yesterday afternoon Harold Lee ago 37 painter of Allan-street…
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