Train Starts Fire Muswellbrook
A fire started in a grazing paddock yesterday, through which the railway line passes near Aberdeen. It is supposed to have been caused by a spark…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
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A fire started in a grazing paddock yesterday, through which the railway line passes near Aberdeen. It is supposed to have been caused by a spark…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire was discovered shortly before half past three o'clock yesterday morning, in premises in Maitland-road, Islington, opposite the Wickham Park Hotel. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lake Macquarie Shire Council has decided to record its vote for Alderman Cornish for the position of country municipal and shire representative…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The deadly character of the London fog was illustrated lately by Sir Maurice A. Anderson, speaking at a meeting of the Sunlight League hi London. Within a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly before half-past one o'clock this morning a fire was discovered in the interior of the Melbourne Town Hall. The whole force of the brigades was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An explosion. the noise of which could be heard within a two miles' radius. occurred on the top floor of Burke House, at the corner of Burke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Council last night decidca to vote for its Mayor. Alderman Gardmer as a member of the Board of Fire commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is reported from Moscow that 25 persons were killed and fifteen injured by a petroleum gas fire at Baku. The flames shot up to a height of over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The town clerk (Mr. Percy), at last meeting of Hamilton Council, reported that he had communicated the candidates…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A spectacular blaze broke out in a two-storied brick building, at corner of Grafton and Morgan streets, Darlington, about 9.30 to-night. When the brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire in a lock-up confectionery shop in Parramatta-road, Annandale, carly this morning caused over £1000 damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An attempt was made at an early hour to-day to burn down the Wentworth Hotel. near Flemington cattle yards…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Stockton Fire Brigade's new motor engine had its first turn out on Saturday with its volunteer crew and did good service. A call was, received…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seeing flames in a room in a house at 48 Fleming-street, Wickham, occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzgerald, shortly before eleven o'clock on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weak mixtures are by no means an economy, if overdone, but a very real danger. The vast majority of fires originate from a back fire through…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nearly £20,000,000 is involved in a test case begun before Mr. Justice Rowlatt in the King's Bench London. Judgment will decide the liability of a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Some time ago the Newcastle City Council, headed by the Mayor (Alderman Light). made serious complaint to the Board of Fire Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For a number of years the Carrington Council has been making representations to the Fire Commissioners for the provision of more up-to-date…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chief Officer F. Jackson, of the New South Wales fire brigades, and a Fire Commissioner, will visit Cessnock to-morrow. The party,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →California has a vast and thus far unused and practically unappreciated source of power on tap in the geysers of Alexander Valley, writes the Dearborn…
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