Town Helps Prizes and Displays Blaze of Lights
"What has Maitland town done for the show?" The secretary is best able to answer that question. "Special prizeal" he said,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1925
435 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 22
Fire on British Cable Ship Brush with Moors London
A MESSAGE from Gibraltar sates that the Moors bombarded the British cable ship Amber, which was repairing the…
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The sky was brilliantly illuminated, and the Here visible for miles ground on Saturday. when the stables at Messrs. Littelman's Ben Ean…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Lambton
While the benzine tank of a motor lorry standing in a garage attached to the premises of Mr. G. Taylor, in Dickson-street, Lambton, on Saturday night, was being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →House Destroyed Fire at Aberdare
A wooden house, owned and occupied by Margaret Hurst, was with its contents, totally destroyed by fire about 6 a.m. on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in King-street
In response to a call from a street fire alarm, a motor detachment from headquarters, under District-officer Hillier, went to the scene of a fire at 108…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Explosion and Fire Grocer on Trial SYDNEY
An explosion, followed by seven distinct fires, formed the basis of a charge at the Central Criminal Court to-day, when Alfred Symond…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gutted by Fire Famous Wax Works LONDON
Madam Tussand's waxworks, one of the sights of London, were gutted by fire to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires in Tokio
Tokio was yesterday the scene of three conflagrations. One was in the neighbourhood of the Uyeno station, and has already destroyed more than 500 houses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Florida
A message from Palm Bench, Florida, reports that two big tourist hotels have been destroyed by fire. The property loss amounts to 4,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Alarms Wanted
The need for more fire alarms in Cessnock is an urgent one. Recently two buildings were completely destroyed before the arrival of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ghost Gets Shock Maitland Man Fires Gun
Maitland's ghost, it is stated, nearly became an angel last night, when he was made the target for a gun in the hands of an enthusiastic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Streaks of Wax Effigies of Great Tussaud's Fire London
The Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, is no longer the immaculate figure of yore. His countenance is no longer recognisable, and his famous clothes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Tussaud's Valuable Relics Burned Chamber of Horrors Saved (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Madame Tussand's famous war works in Marylebone have been destroyed by fire. There was no chance of saving any of the exhibits…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Fires of Fate"
"Fires of Fate," which will be screened at the Strand Theatre, on Monday, is based on the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Tussaud's
The damage caused by the fire which destroyed Madame Tussand's famous wax-works is estimated at a quarter of a million sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tokio Fire
It is reported from Tokio that unofficial estimates show that there were 52 or 53 casualties in the big fire, and that the damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our New Zealand Letter Wellington, March 12. a Film Blaze
At a seaside picture palace here on Tuesday last a fire broke out in the operating box, destroying three spools of film, badly damaging two machines and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motor Car Fire Maitland Blaze
Some excitement was caused in Devonshire-street, West Maitland, on Saturday night, when a car belonging to the Carrington Motor Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Cardiff
A five-roomed cottage, situated in Mirambung-road, Cardiff, was destroyed by fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. The noise of the flames…
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