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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
484 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 25
There was a representative attendance at a meeting held at Fire Brigade headquarters, Newcastle, last night, to organise the Newcastle area in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Saturday. Trapped by flames, two women were forced to hang out of the window on the third story of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Efforts to discover the causes of bush fires and more effective means of combating them are being made by a Royal Commission, which opened…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage estimated at £30,000 was caused by a fire which broke out early yesterday afternoon in the building of Stewart Dawson and Company, at the corner…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Witnesses before the Royal Commission on bush fires to-day gave evidence as to sparks from railway engines causing fires. One witness said…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Royal Commission, with Mr. J. B. Cramsie as chairman, which was recently appointed by the State Government to inquire into the causes of bush fires,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire was discovered in a chest of drawers in a weatherboard cottage recently. The fire brigade attending were just about to leave when one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. G. Brown, district coroner, held an inquiry a the Cessnock Courthouse, yesterday, into the cause of the fire which occurred at the "Buttonhole"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. G. Brown, district coroner, conducted an inquiry at Cessnock yesterday into circumstances surrounding a fire which broke out early on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DAMP WELCOME TO THEIR NEW HOME.—British boys, who arrived by the Esperance Bay Mr. T. Hawkins, J.P., is in the middle of the group…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A fire which broke out in a building of five floors in Kent-street, near King-street, at a late hour to-night, caused several thousands of pounds worth of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As a result of the Amended Fire Brigades Act. Lambton Council's contribution, to the New South Wales Board has been reduced from £113 to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A message from Pekin says that Chinese soldiers interfered with the Standard Oil Company's Launch near Wu Hu. The United States destroyer Prebles intervened, and put an armed party aboard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At an early hour on Wednesday morning a private dwelling, occupied by W. D. Sandall situated at the corner of Fitzroy and Gavey streets, caught fire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two, fire engines a crowd of people, but no fire, was the scene outside Newcastle Hospital last night. Owing to the electric wire fusing a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Billy Sullivan is starred in "Rapid Fire Romance," to be screened at the Lyric Theatre on Monday. The story concerns a young man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Royal Commission which is inquiring injuring into the origin and methods of prevention of bush fires sat to-day. Henry Edward Kater…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The recent amendment of the Fire Brigades Act, reducing the tax on local governing bodies, is appreciated by Waratah Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anthony Nizitch, aged 35, a shopkeeper, was remanded at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having set fire to a shop at 10…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Headquarters fire brigade received a call at. 8 o'clock last night to a fire at Dann's Joinery works in Robert-street, Merewether. A motor engine…
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