Pole On Fire
A high tension electric wire one blown from its insulator near Newcastle High School to-day, and set alight to the pole…
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Fires & bushfires, 1928
543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 28
Wakened by Baby Escape From Shop Blaze SYDNEY
Awakened by their baby's crying about 4 a.m. to-day, Thomas Donohue, confectioner, of Glebe-road, Glebe, and his wife noticed smoke entering the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Not Christian" Fire Brigades Criticsied Wallsend Hurt
"Most unchristian," was the verdict of Wallsend's Mayor (Alderman Davies), referring to the Board of Fire Commissioners' attitude to fires…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire and Salvage Boat
A powerful new twin-screw motor fire and salvage boat has just been constructed for the Municipality of Rangoon for use on the Irrawaddy waterfront,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reckless Stowaways Pay Penalty for their Folly on the Jervis Bay Stowaways Gaoled Court Sequel to Jervis Bay Trouble Thrilling Story Deliberate Attempt to Set Fire to Steamer "Will Cut Officers to Pieces" Colombo
The eight stowaways on the Jervis Bay, on whom for nearly a week the eyes of the world have been focused, were to-day convicted on four of the five charges preferred against them, with the total imprisonment for each man of five months and two weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Fire Charge Against Occupier Quarter Sessions Trial Evi[?]
[?] paper saturated with kerosene, following a fire which was extinguished in a house at Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Threatened to Fire Constable Hit With Bottle Mob Attack Sydney, Saturday
While on beat duty in Mitchellstreet, Alexandria, about 6.30 p.m. yesterday, Constable Haig was attacked, knocked down, and struck…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →kurri Fire Station
Kurri Kurri is to have a new fire station. Kearsley Shire Council has been advised by the Board of Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Biplane on Fire Pilot Fatally Burned
A biplane, piloted by Captain Brager, accompanied by a mechanic, in aerial pageant at Vincennes, in France, caught fire. The wings burnt off, and it fell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mails Burnt Egyptian Train on Fire SYDNEY
The 1000 letters which were rescued when the mall-van of the train from Alexandria to Port Said. together with 143 bass of mail, which were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grass on Fire Cessnock Blaze
Cessnock fire brigade was called out to an alarm this afternoon. Grass was blazing on a vacant allotment in Wollombi-road. No…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Suspicious Fire
Mr. J. R. Scott, deputy coroner, held an inquiry at Sawyer a Gully yesterday afternoon, concerning a fire which destroyed a weatherboard cottage owned by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Sydney Sydney
A fire which broke out in a building in Arundel-street, City, to-night, caused considerable damage. The top floor, used an a gymnasium by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Liquor and Labor "Human Tin Hares" Rapid Fire Speech
"I am not going to take you away from the bottle. I am going to grab the bottle away from you," is what Mr. T. C. Day, of the Business and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Newcastle Bryant's Saddlers' Shop Damage Estimated at £4000
Damage estimated at £4000 was done when the rear portion of the premises of Messrs. R. Bryant and Sons, saddlers, of 233 Hunter-street, Newcastle was gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While Fire Blazed Hotel Till Raided Man Arrested Hunter-street Outbreak
During the excitement of a fire at R. Beyant's saddler's shop in the early hours of this morning, a man walked calmly into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire
A bush fire near the stone quarry on the Merewether hill, some distance from the nearest residence, was observed by Merewether Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Kurri Kurri
Mr. F. J. Wiley's drapery store in Barton-street, Kurri Kurri, was totally destroyed by fire at a quarter past twelve on Saturday night. Mrs. Wiley had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Saturday's Fire Evidence of Robbery
Inquiries made on Saturday into the fire which occurred early that morning in the premises of Messrs. R. Bryant and Sons, saddlery, of 233 Hunter-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer on Fire Passengers Landed Safely Thames Thrill London
With her oil bunker fearfully afire and flames and smoke belching from her ventilators, the 7800-ton steamer Carmarthenshire was beached at Erith…
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