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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 28
"There was no one about and something must have come over me," said Ernest Lahiff, 25, laborer, when he was charged at Newcastle Police Court to-day with having stolen £3 19s 9d in cash from the Oxford Hotel on Friday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The liner Carmarthenshire, 7800 tons. outward bound for China, was proceeding down the river when she was found to be on fire. The liner was beached…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A weatherboard residence in Pretoria-avenue, Junce, occupied by Mr. H. Fawcett, was destroyed by a fire which broke out at 2.30 a.m. yesterday. Mr. and Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Albert Mitchell, aged 36 years, living at 11 Beresford-street, Wickham, and his three-year-old daughter. Nita were burnt when a fire occurred in Mitchell's motor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →That a deliberate attempt had been made to destroy a cottage at Flemington by fire was made plain in evidence which was given before the Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A motor lorry yesterday afternoon backed from Cumberland-street and struck the front wall of Cessnock Fire Station, in Edward-street…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Are district fire stations without permanent men necessary? Wickham aldermen do not think so. Alderman Croft said that a number…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Slight damage by fire was done to a partition on premises occupied by Mr. C. Preiffer, jeweller, in Vincent-street, Cessnock, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The sprinkler system gave the alarm when a fire started in Dalwood Chambers. Bathurst-street. Sydney, last night, and what might have been a very serious blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three men were burned to death when a 'plane crashed while flying love over the business district. The wreekage burned a city…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Chemical fire-fighting appliances have been added to the already fine equipment housed in the Newcastle District Fire Brigades' headquarters station at Cook's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two thousand textile strikers at Lodz invaded a mill, demolished the plant, burned the ledgers, and thrashed two managers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock fire brigade was called out to an alarm from Anstey-street, Cessnock, about 9.30 this morning. The rear of an unoccupied cottage, owned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. J. W. McDermott and his stepdaughter, Miss Ferguson, had a narrow escape from being incinerated when a weatherboard cottage at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A weatherboard cottage, situated at the corner of Darby and Patrick streets, Newcastle South, owned by Mr. J. Archer, and occupied by Mr. J. W. McDermott…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After taking two days to get a keen edge on an Old knife, Bernard Patrick Sheridan, 46, a blacksmith, of Cabramamtta, poured a bottle of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A riot occurred at the Fort Gloucester jute mills, in the Howrah (Bengal) area, owing to the dismissal of four men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three additional street fire alarms are to be provided for Hamillon; two of them in the south portion of the area. The request for additional…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alderman Smith recently drew attention at Lambton Council to the condition of the street in front of the fire station…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A gay Bohemia, with the blaze of color from frocks mingling with lighting effects in a continually changing rainbow, was the scene at the French Ball in the Palais Royal last night, when 800 dancers took part in the celebration of France's festival…
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