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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 28
Portumna Castle in Country Gaheay, the Irish home of Lord Lascelles, which he and princess Mary are due to visit this weekend, was the scene of a some what serious fire early to-day. The stables and garage attached…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wallsend Fire Brigade received a call at noon yesterday to blazing bush on the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company's estate, near the Lake-road reservoir…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Firemen were called out yesterday to attend an outbreak of fire in a three-storeyed building in a laneway off Oxford-street. Paddington, not far from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The West Maitland Fire Brigade was called out at two o'clock yesterday morning of the fire that had of broken out at the rear of the first floor of Mrs. E. M…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Portu[?]na Castle, in County Galway, the Irish home of Lord Lascelles, which he and Princess Mary are to visit this week-end, has been the scene of a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A commercial aeroplane, carrying two passengers and mails from Barcelona to Perpignan, struck a mountain at Gerona, in Spain, and burst into flames. Pilot and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inferior hosing jeopardised the safety of several houses in Lambtonroad Charlestown yesterday. Serious danger from the burning bush to four…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The damage in the Woy Woy district fire is estimated at £30,000. The biggest loser was J. W. Browne, whoso ferney was totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About £30,000 damage was caused by a fire which destroyed the Coronation Box Factory, in Abererombie-street, Redfern. On either side of the factory…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Swept by a huge ring of bushfires, a 60 miles an hour gale and the temperature at times reaching 97.8 degress, Newcastle had a terrible time yesterday. Considering the wide circle of flame and the force of the wind, the actual damage to property was slight, but there were many narrow escapes in which life and property were in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clouds of dust and debris were swept by the fierce westerly gale over the Maitland district. The unpleasantness of the day was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British Australian Timber Company's sawmill at Nana Glen, in the Grafton district, was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday. Half-an-hour after work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Practically the whole of the district, from Port Stephens to Gosford, was ablaze yesterday, when bush fires, fanned by the strong westerly gales, literally raced through and destroyed the dry undergrowth and scrub-lands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday was the worst day ever experienced by residents of the coalfields, Bushfires were raging throughout the district and the flames, fanned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wangi and Lake View had a perilous time on Sunday from bush fires. On Friday night fires were to be seen in the thick timber a couple of miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Beaubassin, with 14,000 cases of petrol abroad, is on fire at Port Louis, Mauritius. A tog is pouring water on to the raging flames…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire which yesterday destroyed the Cumberland Paper Mills at Lane has thrown idle nearly 300 workers,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The weather at the week-end was responsible for bushfires in various parts of the outlying districts districts of Maitland. On Sunday, in the Paterson district, the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The residence of Mr. James McNulty, in Aberdare-road, Aberdare, was destroyed by fire at 2 30 a.m., yesterday, When the Cessnock Fire Brigade arrived on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three shops were completely destroyed and a school of arts hall was badly damaged, in a blaze at Cremorne yesterday, Firemen who attended from northern…
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