Bridge on Fire Maitland Outbreak
West Maitland fire brigade was called to an outbreak on the Long Bridge this afternoon. Portion of the docking was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1929
760 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 38
CRASHED Fugitive Stolen Car Police Fire Melbourne
Several shots were fired by members of the police motor patrol while chasing a stolen motor car through Richmond shortly…
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Kearsley fire brigade was called about 4.165 a.m. to-day to attend a fire at the rear of a four-roomed weather-board cottage in Caledonia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Burns Girl Played With Fire "ACCIDENTAL"
"Accidental death while playing with fire," was the venlict of Mr. J. T. Richards, the coalfields' coroner, at the conclusion of an inquest at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£20,000 FIRE Incendiarism Suspected in Melbourne Timber Mill Destroyed MELBOURNE
According to statements made to the police by A. Sampson, night watchman, incen[?]rism is suspected as the cause of a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Timely Save Melbourne Fire Outbreak This Morning Melbourne, Saturday. 1 a.m
Shortly after midnight a fire broke out in the timber yards of a Moore and Sons, at South Melbourne. A severe conflagration was feared, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Fires Outbreak at Cessnock Shop Destroyed
There were three early morning fires in Cessnock during the week-end. The origin in each case was not discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Tighe's Hill
Thought to have been caused by the electric wires fusing, a fire occurred in the root of a two-storey house in Elizabeth-street. Tighe's Hill, last night. Tighe's…
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A fire broke out, shortly after 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, in the kitchen of a four-roomed weatherboard cottage in Pokolbin-street, Kearsley, owned and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Delayed by Fires Kookaburra Search Party MELBOURNE
The Defence Department officials expect that the land party, under Flight-lieutenant Eaton, will reach the Kookaburra to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →107,520 VOTES Mater Leads Country Poll Fire Queens Sydney
Waratah Mater Misericordine Hospital's Queen (Mrs. C. Atkinson), with 107,520 votes, is head of the country poll in the Fire Queen's competition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Don't Mind Me!" Woman's Self-sacrifice Motor Coach Fire London
Lying by the side of the road, with her clothes burned off, a woman refused the. attention of doctors, saying, "Don't mind me…
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A one-roomed unoccupied shop in Aberdare-street, Aberdare, was destroyed by fire at 12.53 a.m. yesterday. The Cessnock Fire Brigade was on the scene…
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Fire destroyed three shops in Cooma-street, Yass, yesterday morning, and other premises were saved only after a strenuous fight by the fire brigade, assisted by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mail Coach on Fire Five Persons Killed. London
Five supporters of the Reading Football Club are dead, and 14 seriously injured, as the result of a motor coach overturning and bursting into flames near…
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A quantity of rubbish which had accumulated in drain at Hunter-street West, near the Bank Corner, caught fire about 7 o'clock last night. It was extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fire CALCUTTA
A European woman, Mrs. Butler, who kept a confectionery shop in Niana Tal, in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, was burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Greta Two Shops Destroyed
The shops, under one roof, in High-street Greta, one occupied by Mr. H. Humphreys, tailor, and the other unoccupied, were destroyed by fire late on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Timberyard Fire Police Investigating Sydney
The police are making investigations into to a fire which broke out a[?] the [?]hubar yards of M. McKenzie, Ltd., Bal[?]ore, this morning. Fortunately the outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Inquest Gelignite Found Maitland House "Malicious," Says Coroner
The adjourned inquest into a fire which destroyed portion of a house at Campbell's Hill. West Maitland, was continued to-day…
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