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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
914 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 46
Police at Madura, near Madras, wore compelled to fire three times to disperse crowds of Congress demonstrators, who picketed country liquor shops. Eight were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Severe rioting occurred to-day in Cairo and on a smaller scale in Port Said. The police were aided by troops in dispersing the mobs, which hurled stones, bottles and other missiles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When a hostile mob of 2000 persons was picketing a Government liquor warehouse at Jubbulpore, Central India, the police fired on them, and 15…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire which broke out at Quaker's Hill yesterday morning, destroyed the railway station, despite the efforts of the Blackton Fire Brigade to extinguish the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Marlborough Hotel, on the corner of Missendon-road and King-street, New town, was severely damaged by fire to-night. The damage is estimated at £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When their home at North Narrabeen caught alight early this morning. Joseph Henry Lovell, his wife, and child, barely had time to make their escape to safety…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kegs and tins filled with petrol and kerosene were found on the first floor of the Marlborough Hotel, King-street, Newtown, after two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The fire in the Marlborough Hotel, Newtown, on Wednesday, was mentioned in the Newtown Police Court, when Gilbert Henry Allen, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Investigations made by the police concerning the fire which caused damage at the Marlborough Hotel, King-street, and Missenden-road, Newtown, last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Approximately 10,000 bales of wool, principally Australian, were burned in a daylight fire at Brown Eagles East End warehouse…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire broke out in the restaurant known as the White Kitchen, in Crown-street, this morning. The fire brigade effected as good save, but the occupants…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The workshop section of the Queensland Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution at Dutton Park was destroyed by fire early this afternoon. The damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire which broke out, in the premises occupied by Elliott and Trimble, in Lee Court, Pitt-street, Sydney, on Saturday night, resulted in about £4000 worth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A four-roomed house unoccupied at Stanford-street, Kitchener, was destroyed by fire during the early hours of yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The report that 30,000 tons of coal stored at Pyrmont power-house had been destroyed by a fire which had been burning for three weeks, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A four-roomed unoccupied cottage, owned by David Emerson, and situated at Kitchener, was completely destroyed by fire yesterday. The owner is away…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Damage estimated at over £5000 was caused by a fire in Atherton, North Queensland, this morning, when the Commonwealth Hotel, and four shops in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A strange story, implicating a man, concerning the cause of a fire which destroyed a hotel was told by Hugh Robertson, when he was examined in bankruptcy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage estimated at £20.000 was caused by a fire at Palmerston North, which destroyed Cook and Sons' box factory. More than 60 employees have been thrown out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Firemen battled against terrific heat and the dangers of falling electric wires to save the Leichhardt Stadium, when fire destroyed the Grown Box Company's premises next door. The flames advanced through the stadium windows and were…
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