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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
730 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 37
A bloodless victory resulting in the capture of 17 prisoners followed the landing of a detachment of Portugeuse chasseurs at Canical, a village…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The most appalling disaster in the history of the Egyptian railways occurred to-day between Cairo and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three people are dead as the result of a tragic shooting affair at Temora early this morning. A man appeared at a house in Twynham-road, at 3 a.m., poked a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →No fewer than 46 persons were killed and 41 injured in the worst disaster of the Egyptian railways. An express: excursion train, crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Besides, too much cold and damp is bad for the cars and they get out of condition. The next day Gerald and George…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire destroyed a three-roomed cottage and contents at Cardiff early on Saturday morning. The cottage, which was situated in Fern Gully, was occupied by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An extraordinary fire broke out in the Castlemaine Hotel, in City-road, South Melbourne, to-night. When the firemen arrived, they found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, 52, of Waterloo, suffered serious burns this morning, when her clothes caught alight, while she was cooking dinner over an open fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eluding the police and Nahas six Wafd executive officers motored to Bem Suef, and entered the house of a prominent Wafdist. A crowd quickly gathered, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bondi Junction presented an animated scene about 1 a.m. to-day, during a spectacular fire at the bootshop of Harry Deacon Harper, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collapsing in a fit into a fire while he was burning off a quantity of rubbish at Rathmines to-day, Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yamanaka, a hot springs resort, was wiped out by a fire this morning. The loss is estimated at £5,000,000. Over 700 dwellings and 30 hotels were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Falling on a heap of burning rubbish yesterday, Arthur Williams, 25, motor mechanic, of Rathmines, Toronto, was badly burned about the body, head and neck,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Detectives Lenehan and Coble, of Mascot police station, are investigating a suspicions outbreak of fire which occurred in a vacant building owned by James…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At 1 o'clock on Sunday morning an attractive bungalow at Ross Hill, the property of Thomas Gabriel Fleming, stock and station agent, was destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anti-monarchist rioting on Sunday morning culminated in an attempt to storm a newspaper office which was defended by powerful hydrants and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While mobs were burning convents and churches, demonstrators were crowded outside the Ministry for the Interior, demanding the shooting of Generals…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, the Deputy Coroner (Mr. W. R. Pickett) opened an inquest into the cause of a fire which totally destroyed a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Approximately 500 dwellings and half the town of Shirone, near Niiata, were destroyed by a night fire. It is believed to be the work of an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Neighbours fought in vain, to save a blazing cottage near Main-road, Cardiff Heights, yesterday afternoon. A weather-board structure of two rooms, the cot…
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