Shop Destroyed Blaze at Punchbowl SYDNEY
A drapery shop containing goods valued at £1500 was destroyed by fire early this morning. The premises, which were situated in Punchbowl-road, Punchbowl,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1931
730 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 37
Spectacular Fire Man Asleep in Building SYDNEY
A spectacular fire gutted Barwell's news agency, at Rockdale, to-day. There was a large store of fireworks in he shop in preparation for Empire Day celebrations, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Noisy Fire When Crackers Ignited News Agency Gutted Sydney
Preceded by hundreds of explosions among crackers, a fierce fire raged in Barwell's Newsagency, Rockdale, yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ultimo Fire Boxmakers Nearly Gutted Heavy Damage Firemen Avert Oil Explosion SYDNEY
The contents of the first and second floors of the premises of Robertson and Wishart, Ltd., cardboard-box makers and printers, in Ultimo-road, Ultimo, were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Islington Fire Little Damage Caused Outbreak This Morning
A tram guard noticed flames in a four-roomed cottage, owned by A. G. Goddard, in Chin-chen-street, Islington, early this morning and immediately notified the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Five Killed Police Fire on Rioters CALCUTTA, May 19
Five were killed and many injured as a result of police firing on a riotous crowd in the village of Ferozepore, where they were quartering…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Narrow Escapes Big Hotel Fire in N.Z. Wellington (N.z.)
An old Wellington building, the Panama Hotel, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The fireman had a severe tank owing to heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Her Home Was Set on Fire Widow's Story Said Attempt Was Made to Shoot Her "Man From Newcastle" "Home Was Deliberately Set on Fire by Person Unknown," Said Coroner
Amazing allegations were made by a widow (Mrs. May Moodie), at an inquest at Cessnock to-day into a series of fires at her home in Church-street, Cessnock. She told the Coroner (Mr. Johnston) that she from Newcastle," who, she alleged, had threatened to shoot her, and had sent objectionable letters to her. She had not mentioned the matter to the police. "I find that some person unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burned to Death Family Trapped by Fire Six Others in Hospital London, May 20
Cut off from the stairs and overcome by smoke, six people, including a family of five, with twin infants, perished in a fire in a condemned slum tenement at Hull…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Widow's Amazing Allegations at Fire Inquiry Lyons Turns Down Conference Offer Made by Scullin Counter Plan Canberra
"We do not think that the conference of members of Parliament, which has been suggested by the Prime Minister, would…
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Newcastle police are investigating the circumstances of the fire in Chinchin-street, Islington, reported in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" of yesterday, but,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"DELIBERATE" Cessnock House Fire Verdict at Inquiry
May Moodie, a widow, residing in Church-street, Cessnock, told Mir. W. Johnson, District Coroner, at the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Inquiries Into Islington Fire Action Is Hinted
Developments are exported by police and fire brigade officials as a result of a fire which damaged house in Islington early yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£300,000 DAMAGE Fire in Newfoundland Fishing Plants Destroyed Harbour Grace (N'fld), May 20
Damage of £300,000 was done by a fire early on Wednesday, which swept through Carbonear, on the West Coast of Conception Bay, destroying the principal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Brigade Social
The members of the Waratah Fire Brigade and their friends assembled at the Fire Station on Saturday evening last, for the purpose of making a presentation…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Explosions Follow Fire Brussels, May 22
Two explosions following a fire at Cockerill's Engineering Works, shook the town of Seraing. Windows were broken, and people…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Odd Scenes Old and New in Panama Fire Needed Only Way to Clean Some Homes Panama City, April 6
In a shop window in Panama City, the capital of the Republic of Panama, surrounded by gramophones playing jazz, radio sets, electric light, motor cars, and all the devices of modem, and especially of American, civilisation, lay a dried and shrunken human head. It…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Car
Due, it is thought, to a short-circuit in the electric system, a car owned by Miss Isabel J. Balling, of Belford-street, Hamilton, caught alight on Saturday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fewer Shipboard Fires Big Decrease Last Year LONDON, April 3
Many items of interest are dealt with in the annual report of the Liverpool Underwriters' Association, none perhaps more important than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Commissioners Here Next Month Presentation of Medal
The Board of Fire Commissioners will visit Newcastle on Wednesday. June 3, and will be willing to meet the City Council at the Fire Station…
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