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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
730 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 37
Two men who staged a hold-up in a shop on the second floor of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society's Buildings, Elizabeth-street, this afternoon, narrowly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The League of Nations is really under fire for the first time, and the outcome of the grave problems in the Far East will decide whether the League's authority…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tragedy was associated with a blaze at an ironmongery store of J. Harrison and Co., Rockhampton, yesterday. While dashing to the scene the fire-engine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wangi residents do not want a repetition of their experience of several seasons ago when the peninsular was cut off from the rest of the world…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire at South Lismore this afternoon destroyed J. Welsh's newspaper shop, and M. Hootan's hairdressing shop, and endangered a block of wooden buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A smouldering fire, apparently started by a pipe, caused the death of William Murphy, 65, tobacconist, at Malvern this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Cambridge, which has arrived here, reports that a fire No. 3 hold was extinguished with slight damage, Some frozen mutton was affected on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire destroyed the cricket bat factory of T. R. Mathews and Sons, at Arncliffe, yesterday morning. The damage is estimated at over £2000. A resident in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A forest fire patrol will be standing by at Air Force headquarters, Laverton (Victoria), throughout the whole summer, ready to take the air instantly. It will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →About 9 o'clock last night, the Belmont Fire Brigade, under Captain R. Jackson, received a call to an outbreak of fire in a four-roomed weatherboard cottage,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cottage owned and occupied by Michael Tracy, in Frances-street, Wallsend, caught fire about 2 p.m. to-day, but the Wallsend and Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carelessness with matches on the part of intruding boys, evidently when they were after a bird's nest is believed to have been responsible for an outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A comprehensive scheme to combat bushfires has been organised at Ganmain. A meeting of farmers and townspeople decided to form a bushfire brigade, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A six-roomed weatherboard cottage, in Main-road, Speers' Point, was almost completely destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. The cottage was owned by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fire brigade did smart work early this morning, in preventing the destruction of a block of wooden buildings in the business centre of Ballina…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cessnock Fire Brigade was, during the early hours of this morning, called upon to attend to two blazes which broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A big conflagration was threatened by a fire which broke, out early this morning in the premises of W. H. Bennett, furniture manufacturer. The premises were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →About 360 men and girls are out of work as the result of the big fire at the Hardle Rubber factory, off Soudan-street, Rushcutters Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Modern beauty in distress does not hesitate to remember the old saying, "When in doubt ask a policeman."…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Pekin man was living at least one million years ago. He used fire and stone axes. This is the substance of a report…
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