Gas Explosion Damage to Hunter-street Shop Two Men Hurt Fire Promptly Quelled
Two workmen were slightly injured, and a plateglass window and shop fittings in George A. Campbell's tobacconist's shop in Hunter-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1935
782 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 40
Fire in City
Much excitement but little damage was caused by a fire which broke out on the footpath in Newcomen-street Newcastle, in front of the Commonwealth Bank,…
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Firemen from Headquarters and Newcastle East stations wasted notime pulling down a temporary corrugated iron enclosure round a quantity of timber and packing cases which caught alight on the pavement in Newcomen-street yesterday morning. It was the third minor outbreak in three days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pungent Smoke New York Warehouse Fire Hundreds Overcome Underground Trains Held Up (Australian Press Association.) New York, April 20
One hundred firemen and several hundred underground railway passengers were overcome by acrid smoke from a persistent blaze in a Brooklyn waterfront warehouse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →2495 Are Dead In Formosan Disaster Fire Adds to the Horrors of Landslides and Entombment Whole Families Were Wiped Out When Houses Crashed Ruin and Panic Amid the Fleeing Natives Tokyo
The latest official reports state that 2495 persons are dead and 5770 injured in Formosa. The earthquake that wrought frightful havoc in the northern half of Formosa yesterday morning, was the greatest disaster of the kind in the history of the island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Every Room Surprise for the Brigade Auckland
Auckland firemen received a shock when they arrived at a fire in a city house and found that there were fires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →OVER 3000 DEAD Formosan Earthquake Disaster Fire Adds to Terrors Army Doctors and Red Cross Working Feverishly (Australian Press Association) TOKIO, April 22
Latest messages from the areas stricken by the earthquake in Formosa reveal the awfulness of the disaster. The Formosan police report that the dead counted number 3003. Communications are not yet re-established with some of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Changes in Fire Brigade Staff
In reply to an inquiry as to why Captain T. Fogo had resigned from the fire brigade service, the Wallsend Council last night received a letter from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chain of Fire Encircle Australia Scouts' Plan for Jubilee
A chain of beacons around the coast of Australia and probably throughout every British country in the world, will be the Boy Scouts' contribution to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Labour Mr. Chifley Fires First Shot in Election Campaign Policy on Unemployment "If Private Enterprise Cannot Provide Work, Government Must" Party Favours Abolition of State Parliaments Sydney
The Federal Labour Party is ,very definite that if private enterprise cannot employ the men who are without work, then the Government must, said the leader of the party New South Wales (Mr. J. B. Chifley) to-night in his policy speech broadcast from Station 2BL…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dublin Fire Sweepstakes' Drawing Room Clerks Watch Inferno Dublin, April 24
The Plaza Building, Dublin, in the hallroom of which the Irish Sweepstakes are drawn, has been burnt down. Incendiarism is suspected…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gaol for Sedition Republicans in Ireland Fire-eating Speeches Dublin
Cornelius Lehane, a solicitor, who was arrested in the roundup of Republican agitators on March 26, was sentenced by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jubilee Network of Fires Historic Significance of Beckoning
Preparations for the celebration of the King's Jubilee are taking shape In London, as they are here. In England, of course, celebrations…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Suspected Thief Storekeeper Fires Shots Probably Wounded But Escaped Sydney
Awakened by the ringing of the burglar alarm at 4.30 a.m. yesterday, a Seven Hills storekeeper named Davis, saw a man running away. The suspect ignored…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Adelaide Fire £30,000 Damage Caused ADELAIDE
Between £20,000 and £10,000 worth of damage was caused by a fire which destroyed the Flinders-street premises of Thompson and Harvey, dealers in paints…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parkes Fire Followed Explosion Fine Home Destroyed PARKES
The £2000 home of Ald. L. Mazoudier, was wrecked by an explosion, last night after which fire broke out and completed the ruin of the residence, which was one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Open Fire 37 Peasants Killed Clash in India Calcutta, April 28
Thirty-seven Jat. peasants were killed and a large number seriously wounded during firing by police in the village of Kadan in the Rajputana State. A police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Vacant Land
Called to a fire on a vacant block of land in Church-street to-day. Newcastle and Newcastle East brigades put it out with bags. Only rubbish was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Brisbane Brisbane
Early this morning, fire did damage estimated at £1000 to the plant and equipment of the Premier Ice and Ice Cream Company Ltd., South Brisbane. The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Washing Spoiled Fires Lit by Neighbour Complaint to Lambton Council
Complaints that a resident deliberately lit a fire when a neighbour's washing was on the line were received at last night's meeting of Lambton Council. Ald. A. V…
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