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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
782 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 40
Beginning near the Gosford Council's depot, a bush fire burnt its way through the State Forest Nursery this afternoon, causing severe loss of valuable pine trees,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →With flames shooting 30feet into the air from her engine-room, the R. W. Miller lighter, Audrey D., of 194 tons, was discovered alight at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An electric current failure at the City Council's Sydney-street power station, about 11 a.m. to-day threw the entire city area into confusion for more than half an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A shop was gutted, its contents destroyed and machinery in a basement beneath damaged in a fire at Mayfield shortly after 6 o'clock last night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When a fire broke out in a rubbish tip at Waterloo to-day, firemen fought the outbreak for three hours in order to prevent its reaching a terrace of 50…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When a fire broke out in the semi-detached kitchen of the residence of Mr. J. Edwards at Beresfield this afternoon a bucket brigade, formed by local…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →To discuss the Camp Fire Ball to be held on September 19, a meeting of the women was held in the Town Hall this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In connection with the Camp Fire Ball, to take place in the Newcastle Town Hall on Thursday, September 19, the Mayoresses of the Newcastle district,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The lighter Audrey D., of 194 tons, owned by R. W. Miller, was badly damaged by fire which broke out in the engine-room this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After describing how they had been compelled to stem with rifle-fire six rushes of hostile natives, Mr. Jack Hides, Assistant Resident Magistrate of the Papuan Administration, recounts in the following further extracts from his diary, covering his trip through…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →About 4 a.m. to-day Kurri Fire Brigade was called out to a fire at an unoccupied five-roomed weatherboard dwelling at Stanford-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Although at one stage a boatshed was threatened by a fire which spread over about half an acre of grass on the waterfront at Warner's Bay early last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Excellent work was performed by a bucket brigade of several men and women yesterday afternoon, when a fire broke out in a weatherboard cottage occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In the weeks following the commencement of trench war-fare in mid-September, 1914, the British Army passed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An unoccupied five-roomed weatherboard cottage in Stanford-street, Kurri Kurri, owned by Constable J. Larkin, of Newcastle was totally destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →When the 18-foot launch Czardas caught alight on the harbour to-night, the owner, Mr. Paul Hollingsworth Burton, of Hunter's Hill, fought desperately to subdue…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The aeronautical correspondent of "The Times" gives details of new apparatus for locating raiding aeroplanes and simultaneously…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cessnock Fire Brigade this afternoon was called to a small outbreak in the bush on the hill near the convent. The fire was extinguished in a few…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rev. F. W. Reeve, rector of St. Luke's Church of England. Mosman, stated to-day that the damage to the church by the fire last night would probably…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Burglars raided Kumeu Post Office, and stole the safe, which they blew open, stealing a large sum of money. They then set fire to the building…
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