Inciting Charge Merchant Acquitted Cessnock Fire Mentioned Sydney
Following a police witness being questioned by Judge Curlewis, a jury in the Quarter Sessions to-day acquitted Bernard Ormond Baker, 45, retail furniture…
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Fires & bushfires, 1936
878 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 44
Car on Fire
Believed to have caused by a short-circuit, a fire damaged a car in a garage at Scott-street, Newcastle, yesterday. Newcastle East Brigade attended and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Petrol Blaze Pumped from Bowser Set Alight by Youths Sydney
A sensation was caused in Johnson-street, Annandale, to-night, when a number of youths pumped about 30 gallons of petrol from a bowser into the gutter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boys' Prank Lit Fire In A Locomotive
Police and railway authorities take a serious view of a report that a band of youths lit a fire in the fire-box of a locomotive at Port Waratah yards yesterday afternoon. IT is stated that about a dozen boys…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Enjoy the Fun of the FIRE-SIDE
GRANDMA would not hove approved of her daughters doing anything so inelegant as sitting on coal boxes to enjoy a fire. But in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Streets New Fire Alarm System LONDON, July 18
A scheme for the modernisation of the London street fire alarm system will come before the London County Council next week, on the recommendation of its Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Damage Big Fire in Brisbane Crowd Blocks Traffic Brisbane
Heavy damage was caused on Saturday night by Brisbane's most disastrous city fire for years. The outbreak occurred at Manahan's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disastrous Fire Knitting Mills Destroyed NEARLY £20,000 Damage Melbourne
Spreading with remarkable rapidity, a fire destroyed the knitting mills of G. W. Buller Pty., Ltd., of Stuart-street, South Melbourne, on Saturday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lloyd George's Memoirs—No. 8. Haig Under Fire Again PROMOTIONS Division To C.G.S. Corps Cmdr. "Most Unfair To Troops"
Lloyd George, in this instalment of his memoirs, warmly criticises two major appointments made by Earl Haig. One was the appointment of a divisional…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Firemen Burned Two in Serious Condition Trapped on Staircase in Sydney Fire Sydney
Trapped on a staircase when fumes from the burning material became ignited while they were fighting a fire in a four-storey…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Motorship ROTTERDAM
The Norwegian motorship Tarn (6780 tons). arrived here to-day with a fire on board but it was extinguished before serious damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ATE 250 CHICKENS Hungry Sow Sets Barn on Fire GRAFTON
A hungry sow ate chickens worth about £20, and set a big barn on fire at A. Thomson's farm, near Grafton. Thomson sent eggs to Sydney for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Motor-ship
Rotterdam, July 21.—The Norwegian motorship Turn (6750 tons) arrived here to-day with a fire on board, but it was extinguished before serious damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parliamentarians in Predicament Coalfields Members Between Two Fires Change of Tactics Sydney
Harassed by the Miners' Federation and under pressure exerted by Mr. Lang, Coalfields Parliamentarians are in a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Hamilton
A wooden garage was almost totally destroyed, and a car considerably damaged by fire which broke out at the rear of a house in Lawson-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Demonstration by Fire Brigades Gathering for Kurri
A meeting of the Kurrl-Weston and Abermain Fire Brigades was held at Weston last night to make arrangements for a demonstration at Kurrl…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Issue Still Doubtful Civil War Approaches Climax in Spain Dead Estimated at 20,000 Shells Fall in Gibraltar: British Warship Opens Fire (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, July 23
The civil war in Spain appears to be approaching a climax, and the next few days may decide the destiny of the country. To-day the Government again issued what is becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kurri Fire Brigades Plans for Demonstration
The following programme for the fire brigades' demonstration at Kurri Kurri on November 14 was adopted at a meeting on Thursday night of representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Small Fire in City
Newcastle East and Cook's Hill Fire Brigades attended an outbreak of fire at the rear of No. 21 Bolton-street, Newcastle, about noon yesterday. Several bags had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Spectacular Fire Wool Store Destroyed 50 Firemen Attend Melbourne
Heavy damage was caused by a spectacular blaze which, at 5 a.m. to-day, destroyed the wool-scouring works of the Federated Felt Hat Company, in Clarke-street,…
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