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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
706 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 36
From the rafters of a freezing works building near Christchurch two escaped prisoners hurled detachable pieces of machinery at a party of police below…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →An explosion and fire destroyed a theatre at Blayney early to-day. The police believe that a bomb was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Present trends of development in Australia are taking the shape of conflicting movements in Europe which ended in the overthrow of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Craft's Hall, used as a picture theatre at Bellbird, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire which originated with a spark from the laundry chimney, damaged the wall and celling of the back verandah at the home of Mr. H. Williams,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A 60-mile-an-hour gale which swept through New South Wales to-day, brought snow and bushfires. In the metropolitan area houses were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At 1.45 p.m. on Saturday, Wallsend Fire Brigade was called to a house in Murnain-street, Wallsend, the home of Mr. H. Williams, and the property of Mrs. M…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage estimated at more than £2000 was caused by a fire to Craft's Hall, a wooden building, in Wollombi-road, Bellbird, early on Saturday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police believe that a deliberate attempt was made to cut off the town's reticulated water supply shortly before a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →City firemen put out flames from a gas main seven times at the Haymarket to-day. Foam used successfully, after a fish saloon had been threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire practically destroyed Eastwood Town Hall and Council Chambers early this morning. Two separate outbreaks occurred, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Detectives have decided to make plaster casts of footprints found at the scene of the Blayney Theatre explosion and fire, and at the town reservoir…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two private hospitals in Queensland were destroyed by fire about 2.30 a.m. to-day At the Thornbury Hospital in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Chief Secretary (Mr. F. A. Chaffey) stated yesterday that arrangements had been made to hold an election to fill the vacancy on the Board of Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Five men threw an incendiary bomb into a packing-case factory. A fire which it caused was quickly extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Civilian riflemen will use the 800 yards mounds at Adamstown range to-morrow and the militia clubs will fire from 600 yards. The target…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The incendiarist who in the last few months is believed to have caused 16 fires at Ballarat, continued his depredations last night, when an attempt was made…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tommy Wong, a Chinese, narrowly escaped with his life last night when a fire broke out in a shop attached to the premises on which he slept in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fanned by a terrific dust storm which swept over northeastern Victoria just before midnight, a fire destroyed two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A signal fire on top of Shiva Temple, a 4500ft. plateau untrodden by man for at least 12,000 years, announced that nine scientists and five porters have…
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