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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 42
Three seamen, Murdo Smith, Sinclair Pottinger, and Louis Kaho, were charged at Moss Vale Police Court with having early to-day maliciously set fire to a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bail of £100 each was allowed Murdo Smith, 45, and Sinclair Pottinger, 45, at the Central Police Court to-day when they appeared on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A fire in the photographers' studio at Coventry yesterday. at which bridesmaids' dresses caught ablaze. led to two bridesmaids dying in hospital last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As a sequel to a fire in a photographer's studio at Coventry, where a bridal party was being photographed yesterday, two bridesmaids died in hospital after…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire brigades from Headquarters and Newcastle East were called to a fire in a pile of rubbish at the rear of the Northern Investment Company…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →According to the Madras correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency, 32 persons were killed and 48 were injured when the Mysore State police fired on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fire which damaged a small tyre retreading establishment in Darlinghurst to-night caused anxious moments to firemen and to Mr. Leo Cracknell, an animal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Firemen from Newcastle headquarters averted what might have been a serious outbreak in the Palais Royal, Hunter-street West, yesterday afternoon. They…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Murdo Smith, 45, sailor, and Sinclair Pottinger, 50, seaman, who were arrested after a fire on the Melbourne Express on April 21, appeared at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A four-roomed cottage, owned and occupied by Anthony Soro, of Aberdare-road, Aberdare, was badly damaged by fire between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire caused severe damage to a cottage in Collaroy-road, New Lambton, yesterday. Beginning in the laundry, the flames worked their way across the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Another Dig country fire occurred early to-day at Walgett. Two shops and an office were destroyed and another building badly damaged. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clothing and building plans were destroyed by a fire which broke out to-night in the builder's office at the Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The fourth serious country fire within a few weeks occurred early to-day, when two shops and an office at Walgett were destroyed, and another building was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Recently at Mayfield was formed a committee for the sole purpose of collecting funds to assist the Herps family, which suffered tragic loss in the fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A report was received by the police late to-day that a small steamer had caught fire a few miles off the headlands at Coogee. Dense volumes of smoke were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Youthful firebugs operated again last night, or early to-day, a deliberate attempt being made to burn down the Crystal-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two thousand sacks were destroyed by fire to-day at the Dremises of T. Morgan and Sons, bag dealers. In Canterbury-road. Canterbury…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The 25,178-ton French luxury liner Lafayette was completely destroyed by fire which broke out at midnight while the ship was in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The infant son of a Public Works employee, John Thomas Parsons, was burned to death in a hut at Cornwell last night…
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