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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 42
A small fire in a dormitory at the Mental Hospital, Watt-street, about 9 o'clock last night, was quelled promptly by the nursing staff with a chemical extinguisher…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sparks from a teasing machine, which ignited cotton waste, caused a small outbreak of fire at the felt anti textile works at Alexandria to-day. Several teasing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The burning north pier pavilion at Blackpool, the popular Lancashire seaside resort, was watched by 200,000 people who packed the promenades and ventured into the water. The damage caused by the fire was estimated at £20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The "Washington correspondent of the United Press learns that the United States Army will soon be equipped with a new, secret type of semi-automatic rifle,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Apparently stimulated by the wind during the past few days the underground fire at the rear of the Trades Hall, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After hundreds of gallons of water had been poured into the underground fire near the Trades Hall" during the past three days there were surface…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The, French Foreign Office has ordered a strict inquiry into a serious Franca-Italian frontier incident yesterday in the region of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"The only conclusion I can come to is that the four fires were caused by a youth with a warped intellect. The writing suggests that some undesirable…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The City Coroner (Mr. Oram) to-day found that the fire which destroyed the cabin cruiser Suki, valued at £500, on Sydney Harbour recently, was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →When police were called to the Glebe Public School yesterday to investigate three distinct fires on the first floor they found chalked on the blackboard. "The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire at Mulgrave Central sugar mill, Gordonvale, last night. The fire began in the engine-room. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three children were incinerated when a fire gutted a cottage at Silverdale, near Camden, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Hard astern mother," cried marines from H.M.S. Repulse when a veiled Arab woman dashed into a building which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Central Police Court today. Stanley Thomas Andrew Nicholls, 18, was charged with having maliciously damaged a motor-lorry, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Your suit may murmur "Bond Street," your hat May whisper "Paris," but if your gloves shout…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Extremes were experienced at Gaffney's Creek when a fire broke out in an old hotel to-day. Firefighters tried to quell the blaze, but the water in the taps was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Jew and Jewess were stoned and seriously hurt, three bombs were thrown, and seven Jewish premises set on fire in outrages at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A denial that arrangements had been made to divert the Newcastle-Stockton vehicular ferry from its usual duties at any time to transport…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A building containing plant and material valued at £700, owned by Mr. P. Payne, was destroyed by fire at Anna Bay early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dennis O'Brien, 30, married, of Bondi, suffered severely from shock when a fire broke out in car which he was polishing in a closed garage near his home…
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