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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 42
The flames of orange flowers burned in twig camp fire foundations on the supper tables at the City Hall last night, and paper flames lit the stage in the main hall with their bright glow for the annual "Camp Fire Ball" arranged for the Boy Scouts'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Occupants of a five-roomed cottage at Martinsville escaped hurriedly when the house was destroyed by fire at 5 a.m. on Monday. A sewing machine and a few…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Damage estimated at about £200 was done in a spectacular fire on the first floor of Stead's Tyre Service premises in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Damage estimated at £2000 was caused by a fire which destroyed three shops and their contents at Tugun, a seaside resort near the New South Wales border,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The House of Representatives Committee inquiring into "un-American activities" has agreed to investigate immediately the charges that the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Firemen from Newcastle and Hamilton, with one line of hose, were able to confine to one section of the room a fire which broke out in the first floor of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The dispute at the North Wallarah colliery and two adjoining tunnels, for which volunteer labour had been called, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fire broke out in a quantity of rubbish in a corrugated iron shed at the rear of premises occupied by Williams and Co., furniture warehousemen, in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Damage estimated at £4000 was caused when a fire destroyed the convent o[?] the Dominican Sisters at Auckland to-day, There were only two occupants, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The second disastrous fire within a few months occurred in the business section of Maitland-street, Bingara, early this morning, when a two-storied brick…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grave fears, are expressed that the political fires in France nay flare up afresh when the nation most needs calm to face…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dense smoke from a cane thresh fire on a canefield adjoining the Pacific Highway had reduced visibility to the irreducible minimum when Mr. G. Davis, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three people were killed, and 50 injured When an explosion and fire followed a collision between two trains in a subway to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A theory that the fire which occurred in a Crown-street shop on July 30 was caused by sewer gas was advanced by the owner at the inquiry to-day. He said…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Japanese pursuit 'planes forced down a passenger 'plane of the Chinese National Aviation Company while it was on its way from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Deaths as a result of the collision of an instructional 'plane and a passenger 'plane at Amori yesterday now total 36 Both 'planes crashed in flames on to iron…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Entries have closed for the fire brigades' display on the second night of the Northern Agricultural Associations Show at Singleton. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Darryl F. Zanuck gasped when he learned that the Chicago fire of 1871 cost £40,000,000. "We must have a smaller fire, he said drily, when discussing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 8.45 o'clock last night a fire broke out in the Kurri Methodist Church, but was quickly extinguished by the Kurri Fire Brigade with a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly before 9 o'clock lust night a fire was discovered in the Kurri Kurri Methodist Church, a weatherboard building. On the arrival of the Kurri Kurri…
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