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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 42
The Marsoilles correspondent at the "Daily Telegraph" states that the disastrous fire at the week-end revealed the hopeless inadequacy of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Damage estimated at £1000 was caused by a fire, which gutted the premises in Grenfell-street of John Galligan and Co., bedding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Considerable damage was caused by a fire at the rear of the bangars at Archerfield aerodrome to-day. The greatest damage occurred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Note by the spanish Loyalist Government claim that although 10,000 Italian troops have been withdraw. 60,000 foreign troops, 1000 pilots, 2000 aviation mechanics and 26,000 technicians are still with the Insurgents—Gurney in "The Herald," Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →When a tram conductor ordered four youths, who were "sealing," to leave a Coogee train to-night, one of them produced a revolver and fired a shot into the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The need for fire-fighting appliances at wharves where sulphur is discharged was mentioned to-day at a meeting of the Newcastle Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →By a coincidence to-day two plainclothes policemen forestalled Maitland Fire Brigade. The brigade was called to a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Twenty-nine bodies have been recovered from the block of flats where a fire broke out in a photographer's rooms on the fourth floor while a party was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →While a party was in progress a fire broke out in a photographer's fourth floor flat, and it is feared that 30 persons lost their lives. Fifteen bodies have been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A used motor-car caught alight at Young and Green's showrooms in High-street West Maitland, yesterday morning. The West Maitland Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Six wharf laborers were trapped for a few minutes in the holds of the Japanese steamer Yae Mara to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One man lost his life, and four others were seriously injured, when a fire destroyed a boarding house at Auckland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →While six Whar[?]bourers were working in a hold of the Japanese freighter Yes Maru to-day, at Walsh Bay, there was a burst of flame, and the cargo caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The death occurred in Newcastle Hospital late last night of Mrs. M. Garth, 58, of Boreas-road, Adamstown, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One hundred and nine volunteer fire brigades throughout the State, including the metropolitan area, have submitted entries for the various competition events…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →To solve the mystery of the fire that almost completely destroyed the business section of Collaranebri last night, Detective Thomas Wilson, chief…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An orgy of destruction of Jewish property throughout Germany, which is continuing night and day on an unprecedented scale, followed the death of the Secretary to the German Embassy in Paris (Dr. von Rath), who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Detective T. Wilson left for Collarenebri to-day to collaborate with local police in inquiring into the cause of the fire which practically wiped out the town's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two show horses and an unnamed three-year-old trotter perished in a fire which destroyed the stables of W. Hood, of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An unoccupied weatherboard dwelling of five rooms in Anstey-street, Cessnock, was burnt to the ground early yesterday morning. When the brigade received the…
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