Set Clothes on Fire Inquiry Into Hamilton Child's Death
Death due to burns accidentally sustained was the verdict of the Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) at an inquest at Newcastle Courthouse yesterday into the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1939
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 44
Malice in House Fire Appeals-Court on Youth's Sentence SYDNEY
The Court of Criminal Appeals to-day confirmed the sentence of six years' imprisonment imposed on Frederick Edward Lovell, 19, labourer, by Judge Curlewis…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Bombs Found in Post Office London Pillar Boxes Set On Fire LONDON
Four unexploded bombs were found in Wimpole-street Post Office to-night after an explosion had occurred. A man was injured by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electrical Fire on Thetis Fumes May Have Hastened End Third Sea Lord's View (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, June 9
The Third Sea Lord (Rear-Admiral Fraser) denies a statement attributed to him that a fire, in the ordinary sense of the word, occurred on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Radio Station Gutted Deniliquin's Midnight Fire MELBOURNE
Only the wooden aerial masts were saved when a fire broke out at the Deniliquin broadcasting station 2QN shortly after midnight last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fishing Boat Wrecked Man Lost Overboard Wheelhouse Fire As Signal Brisbane
A man was drowned and eight others narrowly escaped death when the former mine-sweeper Atlantic, latterly used as a fishing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Panic N.Z. Boarding House Ablaze Man Hurt in Jump for Safety Wellington (N.z.)
When flames raged up the staircase of a large apartment house, which caught fire early yesterday morning panic was caused, and one inmate jumped 15ft. to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Owner Safe Shellharbour Launch Fire KIAMA
Police and civilians searched to-day on land and sea for a man who was believed to have lost his life when a 25ft. launch was burned to the water's edge, less…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Canberra Dismissals Work May Stop on Fire Station Construction CANBERRA
Unless six dismissed men are reinstated by the contractor, work may cease on the Canberra fire station, now in course of construction. A special…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →At Lancashire Colliery Fire
Ambulances at the pithead of the Astley Green colliery, in Lancashire, where a number of miners were trapped by fire on June 6…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Heavy Damage Surry Hills Fire Four-storied Building Sydney
Damage between £20,000 and £25,000 was caused when fire destroyed a four-storied building at the corner of Crown and Jesmond Streets, Surry Hills,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Set on Fire by Arab Gang Famous Jewish Pilgrimage Places JERUSALEM, June 18
An Arab gang set fire to the ancient tomb of Rabbi Baalhaness, near Tiberias, also the adjoining synagogue and Talmudic seminary, all of which We famous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →You Can Help to Abate Smoke in Newcastle In Winter the Domestic Fire is the Chief Offender
The householder who blames industry for the smoke pall which lies over Newcastle on a still night is deceiving himself. At such times anything up to two-thirds of the smoke has been contributed by domestic fires. The proportion would not be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Waratah Colliery Fire Naked Lights Blamed
Regarding the fire at the Waratah colliery in 1938, which wan investigated by the Commission, the report states—"There was no evidence to suggest incendiarism,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Domestic Fire Becomes Less Smoky How Research Aids the Housewife
An article published yesterday stated that domestic fires are responsible for two-thirds of the smoke over Newcastle on a cold winter night. (The proportion is much lower by day and in summer.) It was also pointed out that smoke indicates…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →More Rioting in India Police Fire on Crowd CAWNPORE, June 20
Three persons were killed and 36 others were injured in a renewal of religious rioting at Cawnpore, United Province, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Destroyed by Fire British Flying-boat One Man Missing: Six Rescued (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, June 20
Imperial Airways' flying-boat Connemara caught fire and was destroyed while refuelling from a barge at Hythe (Kent),…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →FIRE At Parliament House Blaze In Rooms Of Country Party SYDNEY
"Strangers seem to be in the house." the Speaker (Mr. Weaver) observed as firemen to-day rushed into Parliament House…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Small Fire at Mental Hospital
Slight damage was done by a fire in the occupation room at the Mental Hospital. Watt-street, this morning. Newcastle East and Cook's Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Homes Destroyed by Fire Sydney
Two brick cottages were destroyed by fire at Alexandria to-day. The residents of both houses were away at the time, and did not know of their loss until to-night…
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