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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 30 of 44
Fire broke out on the Japanese steamer Bokuyo Maru (8619 tons) In the middle of the Pacific Ocean while on its way from Los Angeles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Elaborate plans to combat bushfires, including the establishment of an aerial patrol, will be put into practice by the Bushfire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Premises occupied by Hugh Harford Ptry Ltd., bath-heater manufacturers, in Danks-street, Waterloo, were severely damaged by fire to-night. The cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The General Manager for Selfridge's interests in Australasia (Mr. H. Phillips) said yesterday that the damage caused by the fire at the Newcastle store last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mrs Ed. S. Abell Jnr., of Smithfield. U.S.A., awakened by smoke in her room, rushed from her burning home with her child in her arms…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A weatherboard cottage of four rooms occupied by James Corkett, and situated in Rawson-street, Aberdare, was severely damaged by fire yesterday afternoon. It…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An unemployed man lost his belonging when tils home was severely damaged by fire at Rawson-street Abprdare. last night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Prompt action by the fire brigades prevented a serious fir at the Waterloo works of the Westinghouse Rosebery Company Ltd., engineers, to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With the siren continually sounding, a detective in a police wireless car early to-day chased a suspect car four miles at speeds up to 85 miles an hour while his companion leaned out of the window firing revolver shots at the fugitive…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A detective in a police wireless car early to-day, chased a suspect motor-car four miles at speeds up to 85 miles an hour, while his companion leaned out…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cook's Hill and Tighe's Hill brigades attended an outbreak of fire in the ground floor of a two-story dwelling in Maitland-road Islington. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Britain is providing a new heavy machine-gun, named the Besa, says "The Dally Telegraph." It is based on the Bren…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—I wish to voice a complaint of the matter of the comfort of the people of Newcastle Girls' High School. During the winter many of the girls suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →An unoccupied weatherboard house in Skipton-street, Ballarat, was destroyed by fire this morning. It was the 26th outbreak of fire this year…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Three premises were destroyed and three others were damaged by fire when broke out in the main street at Boonah this morning. The damage is estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An Arab who opened fire on a police cordon during a search of parts of Halfa yesterday was himself shot dead and found to be in possession of a rifle and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I was very pleased to notice "L. M.'s' letter and think it is just about time someone did take notice of events at the Girls High School. One…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Several tons of flour wore reined in a fire that broke out in the storeroom at Paterson's bakery, Charlestown, on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A woman early to-day found the charred body of an unidentified man near her home at Blackburn, 30 miles east of Melbourne. An attempt had been made to destroy the body…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fanned by a northerly wind, a fire which broke out in Lyell District Hospital, near Queenstown early to-day, gutted the main ward and destroyed much…
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