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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 34 of 44
A six-roomed timber house with contents was destroyed, a five-roomed house partly destroyed, and another house damaged by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Council is to make an early start to obviate the dancer of scrub fires in the municipality next summer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"This was a very tragic occurance," said the District Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin), at the inquest on Margaret Selma Johnson, 68, and Arthur Ford Johnson,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No. 13 crane at the Dyke, which has been under repair, was damaged by fire this afternoon. Cook's Hill and Carrington brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Evidence that prior to his death on July 31 her husband had threatened to commit suicide was given by the widow at the inquest to-day on James Barnes,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The storeroom and its contents at Murrurundi Post-office were destroyed by fire late to-night. The main portion of the building was not damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →During a discussion by Tarro Shire Council yesterday on the protection of the Beresfield and Thornton areas from bush fires, it was stated by the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four planes, valued at £4500, and a hangar worth £1000, were destroyed by fire, which followed a violent explosion at Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →There seems little doubt that an act of sabotage caused the destruction by explosion and fire last night of three aero club…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"We are definitely of opinion that the fire was started wilfully," said Police Inspector Holman, officer in charge at Broken Hill, to-day, referring to the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A four-roomed weatherboard cottage and its contents, in Congewai-street Aberdare, owned and occupied by Mrs. Lottie Moore, wore destroyed by fire about…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A weatherboard dwelling was totally destroyed by fire at Congewai Street, Aberdare, last night. The building was occupied by Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A sentry fired a shot at a taxi-cab traveling along a street closed to traffic, near the oil depot at Darling Harbour last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Burns and cuts were received by firemen fighting an outbreak in a furniture factory in Summer Hill about 2 a.m. yesterday When detachments from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Close search of the wreckage of the Broken Hill aerodrome after the loss of four planes and a hangar, as a result of a fire and explosion last Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Detectives are investigating a fire which destroyed a linsced off store at James Barnes Pty. Company's promises at Alexandria last night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The nit fire which has been raging for 70 years at Wyoming, and which is at last being conquered, recalls to the "Manchester Guardian" the fact that at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A seven-roomed weatherboard cottage on the bank of the Hunter River near Gowrie railway bridge, was completely destroyed by fire at midnight on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A five-roomed cottage in Speers Road Speers Point, owned by Mr. C. Unsworth of Metacalfe Street, Wallsend and occupied by Mr. James Owen and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Forty persons were killed and 80 Injured when a cinema caught on fire on the island of Lemnos…
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