Man Charged With Setting Fire To House
On a charge of maliciously setting fire to a house in Bruce Street, Cook's Hill, while knowing that his wife…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 30
Motor Cycle on Fire
Cook's Hill Fire Brigade was called to a fire in a motorcycle in Hunter-street West at dusk yesterday. The rider, Gregory Creamer, of…
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Firemen from Cook's Hill and Hamilton stations answered a call to a shop in Watt-street last night. It was a malicious false alarm…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Owing to a ban on overtime, no work was done in the lunch hour to extinguish a fire which broke…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—More than 600 employees of Bunnerong power-house decided to-day to attend the electricity inquiry unless allegations…
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Garbage disposal at Merewether South could set coal seams on fire, according to the Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Shannon). He told the Greater…
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SYDNEY: When two trucks collided and burst into flames on the Hume Highway six miles from Liverpool last night two men and a boy were injured and one of the men is in a serious condition as the result of burns…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The inquiry by the State Electricity Authority into metropolitan blackouts was interrupted when a union…
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MELBOURNE. — A six-horse motor float conveying Keller Star. Ever Ready, Ply Beam, Remand and Best Love from…
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Coal is being removed from the bunker hatch of the interstate steamer Aroona, berthed at the Carrington Dyke, to enable the crew to extinguish a fire which was discovered early this morning…
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A fire which smouldered all yesterday beneath the coal in one of the holds of the S.S. Aroona, lying at Carrington, was said to be…
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Approximately 40 tons of coal have been taken out of the "booby" hatch of the interstate steamer Aroona as a safety…
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SYDNEY.—Damage estimated at about £30,000 was caused when the freezing works of John Davis, Junr., at Lake Cargelligo,…
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Fire gutted a bakehouse at Mayfield early this morning. The premises, which had been newly built, were owned by Mr. Stanley…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire in a furniture factory at Waterloo to-night caused damage estimated at more than £2000…
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A bakehouse occupied by George Stanley Goodwin, at 12 Valencia Street. Mayfield, was severely damaged by a fire which broke out early…
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HOBART, Thursday.—A 16-year-old boy set fire to a Hobart factory and caused damage estimated at £5000 in the…
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The fire that broke out in the bunker hold of the Aroona (3116 tons) at the Dyke End on Thursday was extinguished yesterday morning…
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ROME, May 15. A.A.P.—Twenty-six persons were incinerated and 30 injured, some seriously, when the offices of the Minerva Film…
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LISMORE, Thursday.—Detectives returned to Lismore to-night with hundreds of pieces of bone, 12 teeth and a metallic substance, which may…
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