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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 32
Detectives investigating a fire at Maitland Girls' High School last Friday night are checking the possibility that the blaze may have been started by juvenile thieves. Det.-Sgt. V. R…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MONTREAL, April 27. A.A.P.—Eight children died in a fire which destroyed a house near Sault Ste Marie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHICAGO, April 28. A.A.P. The death toll in a factory explosion and fire in Chicago on April 16 rose to 35 to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MONTREAL, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—A fire raged out of control for more than six hours last night and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The installation of a fire hose box near the corner of Grandview-road and Marshall-street has been approved by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CALCUTTA, Mon. (A.A.P.): The Comet jet airliner, which crashed near Calcutta on Saturday, killing all 43 people aboard, dived to earth wingless at terrific speed "like a ball of fire"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LAS VEGAS (Nevada), Mon. (A.A.P.). — Two 85-ton cannons, bound for the Frenchman's Flat proving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, May 5. A.A.P.— Reuter's Oslo correspondent says children who played with matches started 193 fires,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Engines from Cook's Hill and Tighe's Hill brigades turned out to a small fire at the rear of the Valet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ATHENS, Wed. (A.A.P.). —Greek frontier guards fired on five or six Bulgarian soldiers who landed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE,, Thursday.— A 27-year-old volunteer in the Crystal Brook fire brigade was sentenced in the Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A fire in a house in Elizabeth St., Tighe's Hill, last night is believed by Newcastle detectives to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TORONTO, Sun. (A.A.P.)—Forest fires swept thousands of acres in Ontario today and more than 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Fire destroyed part of the old Tattersall's stand at Flemington racecourse to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Full Bench of the State Industrial Commission began hearing evidence at Newcastle today…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Full Industrial Commission, consisting of Mr. Justice Cantor, Mr. Justice De Baun and Mr. Justice Weir, heard…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →COLUMBUS (Ohio), May 11. .A.A.P.—Seventeen thoroughbred racehorses and a stable pony died at Beulah…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Hundreds of people watched a spectacular fire destroy a two-s[?]orey cake factory in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—A 21-year-old invalid pensioner who, the Crown alleged, had caused a £100,000 Pyrmont…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WAGGA, Wednesday.—The New South Wales Railways Commissioner (Mr. Winsor) would not be ordered to give…
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