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Blue Mountains · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1893

3 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Bush Fires

Katoomba Times · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 4

THE Department of Agriculture is issuing circulars warning persons against the careless use of fire. The spread of fires, especially from the months of October to February, is usually…

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Blackheath School Fires. To the Editor of The Time

Katoomba Times · Friday 8 September 1893 · page 3

SIR,--I desire, with your permission, to correct an unpardonable error which, through the agency of your Blackheath correspondent, you published last week. I refer to the paragraph re fires…

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Destructive Fire at Lithgow

Katoomba Times · Friday 13 October 1893 · page 2

A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out at Burns' auction room, in the main street, shortly After midnight of Tuesday night last, and very soon the room and Dr. Leeper's house, next door, both wooden structures…

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