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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1855

6 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

The Fire at Memel

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 January 1855 · page 4

The dreadful conflagration which has taken place here is at last subdued and about £2,000,000 sterling has been destroyed. The shipping is all safe. All business is suspended…

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Latest Intelligence. the Siege of Sebastopol. Slackening of the Fire of the Besieged-sebastopol a Mass of Ruins

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 February 1855 · page 4

A despatch from Therapia stales that the captain of a ship, which left the Crimea on the 26th,. brings intelligence of the slackening of the fire of the…

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I'm. Siting by the Old Fire-side

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 August 1855 · page 4

I'm sitting by the old fire-side, "Where I've sat many a time When a mother's smiles encouraged me Upon her lap to climb…

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Great Fire at Novogorod

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 October 1855 · page 2

A private despatch from Hamburg, dated the 19th instant, states that a great and destructive fire had broken out at Novogorod during the grand fair, or gathering of the merchants there…

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Fearful Fire at Ballarat Great Loss of Life

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 December 1855 · page 2

" Well, here we have December again, and Monday next will be the anniversary of a day that will be remembered in the annals of this colony, when the Crimean war, and the visit of the Queen…

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The Late Fire at Ballarat

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 December 1855 · page 1

A correspondent of tho Geelong. Advertiser furnishes tho following additional particulars of this calamity :—The origin of the late fire is still a mystery. It certainly broke out in the United…

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