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

Fires & bushfires, 1876

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

Volunteer Fire Brigade Meeting

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 26 January 1876 · page 2

A MEETING of the members of the Brigade, was held at their Assembly room. Hunter’s Albion Hotel, on Friday last, at 8 p.m. Captain Collins occupied the chair, and…

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Great Fire at Ludgate Hill

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 8 March 1876 · page 2

A great fire broke out on the premises of Mr Egle[?]on bookbinder. in [?] Ladgate Hill, and by 4 o'clock the whole balking of three stories was destroyed. the…

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Great Fire at Manchester

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 15 March 1876 · page 2

There was a great lire at Manchester near the Royal Exchange. It broke out in a warehouse in Strutt-Street, Newmarket street Moult-street, and Robinson-street in…

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Gulgong Fire Brigade

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 10 May 1876 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the members of the above, honorary and working, was held on Thursday evening at Hunter’s hotel, for the purpose of receiving the auditor’s report, the…

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The Fire at the Home Rule

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 28 June 1876 · page 2

ON Saturday last the Coroner (T. A. Browne, Esq.) held an inquest as to the cause of the fire at Home Rule on Thursday last, which destroyed the Odd-fellows' Hall and…

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Gulgong Fire Brigade Torchlight Procession

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 8 July 1876 · page 2

FOR the efficient working of the brigade it was arranged that a special practice should take place on Tuesday, July 4th—not in commemoration of the anniversary of the…

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A New Fire Extinguisher

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 12 July 1876 · page 4

IMPORTANT experiments have been made in New York in extinguishing fires by a new process. The New York Herald, of March 1, reports that in the presence of…

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A Fearfully Destructive Fire Atst. -John’s

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 26 July 1876 · page 3

St. John’s, Quebec, June 18.—This place was to-day visited by a most destructive tire, The entire business portion of the town, embracing a stretch of territory six hundred…

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Spontaneous Fire

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 2 September 1876 · page 2

[?] as tires are [?] the [?] of the day. Paris was [?] a few nights age by such an [?] that every [?] supp[?] the [?] he in his own [?]…

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