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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1855

7 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

The Fire at Memel

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1855 · page 4

The dreadful conflagration which has taken place here is at last subdued, and about £200,000 sterling has been destroyed. The shipping is all safe. All business is suspended,…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. Dreadful Fire at Newcastle, and Loss of Life

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1855 · page 3

The Times correspondent, writing from New-castle, gives the following account of a most fearful fire at Newcastle, attended with loss of life.—"A fire broke out this morning which…

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English News Three Days' Later News. the Siege of Sebastopol. Slackening of the Fire of the Besieged. Sebastopol a Mass of Ruins

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1855 · page 4

WE are in receipt of English news to November 12th, being three days' later than that received by the overland mail We copy the following from the Empire…

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Victoria. Another Extensive Fire at Port Philip

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1855 · page 4

A FIRE broke out in Collins-street yesterday morning, which has been attended with serious loss of property, both in buildings and merchandise. About at quarter to three o'clock,…

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Original Correspondence. Fire!! Fire!! To the Editor of the Goulburn Herald

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1855 · page 2

SIR,—Perfectly aware of your willingness to give publicity to any subject which may affect the general welfare of our flourishing township, I beg to draw the attention of my fellow-towns…

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Loss of the Brig Prince, by Fire

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1855 · page 2

The brig Prince, 268 tons, which was the property of Messrs. Francis Banfield and Sons, sailed from London for Algoa Bey, the 5th of last June, with a general cargo and the…

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Colonial Intelligence. the Dreadful Fire at Ballarat

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 15 December 1855 · page 1

IN our last week's paper we had only sufficient time and space to insert a brief epitome of the above shocking catastrophe, which has so suddenly destroyed the lives of several of our…

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