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

Fires & bushfires, 1858

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

Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Company

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1858 · page 3

THE twenty-second Annual General Meeting of the proprietors was held, pursuant to the provisions if the deed of settlement, oil the eleventh day of February, 1858, in the…

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Fatal Fire

The Yass Courier · Saturday 19 June 1858 · page 4

The most terrible fire that has occurred in the metropolis for many years, took place on the morning of Sunday, the 28th March. The scene of the calamity was…

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Great Fire at Christiana

The Yass Courier · Saturday 19 June 1858 · page 4

ACCORDING to telegrams from Hamburg and Berlin, Christiana, the capital of Norway, was the theatre of a terrible conflagration on the night between the 13th and…

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Great Fire at Christiana

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Wednesday 7 July 1858 · page 2

According to telegrams from Hamburg and Berlin, Christiana, the capital of Norway, was the theatre of a terrible conflagration on the night between the 18th and 14th instant…

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Local Intelligence. Death From Injuries Received by Fire

The Yass Courier · Saturday 7 August 1858 · page 2

ON Thursday afternoon an inquest was held before the District Coroner and a jury in the White Swan Inn, here, touching the death of Mrs. Smith Reid, who died from the…

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