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

Fires & bushfires, 1859

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

Disastrous Fire at North Melbourne. Fifty Houses Burnt Down

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1859 · page 1

ONE of the most extensive fires which has occurred in this city for some time, took place on Friday night last in North Melbourne, shortly after eleven o'clock. It…

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Thursday, March 31. by Electric Telegraph. Bobbery with Fire-arms, &C

The Yass Courier · Saturday 2 April 1859 · page 2

John Malloy, alias Walsh, alias "Jack-in Boots," charged with [?] fire-arms and prison breaking, was found guilty, and sentenced to five years' hard labour on the…

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