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

Fires & bushfires, 1867

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

Destructive Fire at Quebec

The Yass Courier · Saturday 12 January 1867 · page 4

DESPATCHES from Quebec to 16th October furnish the subjoin particulars of a most calamitous fire in that city: -- It seems that the lire began at four in the morning, in the house of…

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The Great Fire at Quebec

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 January 1867 · page 8

THE following particulars of the great fire have been received:—At four o'clock on the morning of the 11th a fire began in the house of Mr. Tr[?]del, grocer in St…

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Farmers' Fire Insurance

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 26 January 1867 · page 7

DAY after day during the past three or four weeks accounts of disastrous fires have been received from all parts of the colonies, some having been the results of accidental causes,…

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Calamitous Fire and Loss of Six Lives

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1867 · page 8

Early on Monday morning, March 11th, in the neighbourhood of Old Quebecstreet, Oxford-street, a fire occurred, by which six persons lost their lives and…

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Fire Insurance.—the Goulburn Circular. To the Editor of the Empire

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 July 1867 · page 3

SIR,—Seeing in your paper of the 6th instant a paragraph headed as above, intimating that a circular had been issued by a number of influential gentlemen, inviting the co-operation of persons residing in…

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The Proposed New Fire Insurance Company

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 July 1867 · page 2

AT the present time the re-publication of some articles that appeared in the Goulburn Herald some years ago on fire insurance may be useful. The first is from the paper…

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The Proposed New Fire Insurance Company

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 24 July 1867 · page 4

THE following is the second article on the above subject re-published from a former issue of this journal:— No one can be loss disposed to undervalue…

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The Proposed New Fire Insurance Company

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 July 1867 · page 2

THE following is the third article on the above subject re-published from a former issue of this journal:— It is now exactly two years since attention…

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Goulburn Volunteer Fire Brigade

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 31 July 1867 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Goulburn Fire Brigade was held last Monday evening, the 29th instant, in the premises of Mr. Joseph Collins, Montague-street, Mr. R. Craig, son., in the chair, who having stated…

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Fire Insurance. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 September 1867 · page 2

SIR,—I presume the Fire Insurance Companies, having abandoned the tariff, will return the extra premiums to these who have paid them. Yours truly,…

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Great Fire at Nelson, New Zealand

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 November 1867 · page 4

We are indebted to the courtesy of G. Elliott, Esq., for the following telegram; which had been forwarded to the postmaster-general, and which he kindly permitted us to copy:—…

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The Great Fire at Montreal. (From the Montreal Gazette, August 20th.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 December 1867 · page 4

BETWEEN 12 and 1 o’clock on Sunday morning, August 18th, fire was discovered in one Middleton’s coal oil stores, on the line the Grand Trunk Station. The store…

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The Great Fire in Dundee

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 December 1867 · page 4

The following detailed account of the great fire in Messrs. Stephen and Simpson and Brown's shipbuilding yards, Dundee, on Tuesday night, the 8th October, is from the Dundee Advertiser:—…

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