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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
12 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers
Was it not Sydney Smith who said, in writing of the lamentable carelessness and indifference, shown by railway companies, in all matters concerning the lives of the passenger public, that there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW acts of parliament that have special interests under cars are often little considered even by persons who are most concerned. Few are they who choose to wade through that legislative lore that concerns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HER Majesty's Theatre, one of the handsomest in London, was burnt to the ground on Friday night. The Times gives the following description of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The British ship Earl Dalhousie, in command of Captain Campbell, arrived yesterday from London, and during the voyage had a fire amongst her cargo, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THREE determined attempts were late on the night of December 14, or early the following morning, to set fire to promises in the metropolis, by means of the compound…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ACCOUNTS of Experiments, showing that violent conflagrations may be extinguished by very small quantities of water, by means of buckets or small hand-pumps. By M. Van…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE have to chronicle one of the most melancholy disasters that has ever taken place In our city. A fire took place yesterday morning (August 2nd) in one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday morning a fire broke out in a row of thatched cottages in Bury-street, Stowmarket, Suffolk, by which no fewer than eighteen cottages were destroyed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the 14th instant the most extensive fire ever known in Callao broke out about nine o'clock in the evening, originating it is believed in the Hotel Confianza, situated in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Duke of Sutherland. les not the first nobleman who has had a state for attending, conflagrations. For "Lord" Craven, in King Charles II.'s…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.-- The late disastrous fire appears to have aroused the attention of the inhabitants of Yass to the necessity of providing against the ravages of a similar calamity. With their usual unanimity and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE unusual, and therefore the more dreade cry of “Fire, fire,” echoed through our tow: early on Sunday morning, creating a consternation not easily to be described. Those who…
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