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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
15 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers
SIR,-- In the Southern Argus of January 1 there is a report of two meetings of the fire brigade. At the first a vote of thanks is passed to the retiring secretary: at the next, certain correspondence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHRISTMAS EVE. 1868, will be long remembered by those, who, on the morning of that memorable day, were preparing for holding the Christmas festival at Gladstone. The people of Sale,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANOTHER heavy calamity has fallen upon the Roman Catholic community of Sydney, in the total destruction by fire of the spacious temporary Cathedral of St. Mary's, with its varied and valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN inquiry respecting the destruction by fire of St. Mary's temporary cathedral on Tuesday morning last, was commenced before the city coroner on Friday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE adjourned inquiry into the cause of the late fire at the pro-cathedral of St. Mary's was resumed on Wednesday at the district court, before the city coroner and a jury of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BULLAROCK.—Very distressing news indeed has to be chronicled respecting the devastations of the bush fires which raged to the north-east of Ballarst on Saturday. For…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I understand that Mr. and Mrs. Whiting's loss is fairly computed at £120. Considering the difficulties of married men at a salary to sustain an appearance necessary for their position in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—After your able leading article in Wednesday's issue upon the subject of fires, but little remains to be said. However, after witnessing the confiagaration in Bourke-street, and the almost total destruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ANOTHER painful illustration of the perils of the deep, and of the dangers and disasters by which voyagers are sometimes overtaken, is furnished by the loss of the large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible scene occurred on the 20th of March, in the Cook County Gaol, Chicago, U.S. one cell there were five young coloured men, named George Washington (No. 1) George…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I GENERALLY take up my hunting quarters at the White Hart at Bastock. Do not he alarmed; I am not going to bore yon with a story of a run, or the praise of my horses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—There seems to ho no reason to doubt that Alderman Gale was right when he said the other day that the council wore afraid of people outside, though I am rather at odds with him as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OK Tuesday morning last, the inhabitants of the town were alarmed by the cries of fire. It was discovered that the stable of Mr. T. R. Watt in Burrowa-street was in flames. In a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,--Can you inform me if the Yass Fire Brigade, which made such a blaze some short time ago, with its superiniendent, foreman, secretary, trustees, and volunteer firemen, has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE regret to learn that a fire of a somewhat serious and nearly fatal character occurred at Cooradigbee, the station of Mr. J. Hannam, on the morning of Thursday last, between the…
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