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

Fires & bushfires, 1874

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

Fire

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 January 1874 · page 2

About twenty minutes to one o'clock on Saturday morning flames were observed to be issuing from the stables at the rear of Mr. Metcalfe's High School, Sloane and Clinton streets, formerly…

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Fire in Cooma-street

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 February 1874 · page 2

AT about 3.30 a.m. on Wednesday, a fire which might have proved of most serious character, broke out in the kitchen attached to the White Horse Inn, in Cooma-street, kept by Mr. James Carpenter,…

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Fire at Gundary Creek

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1874 · page 2

THE district coroner (A. M. Betta, Esq.) held an inquisition on Saturday last at Gundary Creek, on view of the remains of premises belonging to Daniel McLaughlin, which were lately destroyed by fire…

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Ships on Fire in the Mersey

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 3 June 1874 · page 4

From half-past nine o'clock on Wednesday night to eleven, the ,Mersey, between New Brighton and Tranmere, presented one of the…

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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 24 June 1874 · page 2

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Great Fire in London

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 5 August 1874 · page 4

GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.—A large factory, situate in Leather-lane, Holborn, owned by Mr. Charles Cadby, was on Wednesday night destroyed by fire. The alarm…

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Oil-fires in America

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 October 1874 · page 8

OIL-FIRES IN AMERICA.—The New York papers of the 11th July report a destructive fire on the previous evening at the Weehawken oil-yards, New Jersey, struck by…

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The Late Destructive Fire in Auburn-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 November 1874 · page 2

ONE of the most destructive conflagrations it has ever been our lot to chronicle took place on Saturday morning last in the building occupied by the Bank of New South Wales, situated in…

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Destructive Fire in Auburn-street

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 4 November 1874 · page 2

SHORTLY after ten o'clock on Saturday morning last the townspeople were alarmed by the ringing of the fire-bell: end the news at once spread that the Bank of New South Wales, situated at the corner of…

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Great Fire in Goulburn

The Burrowa News · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 2

A destructive, and at one time, a very alarming fire occured in Goulburn last Saturday in the forenoon. The wind was blowing very strongly when about 10 o'clock an alarm was given, and it was…

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Fire

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 November 1874 · page 4

WE have been instinctively drawn to the consideration of the fearful perils of fire. The hot and blustering wind on Monday, with tile warning example of tile recent…

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Fire-brigade

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 3

A MEETING was hold in the council chamber on Thursday evening for the purpose of taking steps to form a tire-brigade. The hour named in the advertisement was half-past seven. After waiting till…

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Disastrous Fire at Windsor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Friday 25 December 1874 · page 2

ABOUT a quarter to two o'clolck on Wednesday a most disastrous fire broke out at Windsor. The fames being fanned by a furious westerly wind, spread rapidly from house to house, until by…

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The Disastrous Fire at Windsor. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 4

WITHOUT doubt the most alarming and disastrous conflagration that was ever witnessed here, and probably in any other town in this colony, occurred on Wednesday last, A heavy gale was blowing…

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Fires and Wooden Bridges

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 4

The following from the Gundagai Tunes shows the necessity of people being careful in the use of matches. It also leads one to reflect on the folly of building wooden…

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