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

Fires & bushfires, 1876

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A [?] Fire at [?]

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 26 July 1876 · page 4

[?] .—This [?] was to-day written by a [?] The entire [?]…

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Goulburn Fire Brigadi

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 August 1876 · page 2

ON Monday evening a meeting was held in the council [?] in the progremme of ad[?]ting caperman, un[?], and firemen of the Gulburn Fire-Brigadi. The auperintendent, Mr. W.m. During, and the…

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Fires

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 19 August 1876 · page 8

The month of Juno has maintained its evil celebrity for great. fires in all parts of the world. At the close of the second week there was a large fire at Bermondsey, in which…

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Fire in Canterbury Cathedral

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 August 1876 · page 4

ON June 5 the greatest excitement was caused in Canterbury by a rumour that the cathedral was on fire. For several days past workmen have been engaged in…

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Inquest on a Fire

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 September 1876 · page 2

INQUEST ON A FIRE.—Last Saturday the coroner (Mr. A. M. Bette) hold an inquiry at Morowollen concerning the circumstances under which the dwelling-house of Mr. William Drennan had been…

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Goulburn Fire-brigade

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1876 · page 4

The sub-committee of the Goulburn fire-brigade lately appointed to effect the purchase of the large engine offered for sale by Mr. Bown of Sydney have completed the purchase…

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Goulburn Fire-brigade

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 October 1876 · page 4

Information has been received by the secretary that the new engine recently purchased by the brigade will reach Goulburn this afternoon in charge of members of Mr. Charles…

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The New Fire-engine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1876 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon last the large and new fire-engine which was lately purchased for our local Volunteer Fire Brigade from Mr. Bown of Sydney at a cost of £270, arrived by train together with…

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Goulburn Fire Brigade — Arrival of the New Engine

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 October 1876 · page 2

BY the afternoon train on Saturday the new engine lately purchased in Sydney by the Goulburn fire-brigade for £270 arrived in charge of Mr. Murray (foreman) and four other members of the Sydney…

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Fire at Archdeacon Puddicombe's Goulburn

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 8 November 1876 · page 2

Yesterday morning an old shed and stable, built of brick and roofed with bark, at the residence of Archdeacon Puddicombe known as Ottiwell in Mundy-street, were destroyed by fire. Adjoining the shed…

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Goulburn Fire Brigade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1876 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening a special meeting of the above brigade was held in the [?] is the chair was occupied by the [?] (he Mayor of Goulburn): and there was a very good…

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Prompt Detection of Fires

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 7

—The Janesville (Wis.) Gazette of April 11, thus announces an Automatic Fire Detector, claimed to have been invented in that city…

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Inquests on Fires

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 November 1876 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon last Mr. A. M. Betts (district coroner) held an inquest at the dwelling house of Arthur Ranken, Lockyersleigh, on the remains of a fire which had occurred there on the previous…

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The Late Fire at Lockyersleigh

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 November 1876 · page 2

THE LATE FIRE AT LOCKYERSLEIGH.—On Saturday Mr. Betts, coroner, held an inquest at Lockyersleigh touching the origin of a five by which a large wooden barn there, the property of Mr. Arthur Ranken, had…

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Fire

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 November 1876 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon as a son of Mr. Blackshaw's of Auburn-street was going up the yard at his father's house he observed smoke issuing from the back of Mr. Caro's premises adjoining. He at…

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