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

Fires & bushfires, 1877

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Destructive Fire in Yass

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 January 1877 · page 2

ON Sunday night, or rather early yesterday morning, a destructive fire took place in Yass, when the two-storey stone building occupied by Mr. Goorge Hill, boot and shoemaker, was…

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Destructive Fire in Yass

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 17 January 1877 · page 4

On Sunday night, or rather early on Monday morning, a destructive fire took place in Yass, when the two storey stone building occupied by Mr. George Hill, boot and shoo…

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Inquest on the Recent Fire in Cooma-street

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 January 1877 · page 2

ON Thursday last the district coroner, Dr. Blake, held an inquisition at the Yass Hotel (Mr. Mote's) for the purpose of ascertaining how and by what cause the premises lately in the…

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Fire at Echuca

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1877 · page 6

Monday.—A diesstrook fire occurred at Echuca at a quarter past two this morning. The front shops of Harmer's temperance boarding-house took…

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Goulburn Fire-brigade

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1877 · page 3

THE first half-yearly meeting of the members of the above brigade wee held in the council chambers on Wednesday evening. The attendance was tolerable, but some of the members who would have attended…

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A River on Fire

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 7

It is said that a singular phenomenon can now be seen in Clarion county Pa., on a small stream known as the Catfish Run. For a long time the…

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Goulburn Fire-brigade

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 4

THE adjourned half-yearly meeting of the Goulburn fire-brigade was held at the council chamber on Thursday evening immediately after the conclusion of the council business. The superintendent occupied…

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[?]E Down's Report on Fires

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 March 1877 · page 4

THE [?] of the talk is [?] the [?] out of a the [?] the [?] of a [?] slow in [?] and the [?] of that…

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Great Fire at Young

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 13 March 1877 · page 2

YOUNG, Tuesday morning. At a late hour last night a fire took place in the buggy factory and blacksmith's shop of Mr. Lancashire, Lynch-street. It…

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Another Fire at Young

The Burrowa News · Saturday 17 March 1877 · page 2

At about 11 o'dock on Monday evening the inhabitants of this town were aroused by an alarm of fire, and there was a general rush to the locality. It appears that some of the workmen…

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Disastrous Fire at Young

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 March 1877 · page 6

MANY of our readers will doubtless recollect the disastrous fire which occurred here in April, at which time many of the principal business establishments in town were destroyed. Nothing daunted however…

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A Coal-pit on Fire

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 April 1877 · page 4

A Most disastrous fire occurred at Messrs. Roscoe and Lord's Stonehill, Colliery, Worsley Road, Farnmouth, near Boston, on Jan. 23, by which seventeen lives were…

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Destructive Fire in George-street, Sydney

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 April 1877 · page 4

ABOUT four o'clock on Monday morning a fire broke out in Messrs. J. G. Hanks and Co.'s grocery establishment, 520, George-street, opposite the central police-station, which resulted in the total destruction…

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Fire Brigade Concert

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 2 May 1877 · page 2

A CONCERT in aid of the Fire Brigade funds was given in the hall of the mechanics' institute on Saturday evening. The concert was got up by the members of the Half-Holiday Association and was…

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The Great Fire in the City of Montreal

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 14 July 1877 · page 7

ON the morning of April 29 one of the most disastrous fires that ever took place in Montreal broke out in a building situated at St. Urbain-street and occupied by the Oil…

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Fires

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 July 1877 · page 4

46. No person shall make or knowingly permit to be made, any fires in the open air, except in properly constructed fireplaces or furnaces, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds…

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SECTION 2. Municipal Fire-Brigade

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 July 1877 · page 4

1. The brigade shall consist of a superintendent, two captains, four engineers, and sixteen firemen, hon. secretary, and hon. surgeons; and of honorary members who subscribe at least one guinea annually…

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The Goulburn Fire-brigade

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 July 1877 · page 4

HELD their [?] half-yearly meeting on Wednesday evening last in the municipal council chamber. The chair was occupied; by the [?] Mr. William Davins, and [?] was a fair attendances of…

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Great Fire at St. John's, New Brunswick

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 August 1877 · page 4

NEW BRUNSWICK, June, 21.--The greater part of this town has been destroyed by conflagration, which broke out at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at York Point. The…

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Fire

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 22 August 1877 · page 2

On Saturday evening shortly after night o'clock the citizens were alarmed by hearing the sound of the fire-bull. On making inquiry it was found that a stack of hay the property of Mr. S…

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