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

Fires & bushfires, 1878

27 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 2

Fire at Riga. London, August 27

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 September 1878 · page 2

A disastrous fire has occurred at Riga…

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Goulburn Fire Brigade

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 October 1878 · page 4

ON Saturday afternoon last the two engines connected with the above brigade paraded the principal street of this city, headed by the Oddfellows’ Band; and then proceeded down Bradley-street…

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Dreadful Scene at a Fire in Birmingham

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 19 October 1878 · page 7

AN alarming fire, attended with a loss of three, if not four, lives, occurred at Digbeth, Birmingham, late on Monday. About twenty minutes to eleven o'clock, as visitors to the…

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Almost a Fire

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 October 1878 · page 3

SHORTLY before ten o’clock yesterday morning the large stack of wood belonging to Meessrs. J. and J. Hayes of the City Mills, had a very narrow escape of being consumed…

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Goulburn Fire-Brigade

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 October 1878 · page 4

THE usual monthly practice in connection with the above has been arranged to take place at half-past four o’clock this (Saturday) afternoon ; and with that object in view the…

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Fire at Parkes

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 October 1878 · page 2

PARKES, Tuesday.—Mr. Coleman’s premises in Forbes-street were burned to the ground last night about midnight. Messrs. Manson and Burney’s premises adjoining, and almost…

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Stables on Fire

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 November 1878 · page 12

A CONFLAGRATION occurred about one o’clock on Thursday morning, resulting in the total destruction of some stables rented on behalf of the Post-Office authorities, near St. James’ School, in Castlereagh…

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