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

Fires & bushfires, 1887

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Municipal Fire Insurance. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 July 1887 · page 4

DEAR SIR,—The remark of "Siftings" in your issue of Saturday last re the gas are well worthy of note; but there in another matter which in my opinion is of greater importance,…

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Disastrous Forest Fires in America

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 19 July 1887 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from Chicago, dated May 28, to the San Francisco Chronicle, reports :— The Marquette, Mich., correspondent of the Times, in a dispatch announcing the…

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Serious Fire at Bega

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 July 1887 · page 2

A SERIOUS fire broke out at Boga at a quarter-past 12 on Sunday morning in the stables at the rear of Maenamara's Club Hotel, Carp-street. Both buildings were of wood. The stables and…

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Fire Insurance

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 22 July 1887 · page 2

AN agency of that old-established fire insurance company, the London and Lancashire, has been established in Crookwell under the management of Mr. W…

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New Fire Brigade Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 July 1887 · page 4

THE Fire Brigade Board have been granted a block of land having 25 feet to Montague-street, and situated near the Technical Class-room, for the erection thereon of a brigade station. At a…

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The Late Fire at Rogers' Arcade. Presentation to the Fire Brigade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 July 1887 · page 3

IT will be in the recollection of our readers that some ten months since a fire broke out in the stables at the rear of the Great Arcade, which luckily was extinguished without doing any…

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The Fire at Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 3

ON Thursday morning the unfortunate Chinaman who risked his life to save his child in the burning hut at Jembaicumbenc succumbed to the injuries he received. He was literally roasted…

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Fire in George-street, Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 4

AT 1.40 on Saturday afternoon it was reported at the Bathurst-street station of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade that a fire had broken out at 300 and 308, George-street, in the occupation of…

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The Fire at the Opera Comique

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 August 1887 · page 4

"Stella," referring to an after scene of the fire at the Opera Comique, says:— The work of examining the mass of cinders and ashes, which is all that is left…

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Great Fire in London. LONDON, Aug. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1887 · page 4

A disastrous fire broke out on the premises of Whiteley, the universal provider, on the Queen's-road, yesterday evening. The fire is still raging, the buildings having been almost gutted. It is…

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News by Cable. The Fire at Whitely's LONDON, August 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1887 · page 2

IT is estimated that the amount of damage done by the fire at Whitely's is fully half a million sterling. Three persons were killed during the progress of the fire, and a large number…

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Fire Brigade Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 August 1887 · page 3

THE ground on which the fire brigade station now stands having been added to the town hall site, it will be necessary to remove the building; but before this is…

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Gunning. Fire at Wheeo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 August 1887 · page 6

MR. N. T. COLLINS, District Coroner, held an inquiry on Friday last into the cause of the fire which destroyed a house, the property of Mr. P. Clancy, Wheeo, on the previous Monday night…

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Fire in Auburn-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 August 1887 · page 4

A FIRE broke out this morning about 11 o'clock in the roof of the Oddfollows' Hotel, which is shingled. The seat of the outbreak was near one of the chimneys, and it is supposed the fire…

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Destructive Fire at Auckland

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 3

A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Auckland on Thursday morning at Eden-terrace, in the suburbs of Auckland. Twenty small houses and a number of…

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Fire at Furner Brothers'

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 5

Shortly before eleven o'clock last night a fire occurred in the chaff-cutting and bay shed at the rear of Messrs. Furner Brothers' establishment, corner of Sloane and…

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Serious Fire at Furner Brothers'

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 4

A FIRE broke out last night in the produce department of Furner Brothers' extensive establishment, Bradley-street, which, but for the exertions of the fire brigade, would…

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Fire at Goulburn

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 2 September 1887 · page 2

ABOUT 11 o'clock last Friday night a fire broke out in Furner Brothers' produce depot Goulburn, where 30 or 40 tons of hay and a quantity of chaff, wheat and…

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Fatal Fire at Silverton

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 September 1887 · page 3

BROKEN HILL, Thursday.—Yesterday, at about 20 minutes past midnight, a fire broke out in Sturt-street, Silverton, in a four-roomed cottage owned by Mr. Joseph…

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