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

Fires & bushfires, 1890

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Destructive Fire at Cootamundra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 May 1890 · page 2

A destructive fire occurred in the centre of the business block of the town of Cootamundra at 7 o'clock on Wednesday night. It originated in Mr. Thomas Mangan's Clarendon Store…

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Destructive Fire a Cootamundra

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 May 1890 · page 2

A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred in the centre of the business block of the town on Wednesday at 7 o'clock. It originated in Mr. Thomas Mangan's Clarendon Store. Terrific excitement was caused,…

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Destructive Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 2

A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred in the business block of the town of Cootamundra on Wednesday night. It originated in Mr. Thomas Mangan's Clarendon Store…

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The Fire at the Rev. H. Dunlop's

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 3

FLORENCE SINCLAIR, a domestic servant, aged 13, was charged on remand, at the Parramatta Police Court, on Wednesday, with maliciously setting fire to the…

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The Late Fire at Cootamundra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1890 · page 4

COOTAMUNDRA, Tuesday.—The inquest on the late fire was held to-day. There was no evidence to prove the origin of the fire. It was shown that an employee in Mr. Mangan's store went…

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Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 May 1890 · page 2

THE annual meeting of this prosperous Society was held on Friday, at noon, at the head office, corner of Pitt and King streets, when the report for the eighteenth…

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Terrible Fires in Russia. LONDON, June 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 June 1890 · page 6

Terrible fires have taken place throughout the Ural district, a province of Eastern Russia. It is estimated that 1000 houses have been destroyed in these conflagrations…

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New Fire Brigade Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 June 1890 · page 4

The erection of a new fire brigade station is to be commenced as soon as possible, and an effort will be made to have the building completed before Christmas. The building will have…

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Fire Brigade Station

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 24 June 1890 · page 2

THE erection of a new fire brigade station in Goulburn is to be commenced as soon as possible, and an effort will be made to have the building completed before…

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Fire at the Hospital

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 June 1890 · page 2

ON Wednesday morning the nurse in the female ward at the hospital discovered that the joist near the fireplace was alight. The alarm was raised and the fire soon extinguished. It is…

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Fire at Carcoar

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 July 1890 · page 2

CARCOAR, Monday.—Collard's large furniture warehouse and workshop, together with the private residence adjoining, were burnt to the ground on Saturday night. The fire is supposed…

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Fire at Walgrove

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 July 1890 · page 2

Some time during Saturday night, a fire occurred at Walgrove, the estate of Mr. Jas. Garner, by which the hay-shed containing a quantity of fodder, machinery, harness and…

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Destructive Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 11 July 1890 · page 2

ON Saturday night, at Carcoar, the large weatherboard building with an icon roof owned and occupied by Mr. Alfred Collard as a furniture and ironmongery store,…

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Fire in Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A fire occurred to-night shortly after 5 o'clock at Clausen and Foley's furniture warehouse, Bourke-street East, caused buy the accidental ignition of some curtains in…

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Goulburn Fire Brigade Board

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 August 1890 · page 2

THE following is the fifth annual report and balance-sheet of the Goulburn Fire Brigade Board:— the Chairman of the Goulburn Fire Brigades…

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Goulburn Fire Brigades Board

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 5 August 1890 · page 3

FOLLOWING is the report of the above for the year ended December 31, 1889, with statement of receipts and payments for the same period, as presented to parliament pursuant to…

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Cable News. Mount Athosion Fire. LONDON, Aug. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 August 1890 · page 3

A terrible fire broke out on Mount Athos, a lofty mountain in European Turkey, at the extremity of the peninsula of Macedonia. Whole forests were devastated…

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Fire at North Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 September 1890 · page 2

A fire broke out at North Goulburn on Wednesday afternoon on premises owned by Mrs. Craig and rented by Mr. Denny as a produce store. The flames originated in the chaff-house…

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Fire in Clarence-street

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 19 September 1890 · page 2

ON Wednesday morning a destructive fire broke out in the warehouse of Messrs. J. A. Bull and Co., wholesale grocers, Clarence-street. The alarm was given to…

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A Roof on Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 September 1890 · page 3

YESTERDAY about mid-day the shingled roof of a house in Goldsmith-street occupied by Mr. Cheeseman—the end one of the terrace opposite the Wesleyan parsonage—caught fire, it is…

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