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

Fires & bushfires, 1890

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Disastrous Fire in Sydney. a Whole Block Ablaze. Enormous Destruction. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 October 1890 · page 2

ABNOUT two o'clock this morning a fire broke out in Gibbs, Shallard, and Co.'s printing establishment, Pitt-street, and spread with alarming rapidity, the flames bursting out in several…

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Great Fire in Sydney. a Million and a Quarter Damages. Sydney, Thursday, 11.41

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 October 1890 · page 2

The most calamitous fire ever recorded, in Australia occurred in Sydney this morning, between two and three o'clock. The fire originated in…

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Incidents of the Fire

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 4

The fire woke up the whole of the immediate neighborhood. By 4 o'clock in the morning sparks were falling like a shower of flery rain far into the Domain. Momentarily…

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The Great Fire. Further Details

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 4

THROUGHOUT Thursday night and all Friday streams of water were kept playing upon the remains of the promises which formed the food of the great fire; but the debris is still a mass of…

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Great Fire in Sydney. Immense Destruction of Property

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 4

THE greatest are recorded in the history of Sydney broke out between two and three o'clock on Thursday morning last, when an entire block of buildings was more or less…

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Tremendous Fire in Sydney. [Abridged From the “Echo.”]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 2

BETWEEN 2 and 3 o’clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Gibbs. Shallard and Co., printers and lithographers, between Pitt and Castlereagh streets, and resulted…

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Report of the Operations of the Fire Brigades

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 3

The call was received at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Castlereagh-street, at 29 minutes past 2 o'clock, from the General Post Office and the alarm-box in Pitt-street, opposite Messrs…

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The Great Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 7 October 1890 · page 3

THROUGHOUT Thursday night and all Friday streams of water were kept playing upon the remains of the promises which formed the food of the groat fire;…

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The Recent Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 October 1890 · page 2

MESSRS. LARK, SONS, AND Co., one of the sufferers by the recent fire, announce in our advertising columns that they have secured temporary promises at 20, York-street. This firm…

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The Recent Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 October 1890 · page 4

THE Corner has decided not to hold an inquiry into the cause or origin of the fire which commenced in Gibbs, Shallard, and Co.'s premises on Thursday last, and which destroyed…

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The Late Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 14 October 1890 · page 2

A REPRESENTATIVE deputation from the insurance companies and property-owners affected by the recent fire in Pitt-street was introduced to the Minister for Justice…

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A Terrible Explosion. Dreadful Scenes at a Fire

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 October 1890 · page 4

DREADFUL scenes were witnessed at a fire in East Fifty-sixth-street, New York, on September 3. The lower parts of two buildings there are used by Mr. Hagan as a…

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Fire in a Hat Factory. LONDON, Oct. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 October 1890 · page 4

By a fire in a hat factory at smithfield, near London, five girls employed in the place and one man were killed, besides which many were injured…

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Goulburn Fire Brigade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 October 1890 · page 4

A fire-brigade demonstration it to be held in Albury on Monday, 10th November, and a team will be sent from Goulburn to represent the local brigade. Mr. A. H. Judd, the…

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The Fire at the Haddon Rig Woolshed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 October 1890 · page 4

WARREN, Saturday.—An inquest was held to-day on the fire at Haddon Rig. Circumstances point to incendiarism, but no evidence was adduced at the inquest to connect anyone…

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Increased Rates for Fire Insurance

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 October 1890 · page 4

IN consequence of the unprofitable results of fire insurance business for some considerable time past, followed by the very exceptional loss by the great fire in Sydney on the 2nd of October…

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The Late Fire at Haddon Rig

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 October 1890 · page 2

AN inquest was held at Warren on Saturday on the fire at Haddon Rig. Circumstances point to incendiarism, but no evidence was adduced at the inquest to…

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Increased Rates for Fire Insurance

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 28 October 1890 · page 3

IN consequence of the unprofitable results of the fire insurance business for some considerable time past, followed by the very exceptional loss by the great…

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The Great Fire in Sydney

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 28 October 1890 · page 2

AT the inquest now proceeding on the recent fire, Mr. Gibbs (of Gibbs, Shallard and Co.) said in his evidence that he could not help thinking his establishment…

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The Sydney Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 4

The inquest into the circumstances surrounding the destruction by fire on the morning of the 2nd instant of a large block of buildings in Pitt-street was concluded on Tuesday. The…

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