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

Fires & bushfires, 1892

126 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 7

Fire at Kingsdale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 August 1892 · page 4

A FIRE occurred at Mr. Fred Shepherd's residence at Kingesdale early on Sunday morning, when the stables and coach-house at the rear of the house were almost entirely consumed. Mr. and Mrs…

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Great Fire in Dublin. London, Aug. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 August 1892 · page 4

The City Markets in Dublin have been destroyed by fire. Several adjoining houses were also burned down. The damage is estimated at £100,000. It is estimated that the Canadian wheat crop will…

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Large Fire at Forbes

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 September 1892 · page 4

A Large fire occurred in Rankin-street, F[?]b[?], between three and four o'clock on Wednesday morning, and resulted in the total destruction of…

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Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 September 1892 · page 2

THE grass in the southern end of Victoria Park was discovered to be on fire on Sunday afternoon by some children on their way to Sunday-school. They ran away for assistance at once and several…

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Fire in Canada. London, Sept. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 September 1892 · page 4

Telegrams from Canada give particulate of a fire which occurred yesterday in an hotel at Montreal A panic occurred among the inmates, and three were killed by jumping from the windows of the…

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Fire at Cootamundra

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 September 1892 · page 4

BETWEEN two and three o'clock on Friday morning the shops occupied by Messrs. Eagar and Son, tailors, H. A. Baufield, hairdreser and tobacconist, and H. Stiles, confectioner,…

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Fire Brigades' Competition

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 September 1892 · page 2

THE competition for the remainder of the events postponed from the demonstration of the Metropolitan Volunteer Firemen's Association on 9th and 10th of November last, was…

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The Late Fire at Cootamundra

Goulburn Herald · Friday 23 September 1892 · page 4

AN inquest was held on Tuesday last at Cootamundra before Mr. Barnes, coroner, touching the cause of the fire which destroyed the shops of Messrs. Eagar and Son, H. A. Banfield, and…

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Disastrous Fire Near New York. London, Sept. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 September 1892 · page 6

An extensive fire has just taken place at Rockaway Beach, a fashionable watering-place in Queen's County, New York, 18 miles from Brooklyn. By this fire about one hundred buildings…

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The Fire Brigade Trophy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 September 1892 · page 2

THE elegant shield won by the Goulburn Fire Brigade on last Saturday week is now on view in Messrs. Jerger and Son's window. It is a beautiful piece of work, and it is said in course of time it…

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Fires at Old Junee

Goulburn Herald · Monday 3 October 1892 · page 2

The Junce Democrat states that at daybreak, on Wednesday a large hotel at Old Junee, Known as the Enterprise, was totally destroyed by fire, the…

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Fire in America. London, Oct. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 October 1892 · page 4

From New York it is reported that a disastrous fire has occurred at Sioux City, the capitol of the County of Woodbury, in the State of Iowa. The whole place was practically destroyed and 600…

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Fire

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 4

THE vigorous clanging of the fire-bell at the central station shortly after two o'clock yesterday morning broke the peaceful slumbers of a great number of the townspeople, and…

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The Late Fire

Goulburn Herald · Monday 24 October 1892 · page 2

WE understand that Mr. O'Brian, coroner, purposes holding an inquiry into the origin of the fire which occurred on Thursday morning that in the stable at the rear of the Hibernian…

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The Late Fire. Coroner's Inquest

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 October 1892 · page 4

AN inquest was held the court-houe yesterday afternoon before the coroner, Mr. H. O'Brien, and a jury of tweive, touching the fire which occurred on the premises of…

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Fire at the Braidwood Presbytery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 October 1892 · page 2

A FIRE broke out on Tuesday afternoon, a little before 2 o'clock in the back premises of St. Bede's Presbytery. The church bell gave the alarm and there was a dense volume…

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The Recent Fire at Warn's Stable

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 October 1892 · page 6

AN inquest touching the fire which damaged the stables at the rear of the Hibernian Hotel on Thursday morning, 20th inst., was held at the Court-house on Thursday afternoon, before the…

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The Fire in America. London, Oct. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 November 1892 · page 2

The large area devastated by the disastrous conflagration at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A., is largely due to the delay of the fire brigades in get. ting their engines to work…

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Cable News. Great Fire in America. London, Oct. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 November 1892 · page 4

A tremendous fire has taken place at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (U.S.A.). Six hundred houses, the gas-works, and many business blocks of the town were destroyed…

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SYDNEY, Monday, 6. p.m. Fire at Liverpool Paper Mills

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 November 1892 · page 3

A FIRE occurred this morning at the paper mills, Liverpool, destroying a paper-shed and its contents, comprising about four hundred tons of rags and cuttings ready for the mill…

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