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

Fires & bushfires, 1894

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The Late Fire

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 July 1894 · page 2

LAST Friday week Mr. John Sheekey of the Salutation Inn, had his large dining-room completely destroyed by fire. The property was insured in the Australian Mutual Office…

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Fire Brigades Board

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 July 1894 · page 2

MR. A. M. BETTS has been gazetted a member of the Fire Brigades Board, Goulburn…

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Fire Brigades Board

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 July 1894 · page 2

MR. A. M. BETTS has been gazetted a member of the Goulburn Fire Brigades Board…

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Fire at Engineer's Hotel

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 1 August 1894 · page 3

The inquest on the fire at Engineer's Hotel was resumed to-day and adjourned to Friday, as an important witness cannot be found…

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Disastrous Fire in Wisconsin. London, July 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 August 1894 · page 4

A disastrous forest fire in the State of Wisconsin, in America, has destroyed a large amount of property. Farmers and others have suffered severely…

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Woolshed Destroyed by Fire

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 August 1894 · page 5

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Telegrams. Sydney and Colonial. Sydney, Friday, 3 p.m. Large Fire

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 August 1894 · page 5

LARGE FIRE. MESSNS. Brown and Topaon's steam joinery workso on the Lono Cove Bond were destroyed by Gro his morning. One hores won burnod…

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Destructive Fire

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 August 1894 · page 2

A FIRE of a more than usually destructive character, and certainly constituting the most serious disaster of the kind witnessed in the town for some years past, occurred at an early hour on…

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Fire at Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 August 1894 · page 6

YOUNG, Wednesday.—About 3.25 o'clock this morning a destructive fire occurred at Mr. Bourke's bakery shop, burning two adjacent buildings occupied by Mr. Burgess (saddler), Mr. Moriarty…

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Fire Inquest

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 August 1894 · page 2

THE inquest touching the cause and origin of the fire which occurred in Burrowa-street, and by which three tenements belonging to Mrs. T. Hayes were totally destroyed, was held before Mr. T…

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Fire at Hodgkinson's Store

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 August 1894 · page 3

A REWARD of £50 (in addition to £50 offered by tho Fire Underwriters' Association) has been offered by the Government for such information as shall lead to the…

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Great Fire in Canton. London, Aug. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 2

A conflagration has taken place amongst the Chinese boats on the Pearl River at Canton, on which many thousands of inhabitants reside. The fire spread with great rapidity, and produced…

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Great Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Herald · Monday 3 September 1894 · page 2

THE premises of Messrs. John Lawler and Sons, situated in George-street, Brickfield-hill, and occupied as a furniture warehouse, were totally destroyed by fire on Saturday…

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Fire at West Goulburn Parsonage

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 2

AT about half-past 10 o'clock on Saturday night a fire was discovered in the forage-room attached to the West Goulburn parsonage. Canon Soares was away at Marulan, for which place he left at 5 p.m…

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The Fire at Lawler's Building

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 2

IT was not till almost noon on Monday that the firemen ceased playing water on to the ruins of Lawler's building, George-street, which on Saturday night had been destroyed. By that time all the…

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Disastrous Fire in Texas. London, Sept. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 2

News from the United States reports a terribly disastrous fire in the town of Austin, the capital city of Texas, and containing a population of about one millions souls…

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Great Fire in George-street, Sydney. a Fireman Killed.—10 Buildings Wrecked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 4

A DISASTROUS fire, resulting in the death of a fireman and the total destruction of premises and stock of the value of about £40,000, occurred at Messrs. John Lawler and Sons' furniture warehouse and bedding…

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The Fires in America

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 5 September 1894 · page 2

FURTHER dispatches from America give fuller details of the appalling forest fires that have devastated the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin. It has been ascertained that…

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The Late Fire

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 5 September 1894 · page 3

The iron safes have been recovered form the ru[?] of Lawler's five. When they were opened some of the articles were found to be scorched, and water was found in the…

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Great Fire in Sydney

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 September 1894 · page 3

THE promises of Messrs. John Lawler and Sons; situated in Goorge-street, Brickfield-hill, and occupied as a furniture warehouse, were totally destroyed by fire on Saturday evening…

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