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

Fires & bushfires, 1896

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"Fire and Sword in the Sudan."

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 1

Rudolph C. Slatin (now known as Statin Pasha), the Australian soldier who escaped from captivity in the Sudan in February, 1895, has published…

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A Flour Mill Destroyed by Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 April 1896 · page 2

ALBURY, Friday.—At an early hour this morning a flour mill, owned by Mr. Samuel Pike, and situated on the Wodonga-road, was discovered to be on fire. The building was a very old one, and…

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A Whole Family Injured by a Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 April 1896 · page 4

A burning fatality happened on Thursday morning at the residence of Mr. Edward Gosnell, warehouseman, Bridge-street, Marrickville. All the members of the family were injured, and death…

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Proposed Fire Brigade Conference

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 4

WAGGA, Thursday.—The Wagga fire brigade have decided to communicate with the country volunteer brigades with a view of holding a conference of delegates for the purpose of arriving at some…

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Moss Vale Fire Brigade

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 April 1896 · page 2

THE Mayor of Moss Vale, accompanied by Alderman Clifard, walted on the colonial-secretary on Friday, and asked for a grant of money to enable the Moss Vale Fire Brgiade…

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Fire Inquiry

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 3

AN inquiry was held in the Police Court on Friday afternoon last, before the district Corner, Mr. T Foley, P. M., relative to who origin of a [?] on Monday, the 13th inst., at the residence of Mr…

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Two Ships on Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1896 · page 4

THE wooden ship Ellen A. Read left Newcastle on Thursday with a cargo of 2000 tons of coal, and when 140 miles off the coast on Friday morning it was discovered that the cargo Bas on fire. She put…

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Fire at Captain's Flat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1896 · page 2

OUR correspondent writes:—A fire broke out here on Sunday about midday in a pile of dry billet wood, stacked at a convenient distance from the engine-room at the company's furnace, and but for…

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Fire at Tumut

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 May 1896 · page 3

ABOUT four o'clock on Tuesday morning an alarm of fire was rained, the cause being the burning of the Beehive Hotel, Tumnt. The whole of the premises, stock, and furniture,…

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Fire at the Australia Hotel

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 May 1896 · page 3

A fire occureed this morning at the Australia Hotel. It orignated in the pantry on the third floor. The energetie labour of this employes suydeed the flames before the…

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Moss Vale Fire Brigade

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 June 1896 · page 4

SUPERINTENDENT BEAR paid a visit to Moss Vale last week and spent a considerable time with the Moss Vale Fire-Brigades Board, conferring as to…

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The Sutton Forest Fire

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 June 1896 · page 2

SUTTON FOREST, Tuesday.—An inquest in regard to the recent fire here was held yesterday by the coroner, Mr. A. D. Badgery, J.P. The building burnt down was a…

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Fires on Coal-laden Ships

Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 June 1896 · page 4

PREMIUMS on coal risks from Newcastle have advanced considerably in consequence of recent burnings at sea. A report by the mail from London…

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How a Western Australian Lost His Money. a Constable Fires Two Shots

Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 June 1896 · page 4

HERBY PAETLEY, who has recently arrived in Sydney from Western Australia, was induced on Monday to part with £120 under very simple…

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A Constable Fires on Two Fugitives

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 June 1896 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon Constable Harper noticed a couple of men proceeding along Darling-street, Ultimo, with a small box carried by one of them. He had his suspicions aroused that the men had…

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Telegrams. Sydney and Colonial. Sydney, Wednesday, 4 p.m. Large Fire

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 June 1896 · page 3

A LARGE fire occurred in Clarence-street, Sydney, about six o'clock this morning. A block of five - story warehouses opposite the police station occupied by…

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Large Fire Insydney

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 2

A large fire occurred in Clarence-street; Sydney, about six o'clock on Wednesday morning. A block of five-strory warehouses opposite the police station, occupied by…

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The Fire at the Australian Store

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 July 1896 · page 2

Arran The fire a law months back at the Old Australian Stores when Miss Hill who occupied a portion of the premiers was burned out, the [?] companies concerned and…

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Fire Near Bowning. Two Children Nearly Burnt to Death

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 2

ON Friday night last the residence of Mr. G. Wilson, near Bowning, together with his two infant children (twins) had a narrow escape from destruction by fire. Some two months…

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Great Fire in a Belfast Shipping Yard. London, July 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 July 1896 · page 4

A disastrous fire has occurred in the workshops at Messrs. Harland and Wolf's shipbuilding yards, Belfast. Several large vessels which were on the stocks at…

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