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

Fires & bushfires, 1900

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The Transvaal War. Overtures for Peace. Audacious Proposals of the Boers. Great Britain Will Formulate Her Own Terms. the Osfontein Rout. Presidents Under Fire. Kruger Weeping. Endeavours to Rally the Boers. Reported Resignation of Joubert. London, March 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 4

The Daily Mail stated that President Kruger and President Steyn have made audacious overtures to the Marquis of Salisbury, the premier, for peace…

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Battle of Driefontein. Another British Victory. Complete Rout of the Boers. Positions Carried at the Bayonet's Point. N.S.W. Cavalry Engaged. Advancing Under Heavy Fire. Pursuing the Vleeing Boers. Mobility of the Enemy. Remarkable Shifting of Guns. 6000 Boers Engaged. London, March 12

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 2

The 6th army division, commanded by Lieutenant-General Kelly-Kenny and obvalry troops under Lieutenant-Colonial R. G. Broadwood, fought a severe and…

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The Transvaal War. Advance on Pretoria. Enemy Slackening Fire at Mafeking. General Buller's Army. Forward Movement Imminent. London, March 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1900 · page 4

THE movement of Lieutenant-General Lord Methoen, who lately occupied Boshof, and who was last reported at Warrenton, is interpreted by military critics as being an…

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The War. Welcoming Sir A. Milner. Destroying the Railway. the Natives at Mafeking. Fire at Capetown. London, Monday Afternoon. Destroying a Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 March 1900 · page 2

When Lieutenant-General Gatacre was advancing on Bethulie from Burghersdorp the Boers destroyed the railway bridge across the river. The railway is now diverted and…

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Fire

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 28 March 1900 · page 2

ON Saturday Afternoon a fire occurred at Grenfell Road destroying nearly the whole of the premises of Mr. Thomas Quinn, hotelkeeper. The fire-was discovered in the…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1900 · page 1

Young, Monday.—On Saturday afternoon last Quinn's Hotel, on the Grenfell Road, about five miles from Young, was totally destroyed by fire, together with outbuildings,…

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The Fire [?] Qulnn’s

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 31 March 1900 · page 4

[?] Mr. Quinn’s residence [?] Mr. Robertson, P.M., Coroner for the district, and a jury of five, into the origin of the fire which occurred at…

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Boers Fire From Prepared Cover. How a Gun Was Saved

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 April 1900 · page 4

Rimington's Sconts, the artillery, and the wag. gone entered Doorn Spruit without having the slightest suspicion that the enemy was near. The Boers fired on the British from stone…

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The War. Bombardment of General Cronje. a Terrible Artillery Fire

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 1

The London Daily Telegraph of February 23 has the following:— "Throughout yesterday there was the keenest anxiety to ascertain the…

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The Federal Capital Site.—mr. Oliver at Corowa and Albury.—neither He Nor the N.s.w. Government But Only the Federal Goverment Can Decide.—fortifying the Capital.—preservation From Fire of the Public Archives

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 2

ACCORDING to a recent Corowa telegram in a metropolitan paper Mr. Oliver, the federal capital commissioner, the other day expressed a…

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Fire-brigade Demonstration

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 2

MR. LAWS, superintendent of Goulburn Fire Brigade, has received a letter from the Metropolitan Firemen's Association; Sydney, to which Goulburn brigade is attached, stating…

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Destructive Fire at Yeumhurra

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 2

MRS. JAS. DUFF sustained a very severe loss on Wednesday night, when the dining-room and a bedroom, at her residence, Yeumburra, with all their contents,…

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Proposed Fire Brigade Demonstration

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 4

THE Metropolitan Fire Brigade Association, to which the Goulburn Fire Brigade is attached, has sanctioned the holding of a demonstration in Goulburn, and they suggest that it should be held on…

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Local & General News. Destructive Fire at Yeumburra

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 2

ON Wednesday night last a very destructive fire took place at Yeumburra, the residence of Mrs. James Duff, whereby the whole of one portion of…

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Big Fire in Sydney. Falling Walls and Injured Firemen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 2

THE large and imposing premises occupied by J. R. Love and Co., tea merchants, in Bathurst-street, opposite St. Andrew's Cathedral, were, shortly before 1 o'clock this morning, attacked by a fire…

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Disastrous Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 2

SHORTLY before one a.m. yesterday a fire broke out in the four-storied warehouse of Messrs. J. R. Love and Co., grocers and tea merchants, Bathurst-street, Sydney…

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The Fire at J. R. Love and Co.'s

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 April 1900 · page 4

Twelve firemen were injured in the fire at Messrs. Love and Co.'s. Howard, whose condition was the most serious, was progressing well on Thursday afternoon. The origin of the fire is still a mystery,…

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Inquest on a Fire. an Open Verdict

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 2

AN inquest was held yesterday at the courthouse by the coroner Mr. H. O'Brien, touching a fire which took place on 12th April at the dwelling house of Martha Leigh in…

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Inquest on a Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 2

THE coroner, Mr. H. O'Brien, conducted an inquest at the Goulburn court-house on Tuesday touching a fire which occurred at the dwelling-house of Martha Leigh in Ellesmere-street on 12th inst. A…

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The Canadian Fires Attributed to Fenians

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 2

Particulars of the disastrous fires at Hull and Ottawa in Canada state that the fire is attributed to Fenian agency in sympathy with the Boers, and that incendiarism…

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