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

Fires & bushfires, 1907

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Big Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 August 1907 · page 2

A big fire occurred in Sussex-street shortly before midnight on Monday. The premises of Dudley and Co., Chas. A. Murray, and Turner and Co. were wholly destroyed. John Keep and Sons'…

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Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 August 1907 · page 2

SHORTLY before 12 o'clock on Monday night a fire broke out in a building in Sussex-street occupied by Turner and Co., wine and spirit merchants, tea and coffee importers, Mr. C…

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The Latest. Sydney, Saturday. Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 4

A weatherboard cottage, the residence of Mr. Walter Badman, at Campsie, was totally destroyed by fire last night. New Solicitors…

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Government Fire Insurance

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 28 August 1907 · page 2

carrying on business in New Zealand has been on exceedingly precarious one since the Government, opened a fire inSurance department there (says the…

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Great Fire in Japan

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 28 August 1907 · page 2

A telegram from Tokie state that a fir is raging at Hakodate, and that three fourths of the town has been destroyed…

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Hence Fires

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 6

Dust is a wonderful producer of fires. There are instances on record in post offices where the dust of the mail bags suspended in a close room exploded with…

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Livery Stable Fire

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 2

A fire in livery stable at Paris burned 69 horses to death…

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The Latest. Sydney, Saturday. Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 August 1907 · page 4

Early this morning a fire broke out in a three storey brick warehouse in Sussex-street, occupied by Messrs. Prescott and Company, produce merchants and commission agents. The top floor…

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The Hakodate Fire

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 September 1907 · page 2

The losses through the fire which occurred at Hakodato, Japan, totalled three million sterling. Sixty thousand people were rendered…

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Fire at Bowral. Brigade Powerless

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 September 1907 · page 4

The Bowral fire brigade received a call at 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning to an untenanted six-roomed brick and weatherboard cottage situated on Jamieson Hill…

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The Antwerp Fires

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 4

The timber fires, caused by the strikers in Antwerp, are still raging. The damage already done is estimated at several million france…

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Fire at Narrabri. Railway Station Destroyed

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 September 1907 · page 3

Narrabri railway station building, comprising parcels of office, ticket office, vestibule, and ladies' waiting-room, together with the whole contents,…

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Murwillumbah Swept by Fire. Fifty-nine Buildings Destroyed. Families Homeless. Damage, £100,000. SYDNEY, Monday, 1.52 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 September 1907 · page 3

A DISASTROUS fire broke out at Marwillamb[?]h, on the Tweed Riverm last night, practically the whole town being dovastated. The outbreak occurred at 8.30, and the flames…

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Big Fire at Bangalow

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 2

Bangalow, Monday.—A disastrous fire occurred in Bangalow this morning at 4 o'clock. Four shops and the Bank of New South Wales were demolished. The outbreak partly burnt the…

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Murwillumbah in Flames. Town Swept by Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 2

Murwillumbah, Monday.—After a spell of a number of years of unparalleled prosperity, Murwillumbah last night received a setback, which it will take a number of…

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TELEGRAMS. Town Destroyed by Fire. 59 Buildings Burned. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 4

A fire broke out at Murwillumbah, Tweed River, at 8.30 last night, and completely swept the town. Fifty-nine buildings were destroyed by fire, including the Banks of…

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Fire at Bangalow

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 4

A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Bangalow at 4 o'clock on Monday morning. Four shops and the Bank of New South Wales were demolished. The outbreak partly burnt the…

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Fire at Sea

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 4

THE steamer Oceana, which arrived in Newcastle Sunday under command of Captain Davies, from Victoria, B.C., had part of her bunker coal on fire when she entered port…

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The Murwillumbah Fire. Further Particulars

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 4

As reported by telegraph in Monday's issue, the town of Murwillumbah was devastated by a fire which broke out about half-past eight o'clock on Sunday night…

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Colonial and Intercolonial Sydney, Thursday. Disastrous Fire

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 2

The township of Murwillumbah was practically destroyed by fire this morning; 59 buildings consumed, including four banks…

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