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Illawarra · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1876

12 stories in Illawarra's papers

The Great Fire at Wellington, N.z

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1876 · page 4

AT about five o'clock yesterday morning (says the Wellington Evening Post, of March 27), a fire broke out in Messrs Turnbull and Co.'s back store, Willis-street…

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Fires

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 August 1876 · page 2

The month of June has maintained its evil celebrity for great fires in all parts of the world. At the close of the second week there was a large fire at Bermondsey, in which seven valuable horses…

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Fires

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1876 · page 4

The month of June has maintained its evil celebrity for great fires in all parts of the world. At the close of the second week there was a large fire at Bormoudsey…

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A Fatal Fire

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1876 · page 4

Marquette (Mich), July 10.—The steamer St. Clair, of Ward's line, while on her down trip from Duluth, took fire while off Fourteen-mile Point, between Ontonagon and…

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Terrible Fire in Scotland

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1876 · page 4

A fire, attended with terrible loss of life, occurred on the 28rd June at Ayr, at the carpet manufactory and wool works of Mr. J. Templeton, The premises comprised…

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News by the Last Mails. Destructive Fires in London

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1876 · page 4

A SERIOUS fire occurred in a large bonded warehouse in Upper Thames-street, commonly known as Brook's Wharf, having an extensive river frontage, and being in the…

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Great Fire at Blenhiem New Zealand (Evening News.)

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 12 September 1876 · page 4

WE learn from New Zealand papers just to hand, that there was a great fire at Blenheim. The site was Mr. C. H. M. Elwain's premises opposite to Ewart's Hotel, from…

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Disastrous Fire in London

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 26 September 1876 · page 4

London, August 10.—The extensive establishment of Grant and Co., engravers, lithographers, and publishers, was burned to-night. The loss is estimated at a million…

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At the Chelsea Fire

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1876 · page 4

THE following graphic sketch of the scene at a London street-fire is reprinted from the London Daily Telegraph—July 20. Among many destructive fires which…

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Fire at the Centennial

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 October 1876 · page 4

Philadelphia, August 26.—Early this morning a fire broke out in the sheds used for storing exhibit boxes near the Centennial grounds. The fire raged several hours,…

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Prompt Detection of Fires

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1876 · page 4

THE Janesville (Wis.) Gazette, of April 11, thus announces an Automatic Fire Detector, claimed to have been invented in that city For several years Rev. H. Stone…

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Walking in Fire

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 7 November 1876 · page 4

Mr. Oesterg, an inhabitant of Stockholm (says the Review), is the inventor of a dress and apparatus by which a man is enabled…

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