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Fires & bushfires, 1879

3 stories in Illawarra's papers

Miraculous Escape from Destruction by Fire

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1879 · page 4

WHAT for the time seemed the commencement of a serious fire occurred in our (the Queenslander) publishing rooms on Saturday last. The gas meter from which the…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Great Fire at Wellington. New Zealand

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1879 · page 4

ON the 17th Juno our correspondent telegraphed a brief message concerning the disastrous fire. We have now fuller particulars from the New Zealand papers…

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How a Woman Goes to a Fire

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 7 October 1879 · page 4

After balancing herself on the windowsill of a fourth storey window and betting it is oh the Fifth Avenue or the Bowery, or somewhere, "so now," she suddenly…

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