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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1905

165 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 9 of 9

Facts Fancies. Fatal Fires in May

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 5

On Thursday, 6th May, 1880, a fire, attended by lose of life, occurred at Derby, where the Grand Theatre, a new building, was burned down, and one of the actors…

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Fire on a Warship. Shell, Explodes

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 7

A fire was on the afternoon of the 10th October discovered in the foremost 6-in. shell room of H.M.S. Argonaut at Chatham, and Immediately after a 6-in…

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Bush Fires

Western Champion · Friday 29 December 1905 · page 10
Also in The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser

On Wednesday and Thursday of last week serious bush fires occurred in the Tichbourne district briefly mentioned in our last. On that day a fire…

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Bush Fires

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 4

A bush fire broke out early on Wednesday morning at Bowan Park. On Mr. Thomas Keenan a property at Cudal about 40 acres of grass, eight acres of crop, and a small…

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Disastrous Fire. a Race for Life

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 2

For the past few weeks bush fires have been continually breaking out in different parts to the north and south of Wyalong, causing much damage. Last week a strong…

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