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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1871

4 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

The Careless Use of Fire Act

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1871 · page 2

WHEREAS the reckless and negligent use of Fire is attended with great danger end caught to be [?]. It is enacted as follows:— 1. If any person shall excent as herein after…

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Colonial Items. Destructive Fire in Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 3

HARDLY had the first of the Rifle Volunteers, after a heavy exercise in marital tactics on the chief headlands of the harbour, and of the spectators who…

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Colonial Items. Fire in Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 3

ABOUT ten minutes past 12 o'clock on Friday afternoon, 7th instant, information was received at the station of the Insurance Fire Brigade, in Bathurst-street, that a…

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Fire in Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1871 · page 1

ABOUT twenty minutes past 2 o'clock. on Friday morning, 3rd instant, constables Kerr and Kelly, of the Cumberland-street Police Station, were on duty…

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