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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1878

7 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Fire at Nimitybelle. NIMTTYBELLE

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1878 · page 3

THE billiard room and store attached to Joseph McKee's Royal Hotel, Nimitybelle, was discovered on fire at 4 o'clock this morning, and totally…

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Sousehold. Siftings From the Kitchen Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 2

"W[?] women grow old before our time," said a neighbour lately whose husband thinks a large dairy and no help a necessity in farm life. I thought of the cold and…

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Telegrams. Fire at Bombala. BOMBALA

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 3 July 1878 · page 2

CRAWSHAW'S hotel war discovered on fire in four places about daylight this morning. Three of the parlours of the hotel, the billiard room, and…

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Bombala. the Fire at the Imperial Hotel

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 July 1878 · page 3

THE enquiry on the fire ended on Tuesday night last, and the public are just as wise now as they Were before the fire commenced as to the…

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Rumour. Playing with Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1878 · page 2

BROWN and Jones are partners in the dry-goods business. One morning early, when Brown was wending his way from his residence to his place of business, he found…

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Sketcher. the History of Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1878 · page 2

WHO first made fire, how, when and where He was made, are past finding out, but this we do known, that fire was in common was at the earliest dates of which we have any…

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Terrible Fire at Cattle Creek

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 25 December 1878 · page 3

THE 'Dalby Herald's correspondent writing concerning this melancholy affair, days:—"About a quarter to 8 yesterday evening (December 5) the…

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