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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1880

16 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

My Lonely Little Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1880 · page 3

I AM weary i am weary! And the nights are long and d[?] There's little here that's chocry To must the heart's [?]…

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Fire at Cooma Creek

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1880 · page 3

THE thistles having become such a nuisance on a selection belonging to Mr. Thomas O'Brien, farmer, of Cooma Creek, he determined to take…

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Fire at Bungendore

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1880 · page 4

ON Sunday last a paddock adjoining the town of Bung[?], belonging to Mr. Pawell, in which a quantity of wheat, a stock of bay, a dray with sunday, sets of…

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A Woman on Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 11 February 1880 · page 3

A CARELESS man at the Teatree Racecourse threw down a lighted match after using it, and if fell on the dress of a woman who was standing by…

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Fire at Adaminaby

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 3

We hear that the business premises formerly occupied by Mr. E. Gaulway, in Seymour, were burnt to the ground on Saturday night…

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Pictures in the Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1880 · page 2

"SWEET Norah, come here, and lock into the fire; Perhaps in its embers good luck we may see;…

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Fire at Spring Plain. Narrow Escape. Victor Ryall Lost All

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 3

ABOUT midnight on Sunday, long after Mr. Victor Ryall and his family had [?] up rest, at his homestead at Spring P[?] on Kiandra [?], a boy who slept in the…

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Terrible Fire Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 7 July 1880 · page 3

MONDAY week's Evening News [?]:— Yesterday, about half-past 12 o'clock a terrible accident by fire happened to a woman named Annie M'Phail,…

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Gippsland Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1880 · page 3

LAST night, just as Mr. Duffy's meeting at the Victoria Hall was separating, a cry of "Fire!" was raised, and flames were seen issuing from the…

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Another Fire in Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 4

"MISFORTUNES trend upon each other's heels, so fast they follow," we are told, and fires in Sydney prove no exceptions to the rale. No sooner has the…

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Fire-procfing Cotton Fabrics

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 2

IN a paper on some conditions of inflammability, read before a sanitary convention in Michigan, Dr. Kedzie, of the State Board of Health, said that cotton clothing could be…

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Narrow Escape from Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1880 · page 3

ABOUT a quarter to 1 o'clock on Wednesday morning, the towns-people were alarmed by the cry of "Fire," and on turning out of bed…

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Fire at Dogkennel

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 6 October 1880 · page 3

DURING the heavy gale of wind that visited the district of Manaro on Saturday last, the house of Mr. Joseph Silk, of Dogkennel, was…

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Fires in Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1880 · page 4

THESE first occurred in Sydney during Saturday and Sunday. The first took [?] very early on Saturday morning, at [?]…

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Fire at Wagga Wagga

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 4

By far [?] fire that has over [?] in Wagga broke out at about 10 o'clock on Friday night, 15th october, in [?] street. The…

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Household. Don't Fan Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 2

If yon should some upstairs soem day and see a little [?]ldering fire just starting in one of your floors, stealing stealthily into the carpet, you would not be very likely to all…

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