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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1887

8 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Fire Near Billylingra. Coughlan and Corish's Store Burnt to the Ground. Loss Of Over £150

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 2

News reached town on Thursday evening that Messrs. Coughlan and Corish's store, on the railway line, near Billylingra was burnt to the…

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Coronial Inquiry. Fire on the Railway Line

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 1 June 1887 · page 2

ON Friday last an inquiry was held before the District Coroner, F. Montague, Ear., at Mr. Goggin's Hotel. Billylingrs, touching a tire which occurred on the premises of…

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Disastrous Fire in Bega. Abridged From the "Standard," July 20

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 27 July 1887 · page 4

A FIRE of considerable magnitude, but the result of which was at one time expected to be far more serious. occurred early on Sunday morning…

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Fire at Robinson's Woolshed

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 2

ON Tuesday, the 18th instant, Mr. W. R. Hepburn, Coroner for Buckley's Crossing, held an inquiry at Slapup, the residence of Alfred Robinson, touching the burning…

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Shipping Casualties a Barque on Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—About noon yesterday a fire broke out on board barque Mary Blundell, lying alongside the Australian wharf. The…

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Bush Fires

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 4

JERILDERIE, Wednesday.—A large bush fire broke out yesterday on the western side of Berrigan, raged furiously all day, and last night was…

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Fire in Vale-street

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 21 December 1887 · page 2

ON Sunday morning last the premises occupied by Mr. P. HEYLAND, storekeeper, and Mr. J. I. O'BEIRN, bootmaker, were disovered to be on fire…

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The Late Fire. MR. J. I. O'brien's Statement. Cooma, 22nd Dec. 1887. (To the Editor of the Manaro Mercury.)

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1887 · page 2

SIR,—In your of last Wednesday there appears to be a doubt as to where the fire originated I assert, on the statements sheady to hand of Miss Love, Messrs. W…

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