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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1892

3 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Bush Fires

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 8

ALBURY, Tuesday.—A man named David O'Connor was charged at the police court to-day with the careless use of fire. The evidence submitted…

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The Cause of Bush Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 4

AT the Albury Police Court on Tuesday, David O Connor, an elderly man, who for four months past had been camped on the reserve at Kirndeen…

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Destructive Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1892 · page 7

On Thursday afternoon last a fire occurred at Woodstock, the residence of Mr. E. H. Litchfield, by which he lost a valuable stack of lucerne hay. It appears that Mr…

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