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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1893

6 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

An Engine for Bush Fires

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 4

THE Pastoral Times, Deniliquin, describes a fire-engine (to be used principally for extinguishing bush fires) bought for the Cornalla holding:—The…

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Bush Fires

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 2

The particularly careless manner in fires are lighted and left burning bush has been exemplified by instances recently reported to the…

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Fire on the Mittagang Road a Sad Case

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 5

Yesterday (Monday) morning the house of Mrs.Rolfe, a poor window, on the Mittagang road, Cooma, was burnt to the ground, and all the contents were…

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The Fire on the Mittagang Road. Coronial Inquiry

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 10

A CORONIAL inquiry was held at the Cooma Court House on Thursday by Mr. M. S. Love, P.M. and Coroner, and a jury of 12 on the cause of the fire…

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Liability for Fires

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 14

A case of much importance to pastoralists farmers, selectors, and indeed all other persons who may have sustained losses through bush fires, was…

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Large Fire in Sydney. Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1893 · page 5

Biddell Brothers' confection manufactory has been partly destroyed by fire; three floors were gutted…

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