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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1896

7 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Bush Fires

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 9 January 1896 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT sends us the following:—For the past week bush fires have been [?]ging throughout the district, destroying a great quantity of grass and…

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Bush Fires

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 16 January 1896 · page 3

IN addition to the bush fires reported in our last, a fire also swept over Quinburra, by which Mr. C. Rozynski, and others, lost a quantity of grass and…

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Fire on a West Australian Steamer

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 16 January 1896 · page 4

PORTLAND reports that the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Cintra, bound for West Australia, arrived in the buy at that port between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday…

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Fire at Nelbo Hery

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 6 February 1896 · page 3

ON Saturday night last, or early on Sunday morning, a fire occurred at Nelbothery, by which a shed contained 30 [?] of wool, the property of Mr. M…

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A Terrible Fire

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 27 February 1896 · page 4

A FinE broke out on "Wednesday night in a building in which an artists' ball was being held at Santarem, a town 46 miles from Lisbon…

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Destructive Fire at Richmond

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 16 April 1896 · page 5

AN alarm of fire was given on Friday, afternoon at about three o'clock, and attention was soon directed to the stables of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College…

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Destructive Fire at Belfast

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 6 August 1896 · page 4

A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred on Sunday night in the workshops in the shipbuilding yards of Messrs. Harland and Wolff at Belfast…

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