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Fires & bushfires, 1859

6 stories in Murray's papers

Colonial Intelligence. Fires in South Australia

The Border Post · Saturday 26 February 1859 · page 2

Our readers are now aware, from the accounts published in our columns during the last few days, that the country districts, extending from Barossa to Port Elliott, have been visited by the most…

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Colonial Intelligence. Dreadful Fire in Tasmania

The Border Post · Saturday 26 February 1859 · page 4

By the Black Swan we have Hobart Town and Launceston papers to the 12th inst The anniversary of Black Thursday was remarkable throughout Tasmania for the excessive…

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Great Fire at Ballarat

The Border Post · Wednesday 2 March 1859 · page 2

The fire broke out last Wednesday night in the Adelphi Hotel, and originated from the use of a caudle among some straw taken out of some porter cases, which were being unpacked by a man…

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Colonial Intelligence. Disastrous Fire at North Melbourne. Fifty Houses Burnt Down

The Border Post · Wednesday 2 March 1859 · page 2

One of the most extensive fires which has occurred in this city for some time, took place on Friday night last in North Melbourne, shortly after eleven o’clock. It originated in Davey’s…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Monday, May 30, 1959. [Before John Kelly, Esq., Police Magistrate, T. C. Morison, and John Phillips, Esqrs., J.P.’s] the Late Fire

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 2 June 1859 · page 3

The adjourned case against Joseph Simpson came on for hearing at half-past 12 o’clock. Mr. Cutten appeared for defendant, and applied fix an adjournment, as he had only received…

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Fire at Newcastle

The Border Post · Saturday 26 November 1859 · page 2

A most destructive fire occurred at Newcastle on the 13th inst. The following account of it is furnished by the correspondent of the Maitland Mercury :—…

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