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Fires & bushfires, 1889

84 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 5

Original Correspondence. We do not identify ourselves with, nor are we to be held responsible for, opinions expressed by our correspondents. the Local Bush Fire. To the Editor

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 December 1889 · page 3

SIR,--In your issue of the 20th inst., you refer to a fire that swept through one of my paddocks and damaged Messrs. Anderson, Kennedy, and others. The…

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Great Fire at the Sydney Wharfs

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 December 1889 · page 2

Soon after 2.30 a.m. (says the second edition of the Sydney Morning Herald of the 25th inst.) a fire broke out at the Tasmanian Company's Wharf. The North City Fire Brigade…

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Disastrous Bush Fires

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 December 1889 · page 4

One of the worst fires we have yet had, and of which others may unfortunately be expected (says the Jerilder[?] Herald) occurred at Murray [?] on Saturday last week and was not really…

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Bush Fires

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 December 1889 · page 2

THE whole western and north-western horizon has been enshrouded in smoke by day, and aglow with flames by night, for the greater part of the past week, the cause being bush…

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