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Fires & bushfires, 1891

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The Booligal Fire. Further Details. Booligal

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 March 1891 · page 1

The events of Wednesday night last at Booligal were sufficiently startling to render it memorable. Probably for many years to come it will be referred to a "the night of…

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A Yucatan Bull-Fight. Poor Beasts Cruelly Tortured with Fire and Spear-Thrusts

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 2

Bull-fights have been so many times described that I will spare the reader the details of this battle, writes a Mexican correspondent. Suffice it to say it was as cowardly…

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The Deniliquin Fire Brigades Board

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 2

The following information respecting the working of the Deniliquin Fire Brigades Board was communicated by the Secretary of that body to the Municipal Council and read at the meeting on…

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Disastrous Fire in the United States. Total Loss £400,000

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 18

A disastrous fire has occurred at Syracuse, an important city in the city of the state of New York. Before the flames could be extinguished a cigar factory and 35 other…

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Fire at the Chinese Camp

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 3

About eleven o'clock last night the violent ringing of the fire bell and a great glare in the north eastern sky announced the fact that a fire was in progress in that portion of the…

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Fire at the Chinese Camp

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 2

ABOUT half-past ten on Monday night an alarm of fire was raised by some men at the Bushman's Home, and in a few minutes a column of smoke and flame was…

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The Fire at the Chinese Camp. the Inquest

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 2

An inquiry into the cause of the fire which destroyed some buildings at the Chinese Camp on Monday night, was held yesterday at the Carriers' Arms Hotel…

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The Fire Brigade's and Oddfellows' Fancy Fair

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 March 1891 · page 2

TAKING advantage of the presence of [?]nmerous visitors to Corowa during race week, the committees of the Fire Brigade and Oddfellows' Building Fund held a joint…

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The Late Fire at Wodonga. the Adjourned Inquest

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 March 1891 · page 25

At the court-house, Wodonga, on Saturday last, before the district coroner, Mr. J. Rowan, J.P., the adjourned inquest touching the cause of the late fire at the North-Extern and…

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General European Telegrams. Disastrous Fire in New York. London, March 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 March 1891 · page 18

Telegrams received from New York state that a disastrous fire has broken out in some clothing warehouses in Bleecker and Green streets. The loss already caused by the fire is estimated…

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The Fire Brigades Act

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 4

The Fire Brigade Board in Deniliquin (says the Echo) has been passing through evil times, and its experience is only another proof of the unwisdom of Parliament in creating two separate…

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The Late Fire at the Chinese Camp

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 2

ON Wednesday Mr. Pearce, the Coroner, held an inquiry into the cause of the fire at the Chinese Camp on Monday night, when the following evidence was taken:—…

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A Yucatan Bull-Fight. Poor Beasts Cruelly Tortured with Fire and Spear-Thrusts

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 April 1891 · page 2

Bull-fights have been so many times described that I will spare the reader the details of this battle, writes a Mexican correspondent. Suffice it to say it was as cowardly…

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A Yucatan Bull-Fight. Poor Beasts cruelly Tortured with Fire and Spear-Thrusts

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 8 April 1891 · page 2

Ball-fights have been so many times described that I will spare the reader the details of thsi battle, writes a Mexican correspondent. Suffice it to say it was an cowardly…

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Original Correspondence. The Booligal Fire. (To the Editor of the Riverine Grazier.)

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 April 1891 · page 2

Sir,—I wish to publicly thank all those I good people who so kindly assisted me after the late fire at Booligal, and I shall ever feel grateful to there who subscribed towards the…

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Latest by Telegraph the Barooga Grass-fire Case. Deniliquin

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 April 1891 · page 2

In the Deniliquin Supreme Court to-day before the Chief Justice, the civil action, M'Farland Bros. v. Joseph Howard, claiming £1500 damages for setting fire to…

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Disastrous Fire in Chicago. Eight Hundred Firemen Present. London, April 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1891 · page 18

A disastrous fire has occurred in Chicago, by which Smyth’s furniture warehouse and a Dime museum adjo[?]ning were burnt. The damage is estimated at two million dollars…

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Fire at Madame Melba’s House. Narrow Escape of the Prima Donna. London, April 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1891 · page 18

A serious fire occurred last night at the residence of Madame Melba, the Australian prima donna, in Paris. The flames gained ground so rapidly that…

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Inquest on a Fire

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 2

Mr. Pearce held an inquest at Kooba woolshed on Friday last on a fire which occurred on the evening of the 17th of April, when tho shearers but was burnt…

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Destructive Fire in Spain. London, May 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 May 1891 · page 18

The dockyard at Bilbao, an important seaport in the north of Spain, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £80,000…

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