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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1872

4 stories in New England's papers

Great Fire in Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1872 · page 6

EARLY on Saturday morning the Prince of Wales Opera House, and several other buildings in its immediate neighbourhood, were totally destroyed by fire; and…

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Prevention of Bush Fires

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1872 · page 3

MR. W. L. MORTON writes to the Melbourne 'Argus':—To prevent bush fires is the object of the simple apparatus I invented four…

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The Fire at Beverley. Bundarra Police Court, March 4. (Before E. G. Clerk and S. H. Darby, Esqrs., J.P.'s.) ARSON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1872 · page 3

Edward Older, in custody, was charged with the above offence. Senior Constable Scott, sworn, deposed: I am stationed at Bundarra; on…

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Exciting Scene at a Fire

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1872 · page 7

On July 23 a fire, attended with a great loss of property, broke out at Great Warner-street, Clerkenwell. The lire began at the lower part of the building, and at…

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