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Fires & bushfires, 1874

5 stories in New England's papers

The Story-teller. a Rtde for Life. (From, a series of Tales told round a New Zealand Camp Fire, appearing in Once a Week.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1874 · page 2

FOR a moment I thought the man meant mischief, but something in Alice's face warned him not to tempt his fate, and he cowered like a cur before the fair, delicate…

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Great Fire at Chicago

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 September 1874 · page 6

ON the 14th July a fire commenced among some rookeries most of which were occupied as houses of ill fame. The alarm was given, at half-past 3 p.m., and the…

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The Yeoman. a Farmers' Fire Assurance Association

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 September 1874 · page 8

THE 'Australasian' says:—The farmers of St. Arnaud recently met to consider the expediency of forming an association of themselves, upon the…

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A Whole Family Destroyed by Fire

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 25 September 1874 · page 7

ON Monday morning, June 29, at twenty minutes before 3, there occurred the most terrible and heartrending calamity that has ever happened in this part of the…

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The Late Disastrous Fire at Windsor

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 2

OUR correspondent sends us the following account of the late disastrous fire at Windsor, as observed by him, with some particulars that have not yet been published:--…

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