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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1888

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Yet Another Fire. a Township Almost Destroyed. Melbourne

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 November 1888 · page 5

NEARLY the whole of the business portion of the mining township of Walhalla was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. Thirty buildings, including the Bank of Australasia and the Victoria Mechanics'…

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Our Telegraphic Mews. [Through Greville's Company.] New South Wales. Sydney, Monday Morning. Great Fire

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 November 1888 · page 4

THE EVENING NEWS office was destroyed by fire on Saturday night; the damage is estimated at sixty thousand pounds. The paper will be published to-day at the…

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Destruction of the "Evening News" Office by Fire. Loss Estimated at £60,000. Sydney, Monday, 10 A.m

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 November 1888 · page 5

THE Evening News office was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The damage is estimated at £60,000. The paper will be published to-day at the Herald office…

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Great Fire

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 December 1888 · page 4

There was a large fire at Plattsburg on Sunday morning. W. Jenkyn's drapery store and fire adjacent houses were burned down…

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Another Large Fire

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 December 1888 · page 5

A large fire took place at Plattsburg on Sunday morning, when W. Jenkyn's drapery establishment and five adjacent houses were burnt down…

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Great Fire at Walhalla, Victoria. Damage Estimated at £50,000

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 December 1888 · page 3

THE Walhalla correspondent of the Age gives the following particulars of the great fire at that place:--"A fire of a most serious kind, and which has done an immense amount of damage…

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A Ladies' Fire Brigade

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 December 1888 · page 3

THE Royal Holloway College is provided with all appliances for its protection against fire, and in order that these may be turned to the best account Miss Bishop, the lady principal, has…

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Great Fire

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 December 1888 · page 4

A disastrous fire has occurred at Doulton's Lambeth potteries…

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Fatal Fire in Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 December 1888 · page 4

A DISASTROUS fire occurred early en Tuesday morning, when the Wentworth House Family Hotel, situate at No. 13, Churchhill, was destroyed in less than two hours,…

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