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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1889

23 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 2

Fire on an Atlantic Steamer

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1889 · page 3

THE White Star Royal Mail steamship Britannic which sailed from New York on 4th September, with 89 saloon and 159 steerage…

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Destructive Fires

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 December 1889 · page 4

ON Christmas morning, shortly after the mail train bound north passed Mr. Thos. Lynch's farm, about a mile.south of Armidale, the grass along the line was…

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Destructive Fire in Sydney. Total Destruction of the Tasmanian and N.Z. Co.'s WHARVES

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 December 1889 · page 4

SOON after 2.30 on Christmas morning, a fire broke out at the Tasmanian Company's Wharf. The first intimation was the outburst of flames from a shed on the…

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