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Fires & bushfires, 1901

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Destructive Bush Fires

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 20 December 1901 · page 2

THE Sydney fire -brigades had up to midnight on Tuesday 23 calls Within 24 hours. Miles of orchards were swept by the flames in all directions. A public school and several buildings were…

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Fire on a Train

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 December 1901 · page 5

A fire occurred on a goods train at Broken Hill this morning, two trucks of produce being burnt…

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Christmas Fare Fire Centuries Ago

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 December 1901 · page 3

The standard dishes at Christmas were, in old days, the boar's head and peacock, each of which was served up with every circumstance of pompous ceremony,…

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TELEGRAMS. The Weather. Disastrous Bush Fires. Sydney, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 31 December 1901 · page 2

BUSH fires continue on the mountains, News from all parts of the country report great destruction from bush fires. The Wagga and Gundagai districts have…

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