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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1861

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Great Fire at Ballarat. the Ballarat Star of January 11th says:—

The Golden Age · Saturday 26 January 1861 · page 3

Altogether, very nearly 60 houses have been levelled with the ground, many of which were large stores, extensively fitted up, and crammed with goods. At the time we write,…

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Gems from Poets. Sitting by the Fire. [An Old Man's Reverie.]

The Golden Age · Thursday 1 August 1861 · page 4

GLEESOME children were we not? Sitting by the fire, Ruddy in its glow, Sixty summers back—…

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General Intelligence. Fire at Coolringdon. Destruction of the Woolshed

The Golden Age · Thursday 14 November 1861 · page 2

On Wednesday evening last a fire of a very serious nature broke out between seven and eight o'clock in the woolshed, at Coolrington, near Cooma, and in a few minutes the whole…

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