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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1866

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Sydney. [Through Greville and Bird.] Escape and Re-capture of Dunn. Bushranging on the Increase. Another Great Fire in Sydney. Ministerial Crisis Continues. Mr. Cowper Refuses to Resign. Mr. Martin Sent For. Mr. Plunkett Retires From Public Life. Wednesday, 12.30

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1866 · page 2

THE bushranger Dunn escaped from Dubbo barracks on Sunday morning. He was recaptured on Monday night, and is now lodged in Bathurst jail…

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Destruction by Fire of the Anchor Flour Mills, Sydney

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1866 · page 3

Another large fire occurred on Tuesday night, and resulted in the total destruction of Mr Joseph Wearne's Anchor Steam Flour Mills, in Baker-street, at the bottom…

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Lost on the Snowy Mountains. Eight Days in the Snow Without Food or Fire

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 7 June 1866 · page 2

To the many instances on record of persons lost in the wild[?] of Australia, and rescued by a singular providence from a death too horrible to contemplate, it falls to our lot this week to add a case truly…

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