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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1867

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Terrible Fire--three Families Suffocated

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1867 · page 4

A FIRE involving terrible loss of life occurred last night. Four adults and five children were suffocated in their respective rooms in the tenement house premises Nos…

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Destructive Fire in Lower George Street, Sydney

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1867 · page 3

YESTERDAY morning (6th instant), at about 20 minutes to 5 o'clock, an alarm of fire was given in George-street North, at its junction with Essex-street. The alarm…

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Fire Insurance.—the Goulburn Circular. To the Editor of the Empire

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 July 1867 · page 7

SIR,—Seeing in your paper of the 5th instant a paragraph headed as above, intimating that a circular had been issued by a number of influential gentlemen, inviting the co-operation of persons residing in…

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