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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1868

6 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Barque Salween on Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 January 1868 · page 2

THE Salween, barque, 601 tons, in command of Captain Stout, and belonging to Messrs Thompson and Aikenden, of Glasgow, arrived at this port yesterday, with her cargo on fire. She ran into Spring…

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The Ship Earl Dalhousie on Fire at Sea

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 3

THE British ship Earl Dalhousie, in command of Captain Campbell, arrived yesterday from London, and during the voyage had a fire amongst her cargo, which…

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Destructive Fire at Aspinwall

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 June 1868 · page 2

On the night of the 26th March a fire was discovered in the car-house of the Railroad Company at Aspinwall, which destroyed a large amount of property, including forty-seven freight cars on the…

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Destructive Fire in Suffolk

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 12 September 1868 · page 4

On Sunday morning a fire broke out in a row-of-thatched cottages in Bury-street, Stowmarket, Suffolk, by which no fewer than eighteen cottages were destroyed and…

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Fire in Callao

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 17 October 1868 · page 4

On the 14th instant the most extensive fire ever known in Callao broke out about nine o'clock in the evening, originating it is believed in the Hotel Confianza, situated in…

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Another Great Fire in Devonstreet, Taranaki

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 December 1868 · page 1

On Tuesday morning, the 24th instant, about 1.30 a.m., the inhabitants of this town were again aroused from their slumbers by the ominous toll of the fire-bell…

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