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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1872

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Chicago After the Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 4 January 1872 · page 4

"With tears for the dead and dying, with sorrow and tender care for the maimed and sick, with faith in God and stout hearts in our breasts, we now begin…

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Destructive and Fatal Fire in Sydney. Total Destruction of the Prince of Wales Opera House. Empire Office. Saturday morning, 5.30

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 11 January 1872 · page 2

LAST night, a fire which has proved most destructive, broke out in the Prince of Wales Theatre, situate in Castlereagh-street in this city. How the fire…

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Great Fire in Sydney. Destruction of Barker and Co's Tweed Factory

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 23 May 1872 · page 3

ONE of the most destructive fires that ever took place in Sydney, occurred on Saturday morning, in Sussex-street, near Bathurst-street. The property destroyed is Barker's…

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