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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1874

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

English Extracts. the Mersey on Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 10 June 1874 · page 3

From half-past 9 o'clock, on April 2, to 11 the Mersey, between New Brighton and Tranmere, presented one of the most remarkable sights…

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Great Fire in Goulburn.—bank of New South Wales Burnt Down

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 4 November 1874 · page 2

The most destructive and dangerous fire that ever perhaps occurred in Goulburn took place on Saturday morning last…

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Disastrous Fires at Windsor and Parramatta

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 3

ABOUT a quarter to 2 o'clock on 23rd inst., a most disastrous fire broke out at Windsor. The [?] being fanu[?] by a furious western [?]…

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