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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires
8 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Alexander McClung, jun., pleaded guilty to a charge brought under the Careless Use of Fire Act, of having on Monday, the 11th instant, left his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the 16th instant the British ship Despigadera, lying at anchor at Meigg's Wharf, San Francisco, was found to be on fire. She had arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the arrival of the Tagus at Plymonth, details are to hand of the recent dangerous accident that befel the Royal Mail Company's steamship Nile,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIFIC conflagartion is now raging here—Albion Hotel, Schmidt's, Hopkins and Gates's Armstrong's, Oriental Bank, Benjamin's, Walker's, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Sunday, April 4, about 2 o'clock in the day, smoke was seen to issue from the premises at the back of Hopkins and Gate's store. An alarm of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'KITTY, my darling,' said I, 'there's no sort of sense in it. I would bear a good deal for your sake; but there is a point, you know, beyond which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Benicia, March 29.—At about 1 o'clock this morning a fire was discovered by the sentry at the Arsenal. An alarm was instantly given, and soon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Theatre Royal, at Leeds, has been totally destroyed: The Church of St. Mildred, at Lee, in Kent, has been reduced to a wreck; the…
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