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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1876

6 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

A Terrible Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 January 1876 · page 4

FROM the correspondent at Black Creek, and other sources, the Murrurundi Times learns the following particulars of a melancholy…

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Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 February 1876 · page 2

A fire broke out in Mr John Young's bakery, in Monaro street, on Thursday morning, resulting in the almost total destruction of the building, and from…

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Fire at Jerrabiggery

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 February 1876 · page 2

A fire unaccountably broke out a few days ago at Jerrabiggery, near Satton, which destroyed a large quantity of log fencing and a stack of straw…

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Destruction of a Training Ship by Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 March 1876 · page 3

The Goliath, an old line of battle ship of eighty-one guns, was destroyed by fire on December 22. The vessel was stationed off Grays, opposite…

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Destructive Fire at Uriarra

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 29 March 1876 · page 2

On the night of the 16th or morning of the 17th instant a fire occurred at Uriarra, the station of Mr John McDonald, whereby a blacksmith's…

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A New Chemical Fire-Engine

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 29 March 1876 · page 4

An exhibition of a new chemical fire-engine, lately imported from America by Messrs T. J. Brown and Co., of Bathurst-street, took place…

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