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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1887

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Great Bush Fires in Victoria

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 January 1887 · page 2

TOCUMVAL, Sunday night.—In this part of the Riverina disastrous bush-fires make their appearance annually as regularly as Christmas. In 1884 a serious fire…

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The Fatal Fire in Paris. London, May 29

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 June 1887 · page 2

The Gaulods estimates that the total number of persons who lost their lives by the fire at the Opera Comique in Paris is 250. Twenty-five persons were…

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Great Fire at Quebec

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 July 1887 · page 4

A great fire broke out at Que[?]bee on the morning of July 7, ond raged with great violence. The citadel was destroyed. A…

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Alarm of Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 21 September 1887 · page 2

AN alarm of fire was raised on Saturday last at McNamara's Hotel, and a number of townspeople hastily mustered on the the scene, only to find a chimney had…

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Chapter Ix. The Ball.—Found at Last.—Fire!

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 December 1887 · page 4

To the other attractions of the "Digger's Delight," Con had recently added a ball-room. He was a gentleman of experience, and well knew the unmeasured pleasure that diggers…

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