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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1874

5 stories in Riverina's papers

Destructive Bush Fires

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 14 January 1874 · page 4

On Friday last, the Portland Guardian reports, about 11 a.m., a fire broke out on Mr. Francis Henty's Merino Downs estate, and we learn…

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Disastrous Fire in Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1874 · page 5

DURING the last few months (says the Daily Telegraph) large fires have been a rarity in the city, and with the exception of several small outbreaks in the suburbs, the services…

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The Fatal Fire at Clunes

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 27 May 1874 · page 6

The Clunes Guardian of yesterday contains the particulars of the shocking fire which took place there Wednesday, and we give the following abridgement of our contemporary's…

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Fire at Young

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 4

A FIRE was discovered on Wednesday night, or early on Thursday morning, in the back premises of Coleman's Empire Hotel. At the bottom of the yard is a row of slab and bark…

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Destructive Fire in Goulburn

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 5

SHORTLY after ten o'clock on Saturday morning last the townspeople were alarmed by the ringing of the fire-bell; and the news at once spread that the B[?]k of New South Wales…

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