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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1876

12 stories in Riverina's papers

Fire at [?] Freezing Works, [?]

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 January 1876 · page 6

THERE will be few, if any, persons in the community who will not receive with feelings of regret the announcement of a destructive fire at Messrs. Mort and…

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A City Destroyed by Fire. San Francisco, October 26

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 January 1876 · page 5

Great fire in Virginia City, Nev. Everything north of Taylor-street is burned. The branch Bank of California, the Virginia and Truckee railroad buildings, Consolidated…

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Fire at Lake Albert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 2 February 1876 · page 2

An inquest was held by the District Coroner on Monday for the purpose of ascertaining the cause of a fire, by which the Public School at Lake Albert was destroyed…

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Local Intelligence. the Fire at Lake Albert School. Inquest

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 2 February 1876 · page 2

AN inquest was held before the District Coroner, Mr. F. A. Tompson, at Lake Albert, on Monday last, to ascertain the cause of the fire which destroyed the Public School…

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Great Fire at Ludgate Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 March 1876 · page 5

A great fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Egleton, bookbinder, in Broadway, Ludgate Hill, and by four o’clock the whole, building of three stories was destroyed. The…

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Extensive Fires. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 2

Two large fires took place on yesterday morning in Flinders-street, and another about 1 p.m., in Elizabeth-street, by which a large amount of property has been destroyed. The…

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Fire Policies. (From the New Zealand Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 June 1876 · page 5

IT is highly desirable that the parties to the contract of a fire insurance policy should clearly understand their respective positions under that policy. The…

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Extinguishing Fires at Sea

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 4

WE were shown yesterday by Mr. D. Bergin, a very pretty model of 1,000 ton ship, constructed for the purpose of showing an invention by that gentleman…

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A Fearfully Destructive Fire at St, John’s

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 5

Sr. John’s, Quebec, June 18:—This place was today visited by a most destructive fire The entire business portion of the town, embracing a stretch of territory six…

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Prompt Detection of Fires

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1876 · page 1

The Janesville (Wis.) Gazette, of April 11, thus announces an Automatic Fire Detector, claimed to have been invented in that city. For…

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A Walk Through Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1876 · page 1

MR. OESTERG, an inhabitant of Stockholm, is the inventor of a dress and apparatus by which a man is enabled to enter and walk through tho fiercest flames without difficulty…

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[?]Us Fire and Explosion at Inglewood

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 5

[?]AT fire and explosion occurred to-day. At a quarter to 4 o'clock a telegram to the Argus) [?] was discovered in O'Donovan's…

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