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Fires & bushfires, 1877

11 stories in Riverina's papers

Destructive Fire in Yass

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1877 · page 4

ON Sunday night, or rather early on Monday morning, a fire took place in Yass, when the two-storey stone building occupied by Mr. George Hill, boot and shoemaker, was…

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Dreadful Fire at the Brooklyn Theatre

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1877 · page 3

At the Brooklyn Theatre on December 6, during the performance of the Two Orphans, a fire broke out on the stage. The spectators numbered about 800,…

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Fires Caused by Sparks From Locomotives

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1877 · page 4

IN the Supreme Court, Sydney, on Monday, February 12, before his Honor the Chief Justice and a jury of four, the case Stinson v. The Commissioner for Railways was tried…

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Fire in Fitzmaurice Street

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 28 February 1877 · page 2

At about half-past eight last night the town was startled by the cry of fire, and at one time it was supposed that the new store of Messrs. Forsyth and Co. was the scene of…

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Disastrous Fire at Young. Tuesday, 11.50

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 14 March 1877 · page 2

A fire broke out last night, which it is supposed originated in Lancashire's buggy establishment. Brock and Broughton's offices, Dr. Temple's residence, and Dr…

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Disastrous Fire at Young

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1877 · page 2

MANY of our readers will doubtless recollect the most disastrous fire which occurred here in April, 1875, at which time many of the principal business establishments in town…

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Terrible Fire and Loss of Life

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 18 April 1877 · page 2

A disastrous fire has occurred at an hotel in St. Louis, by which 50 persons perished…

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A Coal Pit of Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1877 · page 1

A most disastrous fire occurred at Messrs. Roscoo and Lord's Stonehill Colliery, Worsley Road, Farnmouth, near Boston, on Jan. 23, by which…

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Another Destructive Fire in George-street

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1877 · page 4

ABOUT half-past 4 o'clock yesterday morning, a disastrous fire broke out on the grocery promises of Messrs. Hanks and Co., in George-street. The progress of the flames…

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Poetry. the Fire of Drift-wood. Longfellow

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 5 June 1877 · page 4

We sat within the form house old, Whose windows, looking o'er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold, An easy entrance night and day…

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Great Fire at New York

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 10 October 1877 · page 1

A great fire has occurred in the most populous part of New York. Fifty houses were destroyed by fire, and seven persons were killed…

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