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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1878

10 stories in Riverina's papers

Narrow Escape of Fire at the Criterion Hotel

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 4

On Thursday night after some of the travellers in the above hotel had retired to rest, the waiter perceived a strong smell of burning in the upstair corridor, and on making a diligent…

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Serious Fire and Loss of Property at Best Springs

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1878 · page 2

ON Wednesday last a very serious conflagration occurred on the farm of Mr. Hugh Arnold, the well-known carrier and grazier, of this district. Mr. Arnold occupied what may…

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Disastrous Bush Fires Near Warrnambool

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1878 · page 1

A CORRESPONDENT, writing to the Warnambool Standard, gives the following description of the disastrous fires which have been ranging in the…

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Disastrous Fire at Gundagai. Spring Flat Flour Mill Burnt to the Ground

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 2

OUR readers will learn with regret that Mr G. F. Hayes's mill at Spring Flat, about two miles from this town was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. It appears that…

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Fire at Gundagai. Spring Flat Flour Mill Burnt to the Ground

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 10 April 1878 · page 1

OUR readers (says the Gundagai Times) will learn with regret that Mr. G. F. Hayes' mill at Spring Plat, about two miles from this town was…

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Fire in Gurwood-street

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 2

Between the hours of 8 and 9 last evening the inhabitants of Gurwood-street, and those whose lot it was to be in the street were startled by the cry of fire, and on arriving at…

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Inquest on the Late Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 19 June 1878 · page 2

AN inquest was held at the Pastoral Hotel yesterday, when the following evidence was adduced:—Richard Henwood Blarney deposed: I am…

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Fire in Newtown

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 4 September 1878 · page 3

IT is with extreme regret we have to chronicle a catastrophe of fire at a time of gaiety and festivity, more especially as it falls very heavily on one who cannot afford to meet…

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News of the Week. Inquest on a Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 September 1878 · page 2

On Friday forenoon Mr Weekes, District Coroner, commenced an inquest at Slater's hotel touching the cause of the burning of Mr John Sells' hay-stacks at Jones' Creek on the…

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Destruction by Fire of the Bathurst Hospital. (Western Independent.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1878 · page 4

THE greatest consternation prevailed in the city of Bathurst on Wednesday by the breaking out of a fire in the Bathurst District Hospital. The building was so well…

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