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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1882

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Fire Brigade Re-union

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1882 · page 2

THE members of the Fire Brigade met together on Wednesday night at the Temperance Hall to hold their second annual dinner. The catering was done by Mr. E. Spring, and…

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The Fire Brigade

Temora Herald and Mining Journal · Friday 19 May 1882 · page 2

SOME things are more for ornament than use and Judging from past experience we are inclined to think that the Temora Fire Brigade comes under…

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Temora Fire Brigade

The Temora Star · Saturday 20 May 1882 · page 2

AN extraordinary meeting of the Temora Volunteer Fire Brigade was held on Monday evening last at Mr. Deitz Royal Exchange Hotel. Captain R. M'Intyre in the chair…

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Fire Brigade Ode

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 2

In the dead of the night, With their frightful spell, Come the sounds from the horn, Or clanging of bell…

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The Temora Fire Brigade at Melbourne

The Temora Star · Wednesday 31 May 1882 · page 2

As everybody knows Captain Mclntyre with a contingent of the Temora Fire Brigade composed of Messrs. Deitz (1st Licut), J. R. Rigg (2nd Licut), and Summers, Chishohn…

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Fire Brigade Meeting

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 3 June 1882 · page 4

A PUBLIC meeting called with the object of forming a fire brigade in Cootamundra was held in the Assembly Hall, according to announcement, on Thursday evening last…

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Wagga Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1882 · page 2

MESSRS. Gorman, Jacobs, and Snelson, the representatives of the Metropolitan Associated Fire Brigades Board, who have been in Wagga Wagga during the past three or…

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Sydney Supreme Court (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer and a jury of four.) BARNETT V. City Mutual Fire Insurance Society

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1882 · page 2

Mr. Pilcher, Mr. C. B. Stephen, and Mr. Cohen, instructed by Mr. Levy, for the plaintiff; Mr. Salomons, Q.C., Mr., Want, Mr. Merewether, and Mr. Heydon,…

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Fire Brigade

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 June 1882 · page 2

ABOUT sixty persons attended what was generally understood to be the adjourned meeting of the fire brigade on Saturday night last…

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Temora Fire Brigade

The Temora Star · Wednesday 7 June 1882 · page 2

AT the general meeting of the above held at Mr. Deitz'e Hotel on Monday last, Captain McIntyre in the chair, the minutes of the previous meeting having been read and…

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By a Transvaal Camp Fire. a Round of Stories in Three Parts. (All the Year Round.) PART I.

The Temora Star · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 4

THERE were five of us—all more or less strangers to each other, for although in our motley company three had been "mates" for a time, they were evidently…

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Temora Fire Brigade

The Temora Star · Wednesday 5 July 1882 · page 2

The regular monthly meeting of the Temora Fire Brigade was held at Mr. Deitz's Hotel on Monday evening last Captain M 'Intyre in the chair…

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By a Transvaal Camp Fire. a Bound of Stories in Three Parts. (All the Year Round.) PART I. the Africander's Story

The Temora Star · Wednesday 5 July 1882 · page 4

I am't going to mention names, you understand, for I make my living cut of these rascal Boers, and I ain't going to make enemies amongst 'em; but this…

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Constantinople and Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 July 1882 · page 4

A PROMINENT place belongs to Constantinople in the list of fire-doomed citites. In 1729 the conflagration, which raged three days, consumed 12,000 houses, and no…

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By a Transvaal Camp Fire. (All the Year Ronald.) a Round of Stories in Three Parts. Part I. the Artisan's Story

The Temora Star · Saturday 8 July 1882 · page 4

I had been doing a bit of work for one of them Free State Boers—for I'm a builder by trade and a brick maker—and he'd been a-having a new stable…

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Temora Fire Brigade

The Temora Star · Wednesday 12 July 1882 · page 2

A meeting of the members of the Temora Fire Brigade was held at Dcitz's Hotel on Monday evening last, 10th inst., Captain McIntyne in the chair…

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By a Transvaal Camp Fire. (All the Year Round.) a Round of Stories in Three Parts. Part Ii

The Temora Star · Wednesday 12 July 1882 · page 4

Both the artisan and the Africander now rose and bade good-night. The younger man still lolled by the fire. I had seen his eye kindle at parts of the…

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By a Transvaal Camp Fire. (All the Year Round.) a Round of Stories in Three Parts. Part Ii.—continued

The Temora Star · Saturday 15 July 1882 · page 4

A heavy time now began for poor Kadumbini. Every species of domestic cruelty was practised upon her to endeavour to extort her consent. Cut…

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Billy Kirwan.—how He Managed the Fire-eater

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 July 1882 · page 1

ONE day Billy Kirwan, a well-known Dublin bill-broker of great wealth and equal shrewdness, was offered, as he sat on his accustomed window-sill in the court-yard of the…

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By a Transvaal Camp Fire. (All the Year Round.) a Round of Stories in Three Parts. Part Ii.—continued. the Author's Story

The Temora Star · Wednesday 19 July 1882 · page 4

About three years ago I was in England, and I was asked by an old friend to pay him a visit at his country house. Although I had known him…

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