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Fires & bushfires, 1890

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Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 August 1890 · page 3

THE usual monthly meeting of the above was held on Tuesday evening. Captain M Stoppelbein being in the chair. Correspondence was read and received…

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Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 September 1890 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the above was held on Tuesday evening. Captain Stoppe[?]bein in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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Great Fire in Sydney. SYDNEY, Thursday, 10 a.m

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 October 1890 · page 2

About two this morning a fire broke out a Gibbs. Shallard and Co.'s printing establishment. Pitt-street, spreading with alarming rapidity, the flames burating out in several places simulataneously. The…

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Disastrous Fire in Sydney Sydney, Thursday, 9.30 a.m

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 4

About 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out at Messrs. Gibbs Shallard’s printing establishment in Pitt-street, spreading with alarming rapidity. The flames burst out…

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Great Fire in Sydney. Several Buildings Destroyed Sydney, Thursday morning

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 2

About 2 o'clock this morning & fire broke out in Gibbs and Shallard's printing [?]-street, spreading with alarming rapidity, flames bursting out in…

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Our Telegrams. Greatest Fire in Australia. SYDNEY, Thursday, 10 a.m

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 4

A fire broke out early this morning on the premises of Gibbs, Shallard, and Co., printers, Pitt-street, which spread with such awful rapidity that it soon enveloped the…

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Tremendous Fire in Sydney Loss Estimated at Over Half a Million. Destruction of Warehouses. Serious Injury to Clubs and a Bank. Several Firemen Hurt

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 3

BETWEEN 2 and 3 o'clock on Thursday mornin (the Echo says) a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard, and Co., printers and lithographers, between Pitt and…

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Losses by the Recent Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 7 October 1890 · page 3

We are informed with regard to the probable losses that might be incurred by the various firms, that so far as Messrs, Lark, Sons and Co. are concerned they estimate…

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Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 October 1890 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Advertiser

The usual monthly meeting of the Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade was held at the Brigade station en Tuesday evening, Captain M. Stoppelbein occupying the chair…

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A Terrible Explosion. Dreadful Scenes at a Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 October 1890 · page 4

DREADFUL scenes were witnessed at a fire in East Fifty-sixth-street. New York, on September 3. The lower parts of two buildings there are used by Mr. Hagan as a roofing…

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A Visit to a Fire Mountain

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 November 1890 · page 6

Now that the Canary Isles are becoming so favourite a resort, a brief notice may be interesting of a visit to the "Monte de Fuego," or Fire…

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The Palace Hotel Fires. Important Developments

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 6 November 1890 · page 4

AN important development occurred on Mon day (a Melbourne telegram says) in connection with the mysterious fires at the Palace Hotel, when a plumber employed by the company…

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A Railway Carriage on Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 6 November 1890 · page 2

ANOTHER of the long list of accidents resulting from the character of the fuel now being used on the railways was reported to us last night. A flower show in connection with…

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Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the above was held on Tuesday evening, Captain M. Stoppelbein in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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Fire at Livingstone Gully

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1890 · page 2

NEWS reached town yesterday that a fire broke out in the residence of Mrs. Dodd, a selector at Livingstone Gu[?]ly, on Wednesday afternoon, by which the whole of the…

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Disastrous fire in Hobart. 23 Houses Destroyed. Launceston

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1890 · page 2

THE most disastrous fire that has occurred in H[?]bart for many years broke out at 2 o'clock this morning in the fruit store of William [?]kin, at the Old Wharf. The flames…

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Great Fire in Sydney. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 2

Another extensive fire occurred ia Sydney to-night, the large kerosene bonded stores on Gibbs, Bright and Co.'s wharf filled with many thousands of cases of kerosene, being…

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Disastrous Fire in Sydney. a Bonded Store and Jetty Destroyed. Damage Over £50,000. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 2

A disastrous fire occurred to-night at Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co.'s wharves, Miller's Point. It originated in a large corrugated iron building adjoining the No. 2…

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Another Big Fire

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday morning. Dibb[?]' Wharf, at Miller's Point, was partially destroyed by fire last night. Thirty thousand cases of kerosene oil…

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