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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1892

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Destructive Bush Fires

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 3

Bush fires are ragging all round the Wellington and Mudgee districts. Many miles of grass fencing have been swept by the fires…

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Destrctive Bush Fires. Great Loss of Property. (From Our Correspondent). Urangeline Creek. Wednesday Evening

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 2

A BUSH fire broke out yesterday on the farm of Mr. W. R. Ryan. It spread with great rapidity owing to the force of the wind which blew from the west. The whole of…

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Fatal Fire at Ballarat. Ballarat

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 4

At an early hour this morning a fire broke out in a two roomed cottage in a Magpie street, Ballarat East, occupied by a miner named [?] Norris, aged 19 years. The building…

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The Bush Fires. Albury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1892 · page 3

PARTICULARS from the scene of the bush fire at Munyabla, Doodle Cooma, and Yerong Creek confirm the telegrams received yesterday relative to the disastrous character of…

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Fire Brigade Competition

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1892 · page 2

THE Fire Brigade carnival held at Goulburn on New Years' Day was a most successful affair. Twenty-seven brigades turned out in the procession in the morning, and…

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TELEGRAMS. Bush Fires!

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1892 · page 3

[?] fires have been raging in the [?]y of Temora for the past week. Mr. [?] Dentscher's selection and bomestead [?] Barmedman road were burnt out on…

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The Bush Fires. Albury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 2

DAVID O'Connor was charged at the police court to-day with the careless use of fire. The evidence submitted showed that accused was directly the cause of a large fire on…

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Bush Fires in the Southern Districts

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 3

The bush fires around Wagga have now been got under, but logs are smouldering on the land recently covered by the flames. Several telegraph poles on the line between…

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The Bush Fires. Immense Damage to Property. 80,000 Acres Swept by the Fires

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 2

THE bash fires in the neighborhood of Yorong Creek and the Rock are to-day under control, and it is unlikely that much farther damage will be done. The fire which raged along…

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Fires at Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 2

A fire broke out in a thickly-built part of Broken Hill on Tuesday night. Two resident have the last few hundred gallons they had in their underground…

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Destructive Fire at Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 3

A FIRE broke out in a thickly built part of Broken Hill on Wednesday night. Two residents gave the last few hundred gallons they had in their underground tanks, and a…

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The late Fire Brigade Meeting [To the Editor.]

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 8

SIR,—The meeting called some time ago to establish a fire brigade having lapsed, there remain two accounts for advertising (16/-), same unpaid. On Mr. Purcell and myself…

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Bush Fires

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 3

Another bush fire broke oat on Thursday of Mr. Thomss Jobnston'a selection, about six miles from se[?]uin, and spresd over about 4,000 acres of Mr. Robert Landale's…

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The Bush Fires

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 3

Two bush fires broke out on Thursday, one at Boomanoomana, and another at Savornak. lower down the river from Albury. Both destroyed large arms of grass and quantities…

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The Bush Fires. Barringun

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 3

The weather of late has been exceedingly hot, and bush fires are raging. Large fires are burning on Murulgoona, Buudaleer, Tinenburra and other stations. The…

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A Fire Averted

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 3

A VERY narrow escape from a serious fire occurred (the Gundagai Times says) at St. John's Church on Sunday night. There is a kurosene lamp on either side of the organ,…

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Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the above was held on Tuesday evening last, Capt. Connor being in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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Prairie Fires

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1892 · page 4

PRAIRIE fires are common in many of the States of America, and the wise Drikotan has his farm or ranch protected by fire breaks. These are usually made by ploughing two…

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Union Fires

The Hummer · Saturday 30 January 1892 · page 2

DEAR "HUMMER,"—The bush fires are over: the thermometer is at 100deg.: they may start again. Shame on your Union men! I don't…

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Union Fires

The Hummer · Saturday 6 February 1892 · page 2

DEAR "HUMMER,"—The bush fires are over: the thermometer is at 100deg.: they may start again. Shame on your Union men! I don't…

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