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Fires & bushfires, 1900

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Bush Fires in Victoria. Damage at Beechworth Estimated at £50,000. Belief Fund Started. Beechworth

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 2

A LARGE and representative meeting was held at the Beechworth Town-hall this evening to organise measures for the relief of the sufferers by the recent bush fires…

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Fatal Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 2

White and Co's big steres, Melbourne, were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. An employee named George Dougles jumped from the third-storey window…

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Fires in Gippsland. Bairnsdale

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 2

The resident of Wuk-Wuk had a trying, time during the recent bush fires. In several instances the settlers' houses caught fire, and were only saved after great…

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Late Fires. Advices From the Metropolis. Sydney, Monday, 6 p m.,. the Revenue

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 2

THE revenue returns for the past quarter show a comparative increase of £68,888…

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Fire in Town. a House Destroyed

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 2

A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Mr. G. Sheather's residence, Flower Hill, on Monday evening, when his dwelling house was razed to the ground…

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New Zealand. Destructive Bush Fires. Hobart

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

Bush fires are raging in all directions, and in the Brighton and New Norfolk districts and a large number of settlers were burnt out, while two state schools…

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Tasmanian Fires

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 2

The bush free are raging without abatement in Tasmania. Nine families were bernt out in Brighton. The Distries State School was destroyed at Berwisk…

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Junes Fire Brigade

The Junee Democrat · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the above was held in the reel house on Wednesday night when the following firemen were present :-- Captain…

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Fire in Gundagai

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 3

At about half-past one o'clock p.m. yesterday a fire broke out in a buggy and hay shed at the roar of Mr. W. T. Griffin's residence in Punch-street…

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Disastrous Fire at Henty

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

A fire took place at the residence of Mr. Harry Voss, Ivor-street, Henty, on Thursday evening (writes our correspondent), resulting in the total destruction of the…

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The Pitt-street Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 7

At the inquest on the recent fire at Troup's furniture warehouse, Pitt-street, a verdict of incendiarism was returned against some person unknown…

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Fire in a Bedroom. MRS. H. T. Davidson Seriously Burned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

EARLY yesterday morning a fire occured in a bedroom at the residence of Mr. H. T. Davidson, of T. Edmondson and Co, in consequence of which Mrs. Davidson…

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Fire at Henty. (From Our Correspondent.) [By Telegrap.] Henty

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

A HOUSE occupied by Mr. H. Voss and owned by Mr. M'Donald, of Germanton, was destroyed by fire last night. Owing to the inflammable construction of…

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A Train on Fire Heroic Conduce of a Passenger. a Perilous Experience. Adelaide

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 6

When the Broken Hill express which left the Barrier on Wednesday night reached a point about two miles from Manna Hill, at about 12.30 a.m., a fire…

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The Latest. N.s.w. Lancers Under Fire. German Steamer Detained. Boers Blocked at Sunnyside. London, Jan. 5

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

News from South Africa states that the New South Wales Lances were sent to prevent the looting of a wrecked train. The Laneers were exposed to a heavy shell and…

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A Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 2

The Clinton railway Station, one of the but equipped in New Zealand, has been destroyed by fire…

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Henty. (From Our Correspondent.) Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 2

A SERIOUS fire broke out about 8 p.m. on Thursday night, in a dwelling occupied by Mr. H. Voss and family and owing to the inflammable construction, of the building…

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The War Through Reuter's Agency Fighting Near Ladysmtth. the Enemy Repulsed. General Buller's Reconnaissance. Engagement Near Colesberg. Heavy Boer Losses. the Seige of Mafeking. British Hotly Received. Gallantly Face a Withering Fire. London, Jan. 4 (Afternoon)

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 3

The Composite Household Cavalry battalion has been entrained at Cape Town to reinforce Lord Methuen at Modder River…

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Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 2

At Whangarei,New Zealand, yesterday morning the Whangarei hotel and eighteen shops were destroyed by fire, the loss' being estimated at £12,000…

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Fire in a Bedroom

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 2

Early on Friday morning a fire occurred in a bedroom at the residence of Mr H. T. Davidson, in consequence of which Mrs Davidson sustained injuries of a…

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