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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1885

4 stories in South Coast's papers

Terrible Science at a Fire

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 4

A T[?]: scene was witnessed at the East-end of London on December 15, at the fire in which a child lost its life The outbreak occurred a few minutes…

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How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahroes

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1885 · page 2

IN the beginning Chareya made fire (That is, the Cahroes say so), Housed it safe with two holdames dire, And meant to have it stay so…

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Round the Bivouac Fire

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 14 May 1885 · page 2

Round the bivouac fire, at midnight, lay the weary warrior-band; Bloody were their spears with slaughter: gory was each hero's hand:…

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By the Fire

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1885 · page 3

BY L. T. MEADE, AUTHOR OF "SCAMP AND I," ETC. The first part of the strange story which I am about to tell happened some ten years…

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