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Fires & bushfires, 1887

4 stories in South Coast's papers

A Fatal Fire

Moruya Examiner · Thursday 5 May 1887 · page 2

The Maryborough correspondent of the Melbourne Age reports:—A mysterious fire, attended with a death under horrible circumstances, occurred on Friday afternoon. Some…

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Our Telegrams. (From our Telegraphic Correspondent.) a Parisian Theatre on Fire. Melbourne

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 1 June 1887 · page 2

A CABLE message states that terrible scenes occurred at the barring of the Opera Comique in Paris. Numbers jumped from the topmost windows and…

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Disastrous Fire. Hotel Stables Consumed. Stores a Goods Seriously Damaged. Narrow Escape of Club Hotel

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 July 1887 · page 2

A [?] of considerable magnitude, but the result of which was at one time expected to be much more serious, occurred early on Sunday morning. The constable on…

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Fire in Carp-street

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1887 · page 2

WHAT might have resulted in a very serious fire occurred on Thursday night at Brownâs Commercial Hotel, Carp-street. The upstairs rooms of the…

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