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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1893

12 stories in South Coast's papers

Engine For Bush Fires

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1893 · page 4

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Be Prepared for Fire. (To the Editor)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1893 · page 2

SIR,-In view of the immense quantity of grass in the Bega district, the chances are there will be great losses caused by fire. I would therefore suggest that a committee…

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Bush Fires

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 2

The particularly careless manner in which fires are lighted aud left burning in the bush has been exemplified by instances recently reported to the…

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Bush Fires

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 2

THE particularly careless manner in which fires are lighted and left burring instances recently reported to the Department of Agriculture. That this…

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Busr Fires

Moruya Examiner · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 2

The particularly careless number in which fires are lighted and left burning in the such has been exe[?] by [?] recently reported to the Department of Agricultural…

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Bush Fires

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 18 February 1893 · page 8

The particularly cureless manner in which fires are lighted left burning has been exemplified by instances recently reported to the Department of Agriculture. That this…

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The Late Fire at Garlandtown

Moruya Examiner · Friday 11 August 1893 · page 2

On Tuesday last an inquiry was held before W. H Simpson, Coroner, and a jury of nine, touching the burning, of the store at Garland-town, the property of Mr. Thos Ball, when the…

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The Back Forest Fire. Coroner's Inquest

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 26 August 1893 · page 4

An inquest into the cause of the fire which destroyed Mr. J. R. Wilson's store was held at Back Forest on Tuesday last, before Mr. Z. G. Bice…

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A Theatre on Fire

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 23 September 1893 · page 1

The Opera House in Illinois (America) caught fire and a panic took place amongst the audience, resulting in the death of ten persons…

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Fire at Colombo

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1893 · page 2

ON Thursday, the Coroner, Mr Beveridge, held an inquest at Pitfield’s Colombo Hotel as to the origin of the fire which occurred there on the 24th instant, Jury;…

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A Fire Caused by the Sun’s Rays

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1893 · page 4

A SINGULAR but convincing explanation of what, was supposed to have been an incendiary fire at the [?] Industrial Home for Girls, Hampstead, has…

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The Fire at Kangaroo Valley

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 21 December 1893 · page 2

The inquest on the fire by which Mr. William Randall’s store at Kangaroo Valley was totally destroyed on Thursday morning last, was postponed from Friday…

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