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Fires & bushfires, 1883

2 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Miscellaneous. Joking While Under Fire

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1883 · page 3

IN the midst of danger, soldiers are sometimes prone to jest and laugh, and even practical jokes on each other, as the following anecdotes will show:—During the trench work before Sebastopol there…

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Fire in a Lunatic Asylum

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 10 November 1883 · page 3

A FIRE broke out early on August 15 at the mansion at Southall Park, a private lunatic asylum, which has been carried on for some years by Dr. Boyd. The inhabitants…

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