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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1884

3 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Bush and Other Fires

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 2

BOWRAL, during this week, and on various occasions recently, has been surrounded with clouds of smoke issuing from the sea of flame as it swept across the surface of the…

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Alarming Bush Fire at Newcastle

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1884 · page 3

VERY destructive bush fires took place on Wednesday afternoou, at Newcastle. For about four miles round Newcastle there was almost a circle of fire. Lambton, Adamstown, Charlestown, the Glebe,…

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Fire-proof Paint

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 November 1884 · page 2

A DISPLAY of the fire-resisting qualities of fire-proof paint, manufactured by the United Asbestos Company, limited, London, was given on Monday afternoon in…

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