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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1886

6 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Fire

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 January 1886 · page 2

A fire occured at the boiling-down premises of Mr. W. Charker, on Monday last, by which a good deal of damage was done. A number of men present worked hard to confine the…

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Destructive fire at Mittagong

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 February 1886 · page 2

IT is with extreme regret, says the Mail, that we publish the news of the total loss by Fire of the Rev. J. Dark's recently-built repidence, about a mile from Mittagong…

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Disastrous Fire in Sydney

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 September 1886 · page 2

ONE of the most disastrous fires which have occurred in the colony since the destruction of the Sydney Garden Palace broke out on Thursday evening at the intersection of…

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A Fire Brigade For Bowral. to the Editor of the Bowral Free Tress

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 September 1886 · page 2

SIR,— It is much to be regretted that the inhabitants of Bowral exhibit such utter indifference to the possibility of an outbreak of fire, and seem content rather to calmly await its approach than take…

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A Fire Brigade for Bowral to the Editor of the Bowral Free Press

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 2 October 1886 · page 2

SIR,—I consider "Fireman" deserves the thanks of the community for having drawn attention to the above important subject in his able letter which appeared in your last issue, wherein lie also makes…

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Destructive Fire at Moss Vale

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 2

ON Wednesday nightt at 11.40. p.m., a fire broke out in the detached kitchen of the residence of Mr. Lovell, near the railway bridge, Moss Vale, by which the house,…

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