The Origin of the Fire
How the fire originated is a mystery be far. Mr. C. Baylis, jun., who did yeomanry serat the fire, fixes the time of its start at an early…
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Fires & bushfires, 1890
17 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
Lamentable Catastrophe. Disastrous Fire in Bowral. Bong Bong Street in Flames. Four Business Premises Burnt to the Ground
BOWRAL was alarmed by the cry of fire between 3 and 4 o'clock on Friday morning; and in less than an hour a couple of hundred persons were assembled at the glaring scene. "The…
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MESSRS. Pember, Tonks, Prior, and J. G. Morris, whose business places were levelled to the ground by the fire, which was fully reported last week, have succeeded in locating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The [?]Te Fire at Bowral. Coroner's inquiry
THE district c[?]roner, Mr. A. D. Badgery, J.P., held an inquiry at the Grand Hotel on Thursday morning commencing at 11 o'clock, touching the origin of the…
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A PUBLIC meeting presided over by the Mayor, Mr. J. J. Cpmpbell, was held at the School of Arts, Bowral, on Tuesday evening last, with the object of expressing sympathy with…
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A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Bowral School of Arts on Wednesday last with the object of giving all expression of practical sympathy to sufferers by the recent…
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A fire broke out the other evening in the office of the TRIBUTE newspaper in Minneapolis. The building consisted of eight storeys, and the fire, started in the third storey, and spread rapidly…
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LONDON, April, 11.—A fire has occurred at Baron de Rothschild's residence at Wednesdon. A Gainsborough painting, worth £10,000 was destroyed…
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A MEETING was held in the committee room of the School of Acts on Tuesday evening to wind up affairs in connection with the recent fire in Bowral. There was only a…
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IT was on the Mulligan (Queensland), in the early days, when the Myall blacks were pretty numerous and uncommonly blood-thirsty, that my friend the drover, with…
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AN explosion of gasoline took place in the railway store, adjoining the Picton station, last Friday evening. The store was entirely destroyed, together with all its contents…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Recent Terrible Fire at a Lunatic Asylum. Harrowing Scenes
The destruction by fire on Tuesday, May 6, of the Asylum of St. Jean de Dieu, at Longue Poiate, near Montreal, is the most dreadful disaster in the history of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appalling Fire in Sydney. Immense Destruction of Warehouses. Damages Over One Million Sterling
BETWEEN 2 and 8 o'clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard, and Co., printers and lithographers, between Pitt and…
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AT the meeting of the Bowral Municipal Council on Thursday evening. Alderman Rice stated, in regard to the late fire in Bowral, that the formation of a…
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AT a quarter-past 10 on Saturday evening last the above stirring words shrieked as they were by our respected resident, Mrs. C. Waters, compelled on to hurry our steps…
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A FIRE occurred at the place of Mr. Joseph Beddner, farmer, of King's Creek, Larry's Flat, at about dusk on Saturday evening. His daughter, aged nine years, was in the…
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THE inhabitants of Moss Vale were startled by the alarm of fire on Boxing evening, when it was discovered that the premises of Messrs. Moore and Co., general…
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