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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1899

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Fire

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 2

AT 1/4 to 1 o'clock on Monday morning at fire broke out on the premises of Mr. G. E. Marston, storekeeper, Bowral. The blind covering the large window in front…

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Disastrous Fire. LONDON, April 9

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 April 1899 · page 5

A disastrous fire, attended by the loss of several lives, occurred at Now York. The outbreak happened in the mansion of Mr. Wallace Andrews, the…

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New York Fires. Millionaire's Life Was Sought

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 5

London, Tuesday.—The police an tharities is New York have knowledge which materially strengthens the belief that the fire which resulted in the…

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Big London Fire

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 2

London-, Monday Afternoon.—A big fire occurred in the city this morning the upper portione of a building 11 storeys high, situate at Hyde Park…

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Destructive Fire at Klondyke

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 27 May 1899 · page 1

THE whole of Dawson City, the centre of the Klondyke goldfields, has been destroyed by fire, caused through a lamp upsetting. Damage, 4,000,00 dollars…

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Bowral Fire Board

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 2

THE Board met on Wednesday last, 28th June. Alderman Stephens (Mayor) presided. Minutes of previous meeting were read and adopted…

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Bowral Fire Brigade

The Mittagong Express · Tuesday 4 July 1899 · page 2

Aid Stephen (Mayor) presided at the meeting of the Bowral Fire Brigade Board which look place on Wednesday last…

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A Fire at Moss Tale

The Mittagong Express · Friday 7 July 1899 · page 2

A Ere broke out at Roberts’, bakery, Moss Vale, at about 8 o’clock on Wednesday morning. The fire was discovered, by a man going [?] work, , who…

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Fire at Moss Vale. Splendid Work by the Fire Brigade

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 5

Shortly after half-past six on Wednesday morning a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr J. Roberts', Railway Bakery, opposite the post…

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Fire at Tomora

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 July 1899 · page 5

A very destructive fire broke out on Friday night at the Golden Gate Hotel, owned by Mr. Francis Burdett Smith, situated at the corner of…

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Moss Vale Fire

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 2

An inquest on the recent fire was held at the courthouse Moss Vale, last Wednesday, before Mr. A. D. Badgery the district coroner…

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Bowral Fire Board

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 2

A MEETING of the above Board was held yesterday (Friday) morning, at which Alderman A. Stephens (Mayor) presided. Minutes of previous meeting were read and…

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The Bowral Fire Board and Mr. R. A. Bissaker. To the Editor

The Mittagong Express · Friday 21 July 1899 · page 2

Sir,—I notice in your last issue a report of a meeting of the Bowral Fire Board, in which I am again unfavorably advertised. I am a ware that these reports are…

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Letters to the Editor. The Bowral Fire Board v. R. A. Bissaker

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 2

SIR,—I notice in last Saturday's isssue a report of a meeting of the Bowral Fire Board, in which I am. again unfavorably advertised. I am aware that these reports are communicated to the press by the…

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The Fire Brigade Board and Mr. Bissaker. (To the Editor.)

The Mittagong Express · Friday 28 July 1899 · page 3

SIR,—In reply to Mr. Bissaker’s letter appearing in your issue of last Friday, we must decline to enter into any controversy with him at present, as his case is still under…

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The "Holy" Fire

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 July 1899 · page 4

WHAT a different world would this earth of ours be were there no such thing as fire! Civilization, in its ordinnry sense, could not exist, for without that subtil element the human race could be no little better than animals; in fact mankind…

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Letters to the Editor. The Fire Brigade Board and Mr. Bissaker

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 July 1899 · page 2

SIR,—In reply to Mr. Bissaker's letter appearing is your issue of last Saturday, we must decline to enter into any contraversy with him at present, as his case is still under consideration. There being…

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Bowral Fire Board

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 August 1899 · page 4

A MEETING of the Fire Board was held on Saturday morning 29th July, 1899. Alderman A.Stephens (Mayor) presided. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and…

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Letters to the Editor. The Fire Brigade Board and Mr. Bissaker

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 August 1899 · page 4

SIR,—Having taken some little interest in the controversy on the above subject, I now crave the indulgence of a little of your valuable space in order to make a few remarks in defence of Mr. Biasaker. In…

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Bowral Fire Board. Mr. Bissaker Eligible for Nomination

The Mittagong Express · Friday 4 August 1899 · page 2

The Mayor (Ald. Stephens) presided at a meeting of the Bowral Fire Brigade Board held on Saturday morning last. A letter was read from the Goalburn Fire…

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