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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1828

4 stories in Sydney's papers

Dreadful Fire at Calcutta. (Extract of [?] Letter, April 26.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1828 · page 3

On the 24th instant, a dreadful calamity [?] place: we had no less than five fires, and one I witnessed: it look place in a native quarter, called [?] Bazaar, where all the [?] are bamboo and [?]…

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Fire

The Australian · Friday 11 July 1828 · page 3

A few evenings back, the serial store, at Emu Plains, took tire, and was burned, it is reported, to the ground, together with fifteen hundred bushel of wheat, which it is said…

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Fire

The Australian · Wednesday 13 August 1828 · page 3

Between twelve and one o'clock on Friday night last, as two of the Sydney police constables were patrolling along George-street, their attention was attracted by a column of…

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Fire at Havana

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 17 September 1828 · page 3

The Diario de la Havana contains the following accounts of destructive fire, which broke ou[?] in the suburbs of that place on the 11th February:— There occurred, on the 11th February, one of these…

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