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Fires & bushfires, 1830

5 stories in Sydney's papers

Eating Fire. the Fire-king and This Challenger

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 25 March 1830 · page 3

AN advertisement lately appear in the London papers, in which a Mr. J Smith, after insinuating that M.Chabert, the fire-king, practised some juggle when he appeared to ender into an oven heated to…

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Destruction of the English Operahouse by Fire

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 10 July 1830 · page 3

"Shortly before two o'clock on Tuesday morning, a smoke was observed to issue from the pit-entrance to the English Opera-House, in Exter-court. An alarm…

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Total Destruction of the Argyle Rooms by Fire

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 21 August 1830 · page 4

Last night, about half-past ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the kitchen of the Argyll-rooms, which is situated under the eastern wing, or Grand Concert-room. Three…

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The English Opera-house Destroyed, and Fifteen Houses by Fire

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 21 August 1830 · page 4

Between one and two o'clock this morning, one of the most alarming fires which we have witnessed for some years in the metropolis, broke out in the English…

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Calamitous Fire—four Females and a Youth Burnt to Death

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 25 August 1830 · page 4

A fire, attended with results more extensively fatal to human life, than the one we are about to narrate, has not occurred in the Metropolis for many years…

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