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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1831

6 stories in Sydney's papers

Launcelot Aubrey. [For the Sydney Gazette.] "The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the scorpion girt with fire," &c. BYRON

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 17 February 1831 · page 3

It is now nearly six years since Launcelot Aubrey took up his abode in our little village; his arrival was no less mysterious than his subsequent conduct, which was…

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Fires in Kent

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 10 March 1831 · page 4

We regret, exceedingly to learn that incendiarios still continue their horrible and insane practices in Kent. On Tuesday night (October 5), two fires took place in the…

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Smoke and Fire. (From the Atlas.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1831 · page 3

The display made by Messrs. Hunt and O'Gorman Mahon, in the House of Commons, on Tuesday evening, resembled the process of lighting a bundle of green sticks. First, the green…

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Destruction of the Greenwich Theatre by Fire—threatening Letter

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1831 · page 4

Between 12 and 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning, (January 11), the town of Greenwich and neighbourhood was thrown into alarm, in consequence of the theatre, which is situate in…

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To the King's Ministers. On the easy, the speedy, the quiet, and the Only Effectual Means of putting a stop to the Fires, which now terrify and disgrace the Country. Kenisington, 17th January, 1831

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 18 June 1831 · page 4

KING'S MINISTERS, Before I proceed to point out to you the means alluded to in the title of this paper, I shall endeavour to convince you of these…

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Melancholy Death of Lord and Lady Walsingham. Dreadful Fire This Morning

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1831 · page 3

This morning (April 27) a fire, dreadful rather in its consequences to humon life than for the ravages of the flames, broke out at the residence of Lord Walsingham, at No. 55, Upper…

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