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Fires & bushfires, 1854

44 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 3

Bush Fires at Appin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 December 1854 · page 2

Our correspondent writes, on the 5th instant:— "It is with sorrow I wtite this to inform you, that we have been visited with the calamity of bush fires in and about the mountain road to Bulli and to this…

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Destructive Fires at Appin. [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Empire · Friday 8 December 1854 · page 5

Our town has been aroused from the dulness and torpid dejection, which has sat like night-mare upon it during this most severe drought, by all the excitement and animation which attend those who…

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Destructive Fires at Appin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 December 1854 · page 10

Our town has been aroused from the dulness and torpid dejection, which has sat like a nightmare upon it during this severe drought, by all the excitement and animation which attend those…

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The Fire at Memel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 December 1854 · page 1

The dreadful conflagration which has taken place here is at last subdued, and about £2,000,000 sterling has been destroyed. The shipping is all safe. All business is suspended,…

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