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Fires & bushfires, 1880

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The Fire at Wagga Wagga. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wagga Wagga

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 October 1880 · page 3

The following is the amount of damage found to be done by the recent fire here:-- Commercial Hotel, roof slightly damaged; Criterion Hotel and kitchen, insured in the Liverpool, London and…

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The Wagga Wagga Fire. Insurance Co.'s Fire Brigade, Central Engine Station, Bathuurst-street, Sydney. October 20,1830. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 3

SIR.—In your issue of Monday last there appears a telegram from "your own correspondent" at Wagga Wagga, stating there is much indignation at the [?] telegram sent to myself, referring to the brigade's operations at the late…

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Fire at Newcastle. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle, Oct. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 7

About 20 minutes to 1 o'clock this morning the alarm of fire was raised in this city, and in a very short time a large crowd of people had congregated in Bolton-street, opposite the Lighthouse Hotel, in which building the…

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A Fire at Albury

Evening News · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 2

A private telegram in received in town, this morning, states that a destructive fire occurred at Albury last night, and that throe shops wore completely burnt. The extent of the damage has not yet been…

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Late Fire at Wagga Wagga. Wagga Wagga

Evening News · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 2

The EVENING NEWS telegram was literally correct in every particular with regard to the fire. The public to egrama referred to by Mr. Bown are all the work of Mr. F. J. Piggott, the secretary of…

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Latest Telegrams. Great Fire at Albury. ALBURY

Evening News · Friday 22 October 1880 · page 2

A large fire broke out this morning at Finney's bootshop Kiewa-street, Albury The proprietor was absent in Melbourne, and his wife and children had to be rescued from the upper story. All the…

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Disastrous Fire at Albury. [By Electric Telegraph.] Albury

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 October 1880 · page 3

A fire occurred in Kiewa-street at 4 o'clock this morning, by which a valuable two-storeyed block belonging to Mr. R. Johnson was destroyed. The block comprised three shops, occupied by Mr…

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Fires

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 16

A FURIOUS and most disastrous fire broke out at Wagga Wagga on Friday last. The fire originated, it is supposed, at the back of Adrain's furniture arcade, and the premises, as well as those…

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Petroleum Fire in Dublin

Evening News · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 4

LONDON, October 21.—A fire has occurred in Dublin, caused by the ignition of petroleum in some warehouses. A tremendous conflagration was the result, and an…

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Disastrous Fire at Wagga Wagga

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 12

A FIRE occurred in Wagga Wagga on the night of October 15, and proved exceedingly destructive. From the ADVERTISER of Tuesday we extent the following particulars:—…

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The Fire at Wagga Wagga

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 799

We are indebted to Mr. C. Bown, superintendent of the Insurance Companies Fire Brigade, for the following telegram, which was sent to him on Saturday, regarding the fire at Wagga Wagga:—…

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A Fire Averted. NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 4

A narrow escape from another great fire occurred in Newcomen-street last night. The curtain of Mr. Smith's (shoemaker) bedroom took fire and spread to the calico walls. The fire…

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Latest Telegrams. Effect of the Late Fire at Wagga. WAGGA WAGGAa

Evening News · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 4

Owing to the destraction of the Masonic Hall, and consequent difficulty of getting a place to bold a. show, the Horticultural Society have been obliged to postpone their exhibition until…

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Destructive Fire at Newcastle. [By Electric Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent. Great Loss of Property. Newcastle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 8

A LARGE fire broke outthis morning a little after 12 o'clock, at the rear of Coleman's Lighthouse Hotel, Bolton-street, which is surrounded by a number of wooden structures. Three guns were…

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Fire

Evening News · Monday 25 October 1880 · page 2

A fire, which was fortunately attended with no Tory serious consequences, occurred at 26, Bathnrnt-street, in a cottage occupied by Mrs. Macpherson. Some clothing hanging over a kerosene lamp caught…

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Disastrous Fires in France. Paris. October 22

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 October 1880 · page 3

Heavy and continuous rains have fallen in many parts of the country of Cherbourg, with disastrous results. The environs of the city are completely inundated. Great loss of…

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Destructive Fire in Cornwall

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 October 1880 · page 4

The Plymouth correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette telegraphs :--Early on the morning of the 2nd September a fire entirely destroyed the extensive paper mills belonging to Messrs. Mead, at…

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Fire in George-street

Evening News · Tuesday 26 October 1880 · page 3

Yesterday afcernoon an alarm of fire was raised, and is a very short space of time an immense crowd of spectated gathered in fornt of M'Grath's Hotel George-steert near Jamison-street where smoke was…

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Cable Messages. Fire at Manchester

Evening News · Tuesday 26 October 1880 · page 2

LONDON, October 25.— The Manchester post and telegraph office has been destroyed by fire…

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Fire at Manchester. London, Oct. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 October 1880 · page 5

The Manchester Telegraph Office has been destroyed by fire…

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