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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1892

1,458 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 73

The Fire on Board the W. H. Lincoln

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1892 · page 4

Messrs. Fraser and Co. are to sell alongside the ship to-day, at 2.30 p.m., the masts, yards, gear, and rigging belonging to the W. H. Lincoln…

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Fetters of Fire: a Novel of Stirring Incident. [Now First Published.] (All Rights Reserved.) Contents. Chapter

Evening News · Friday 8 January 1892 · page 7

XI. NEMESIS. XII. "MOOD AND TENSE." XIII. LOTHARIO. XIV. AT LAST…

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Bush Fires

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 62

At Christmas time hot weather can always be expected, but 97.5 in the shade recorded at the Sydney Observatory on Wednesday, 30th ultimo, was excessive. This is the highest temperature…

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The Cause of Bush Fires

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 46

ALBURY, Tuesday— David O'Connor, an elderly man, who for four months past has been camped on the reserve at Kirndeen Station, splitting sleepers for the Corowa railway, appeared, on…

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Extensive Bush Fires. Young

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 6

Extensive bush fires are raging in the vicinity of Qninas-Grenfell road, seven miles from Young…

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Great Devastation by Bush Fires. Albury

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 65

A man named David O'Connor was charged this morning at the local police court with carelessly using fire at Kirndren on the 29th December. Owing to accused's carelessness in lighting a camp fire in the…

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Bush Fires Still Raging. a Schoolhouse Burnt

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 46

The hush fires continue to rage in various parts of the country, and they are doing immense, damage.. Unlike fires in cities and towns, they are not easily grappled with. There…

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Latest About the Bush Fires. Great Damage Done

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 10

WE learn by telegraph from Albury that the latest reports from parts of River[?] which have been laid waste by the terrible bush fires state that nearly all the fires have now been gor under…

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Bush Fires. Great Destruction in the Albury District

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 4

ALBURY, Friday. -- It was hoped that the bush lives were all extinguished ; but, unfortunately, two fires broke out yesterday -- one at Boomaroomana and another at Savernake,…

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Bush Fires in New South Wales. Heavy Losses of Selectors

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 19

GUNDAGAI, Monday.— A fire, which has been run, Adelong Crossing, and toward Hillas Creck, has been very destructive. Owing to the stong…

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Buffalo Grass to Resist Bush Fires. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 66

Sir.—Can nothing be done to disarm in some degree the fire flend in regard to bush fires! I think if a belt of country were ploughed and sown, with buffalo grass that these belts would furnish a vantage ground whence to fight…

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Destructive Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday. -- Two fires occurred this morning. One destroyed four houses at Torwood, and the other destroyed two shops in Stanley-street…

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The [?] Fires

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 13

No tales of terror told anywhere this Christmas can have surpassed the [?] enacted in this country during the late, to so many of us, purely festive season. While we, more fortunate, have…

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Fires in Brisbane. Brisbane

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 6

Two fires occurred in Brisbane this morning. One destroyed four houses in Torwood-street, and the other destroyed two shops in Stanley-street…

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Fires in Sydney. Record for 1891

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 28

The total number of alarms received for fires, or supposed fires, in Sydney and suburbs last year was 326, as against 298 in 1890. Of those 62 were false alarms in 1891, and 44 in 1890. In…

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Fire in Brisbane

Evening News · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 6

BRISBANE, Friday.—A fire broke out this morning at 2 o'clock at the residence of Senior-Con-stable George, in Heissler-street, Torwood, which resulted in the destruction of that and three…

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Big Fire at Narrandera

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 11

A very disastrous fire occurred at Narrandera on December 31, when Elysea Richards's restaurant and Princes's bakery were completely destroyed. The fire bell started…

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A Refiner's Fire. Selected

The Methodist · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 2

" For He is like a refiner's fire. And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier "of silver" (Pvlalachi iii: 2, 3). A lady in Dublin became interested in the meaning…

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The Silver Country. Broken Hill, January 6. Fires

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 17

On Saturday evening the third fire for the new year broke out, when several bedrooms at the back of a steam laundry were partially destroyed. By the aid of willing hands and a little water the flames were…

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Largest Fire Engine in the World

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 82

A NEW steam fire engine, built by Messrs. Shand and Mason, London, to the order of the Fire Brigades Board of New South Wales, arrived in Sydney on Saturday by the steamer Port Douglas…

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