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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1850

2 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

The Bathurst Tree Press. Saturday, March 23, 1850. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Fire Engine

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 23 March 1850 · page 4

In the first number of the Free Press we endeavoured to draw the attention of the townspeople to the necessity of providing themselves with a Fire Engine for the…

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Destruction of Three Hundred Houses at California by Fire

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 13 July 1850 · page 6

This morning we were visited by one of those calamitous events which bring ruin and devastation upon hundreds, destroying in a few brief moments the accumulated gains…

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