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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1862

3 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Destructive Fire in King-street

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1862 · page 3

SHORTLY after six o'clock on Sunday morning dense volumes of smoke were observed issuing from the upper portion of a building in Bank Court, of King-street, occupied as a…

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Destructive Fire in Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 2 September 1862 · page 3

WE are informed by Captain Creer, that on the night he sailed from Sydney, a large fire was raging. By the Hunter River steamer, which left Sydney an hour later, he learnt…

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Great Fire in George-street, Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1862 · page 2

FOLLOWING swiftly upon the calamity recently recorded in our columns, we have now, to chronicle the occurrence of another destructive fire, which broke out on…

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