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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1863

4 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Extensive Fire in Queen-street, Brisbane. (From the Queensland Guardian.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1863 · page 2

THE most extensive fire that has occurred in Brisbane since separation broke out on premises in Queen-street, opposite Messrs. G. Raff and Co.'s stores, and contiguous to the…

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European News. Port Sumter Totally Destroyed. Bombardment of Charleston. Use of Greek Fire by the Federals. Russians Defeated by the Poles in Several Engagements

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1863 · page 4

H. M. Transport ship Himalaya, Captain Edward Lacy, arrived at Melbourne having made the passage from Portsmouth in sixty nine days, calling at the Cape of Good Hope and Ceylon. She has on…

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[?] Pioneer Under a Galling Fire at Meremere. the Result Most Satisfactory. the Cannons of the Enemy Supposed to Be Handled by Europeans

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 November 1863 · page 3

ON the 2[?]th ultimo the Pioneer went up to Meremere to see how the land lay, and if possible ascertain whether the natives were still in force at that place, or had as many suspected, decamped before…

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Greek Fire. (From the Social Science Review.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 15 December 1863 · page 4

THE term "Greek fire," as applied to the substance which the Federals are pouring into Charleston, is a misnomer. The secret of the manufacture of the original Greek fire has been lost for nearly 950 years,…

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