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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1870

2 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Extensive Fire in Melbourne

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1870 · page 2

THEIR was an extensive conflagration in Flindersstreet on Thursday night, at Mr. Mills' saw mills and timber yard, opposite the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company. A great deal of property…

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Disastrous Fire at Sydney. Destruction of £50,000 Worth of Property. (From the Herald)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1870 · page 3

AT twenty minutes before three o'clocj on Wednesday morning flames were observed to be proceeding from an upper floor of one of a range of wool stores occupted by Mr. Flood, and situated at the eastern side of the Circular Quay. His stores…

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