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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
11 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Madrid on the 4th instant, says:—"The announcement telegraphed from Madrid on Wednesday to the effect that the grand old Monastery of the Escurial was on fire, and that fears…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Wednesday about half-past two o'clock a destructive fire broke out in Lower George-street, in one of the homes known as Underwood's-buildings. The conflagration rapidly spread to adjoining houses, almost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE FIRE has occurred hero, which has annihilated the finest business quarter of te city. The where district burnt was built during the past decade, at a vast expense. It consisted of magaificent streets…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A great fire occourred at Melbourne, on Monday evening. Connell, Watson, and Hogarth's wholesale groceries establishment, worth £15,000, and stock valued at £75,000, have been destroyed. Every…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is our painful duty to chronicle one of the most disastrous fires that has over befallen Newcastle. Shortly after twelve o'clock on Saturday night a fire broke out in Hunter-street, nearly opposite the Pilot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT a quarter to eleven on Saturday night, 19th instant, a number of persons residing near Woolloomooloo Bay discovered that the promises between Dowling and Duke streets, occupied by Seamer and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CAPTAIN W. O. [?]ER, late master of the [?], and R.R.S. N. Company's steamship Fire King, recently wreeked on the Manning River, arrived at Sydney at one o'clock on Wednesday morning, in the Morpeth (s.). The following particulars of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY the heedless conduct of a plumber, the Alexandra Palace at Muswell Hill was, on June 9th, totally destoyed by fire. The newest place of amusement in the metropolis, it had been the resort of many…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LAST night (Wednesday, September 3rd), about hal[?] past eleven o'clock, as some passers by were coming up Hunter-street, they observed smoke issuing from the front shutters of Mr. E. D. Cleary's premises, at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A LAROE PLUS broke out at Auckland in the centre of Queen-street off the night of the 6th instant. The fire was first discovered in Powley's millenery establishment. It raged with great fury, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHORTLY after midnight on the 15th October a fire broke out in the stores of Henderson and Macfarlane, situated at the [?]ear of their main premises in Queen-street. This building, constructed of brick, with corrugated iron roof, is only one of a row of…
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