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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1876

7 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Fire at Messrs. Mort and Company's Freezing Works, Dixon-street. (From the Sydndy Morning Herald of Monday.0

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1876 · page 3

ON Sunday last a destructive fire broke out at Messrs. Mort and Company's meat-preserving works at the head of Darling Harbour. Nearly the whole of the outer buildings have been consumed. They…

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Great Fire in Melbourne

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1876 · page 3

ON the 1[?]th instant (reports the Argus) a fire broke out in the warehouse of Messrs. P. Falk and Co., tob[?]co and cigar merchants, general importers, and wholesale jowellers, 36 and 38, Little Collins-street…

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Disastrous Fires in Melbourne

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1876 · page 3

THURSDAY, the 25th May (the Argus says), will be rendered memorable in the anuals of the city of Melburne by the fact that three very serious and destructive fires occurred, whereby property to the value…

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Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1876 · page 4

FROM the fourth annual report, submitted to the members, at Sydney, on the 22nd June, we extract the following:- The Directors have again much pleasure in…

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Fire Selections. Thursday, September 7

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 2

JAMES SNEATH, Copmanhurst, 40 acres, county of Fitzroy, parish of Turville, unmeasured, land on the right bank of the Clarence River, opposite William Davison's freohold property, to commence at a tree…

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Destructive Fire at Chatsworth Island

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1876 · page 5

ON Tuesday morning last a very destructive fire occurred on the promises of Mr. A. M'Aulay, of Chatsworth Island, North Arm. About 4 o'clock a.m., an alarm of fire was given by Captain Greenaway, of…

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Inquest on Late Fire at Chatsworth Island

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1876 · page 4

THE Coroner for the District (Mr A. Lardner) began an inquest at the Britannia Hotel on Friday last, October 13th, rotative to the destruction by fire of the Post-office and stores, with their contents, the…

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