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Fires & bushfires, 1855

3 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

British Extracts. the Disastrous and Fatal Fire at Newcastle

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1855 · page 1

We find the following additional particulars of this calamity in the English papers[?] The Northern Fxaminer makes the following remarks—"As the fire of London followed in the…

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I'm Sitting by the Old Fire-side. (From Bentley's Miscellany.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1855 · page 2

I'm sitting by the old fire-side, Where I've sat many a time When a mother's smiles encouraged me Upon her lap to climb…

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Colonial News. Victoria. Great Fire at Ballaarat. Several Lives Lost

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 December 1855 · page 1

We have received Melbourne papers to the 3rd December. (From a correspondent of the Melbourne Morning Herald.)…

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