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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
4 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
Reid's Creek, Sunday, 3rd January.—The Welcome [?] at Reid's Creek, has been burned to the ground. Five dead bodies have been found, and one more life is known to have been lost. It is believed that at the least…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The long-expected vis[?]tion of fire on a large s[?]ale has at last come upon us, truly like a thief in the night, and many of our fellow-citizens who retired to sleep in ca[?]e and comfort, if not positive [?], so far as their worldly circumstances were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A parliamentary return has just been published of all sums paid for duty on insurance against fire during the past year by each of the fire insurance companies of the United Kingdom, From this document it appears that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New York Herald gives the following details of this lamentable catastrophe:- The Austria left Hamburg with the following number of passengers and crew:…
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