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Fires & bushfires, 1887

44 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 3

Fire in London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 December 1887 · page 2

A great fire occured at the London [?] house of Messrs H. Warner and Co. on Saturday, which was totally destroyed. The damage is estimated at fifty thousand…

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Destruction of a Great Painting by Fire

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 December 1887 · page 4

By a cablegram received on Tuesday last, the Melbourne branch of the house of H. H. Warner and Co., manufacturers of Warner's Safe Remedies, was…

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" Fire."

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 December 1887 · page 5

Christmas night. was a wild one. Black clouds, betokening a to[?]do of rain, were swept inward over the Great Barrier towards the tall steeples and the lofty…

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Destructive Fire at Redfern. (From Thursday's Echo.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1887 · page 7

The usual quiet town of Redfern was somewhat startlingly diaturbed about three o'clock this morning by an alarming outbreak of fire, which occurred in the stores of Meaars. Anthony Hordern and Sons,…

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