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Fires & bushfires, 1865

2 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Terrible Fire in Constantinople; Above One Hundred Lives Lost

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 June 1865 · page 4

THE [?] Herald gives a full account of a terrible and disastrous fire at Constantinople on the 20th of last month. It broke out shortly after eleven o’clock at night, in the…

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Great Fire in Sydney

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 July 1865 · page 3

WE received the following telegram, at ten minutes past eleven yesterday morning, from our Sydney telegraphic correspondent giving a few brief particulars of a most destructive…

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