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Fires & bushfires, 1868

3 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Destructive Fire in George Street

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 March 1868 · page 3

A FIRE of a very alarming character broke out yesterday afternoon (Sunday) in the stores of Mr. J. B. Holdsworth, ironmonger, situated at the rear of his shop in George…

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The Fire King. (To the Editor of the Manning River News.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 25 April 1868 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—I notice by your paper that dissatisfaction exists because the FIRE KING does not make regular trips to Tinonee. My answer to this is that my orders to Captain Hersee are…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail News to September 1st Wool Lower Queen in Switzerland Insane Intended Assassin Arrested War Between France and Germany Imminent Awful Railway Accident Outrages and Murders in Tipperary Duke of Edinburgh at Paris to Leave for the East in October Fire at St. Petersburgh Panama Mail Streamer Broke Down Great Fire at Southwark Atlantic Cable Broken Exciting Stowaways Incident

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 October 1868 · page 3

Maitland Mercury office, Monday noon We have received the following important mail telegram from our Sydney correspondent The Bombay left Galle on the 8th and…

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