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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1869

8 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Dreadful Bush Fires in the Southern Coast District

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 January 1869 · page 2

A GENTLEMAN, who has just arrived in Sydney from Twofold Bay, has favored us with the following particulars of the ravages of the bush fires in that district :—…

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Destruction by Fire of the Homebush Grand Stand

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 January 1869 · page 4

THE Grand Stand at Homebush, which was erected and finished at an expense of about £1000 some twelve months ago, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning; and…

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The Fire King’s Mail

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 30 January 1869 · page 3

WE condense the following items from Sydney papers brought by the Fire King. The following are the stations assigned to Wesleyan clergymen for the next year…

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Port Macquarie. Fire at the Gaol with Serious Damage to the Building— Case of Cruelty to an Animal —Visit of the Quakers

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 February 1869 · page 2

OUR own correspondent writes as followers : —On last Saturday, about one o’clock, a fire occurred at the gaol, which was only saved from total destruction by the untiring…

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General News. Accident to the Fire King

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 March 1869 · page 4

Yesterday evening.at 8 o’clock. as the Fire King ’[?]was returning from Balmoral, with a large number of excursionists on board, she came into collision with the barque…

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The Fire King

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 15 May 1869 · page 3

Up to Six o’clock last night the latest information we were able to obtain in reference to the Fire King was as follows:—The vessel attempted to go out on Saturday morning, the…

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Destructive Fires in London

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 19 June 1869 · page 3

ABOUT 11 O’clock on Monday night one of the largest fires that has occurred in the metropolis for several months past broke out in the extensive hop warehouse of Mr. Frith, situated at the…

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Fire on Board the Platypus

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 25 September 1869 · page 2

IT will be observed in another column that an inquiry was held on Thursday last concerning the fire on baud the Platypus (a.) From what we can learn, the weather for some time before the…

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