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Fires & bushfires, 1872

5 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Great Fire in Sydney

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 January 1872 · page 2

COLUMNS of the city papers are taken up with an account of a fire which broke out in Sydney on Saturday morning last, causing the instruction of the Prince of Wales Theatre and some…

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A Wedding in Chicago after the Fire

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 January 1872 · page 4

THE New York Tribune correspondent gives this spicy sketch of a wedding in the burnt-out city :— The atmosphere was full of startling and…

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Arrival of the English Mail, Via Suez. the Prince of Wales Still Living. More Trouble in France. Officers of the Megera Acquitted. Mr. Disraleps Disclaimer. the Great Four-cared Race. Sir Charles Dilke Repudlated. Abolition of Juries in Ireland. Great Fire at Botherville. Latest News, December 24

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 January 1872 · page 4

WE condense from the Herald’s report so much of the news as has not already been published. It will be observed that the telegrams are twelve days later than those…

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Arrival of the English Mall, per Bangalore. News to March 14. Assault Upon the Queen. the Prince of Wales Gone Abroad. Break Down of the Tichborne Case. the Claimant Arrested for Perjury. Things Look Squally in France. Return of the Bishop of Sydney. Revolution in Mexico. Great Fire in Toronto. Sir Hercules Robinson to Arrive in June

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 3

The Alexandria arrived at Adelaide on Saturday last. The English news appeared in Monday’s Herald, and was brought ,to [?] by the Fire King on Wednesday. Among the…

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A Fire Proof Man

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 November 1872 · page 2

IN the year 1869, one Lionetto, a Spaniard, as tonished not only the ignorant, but chemists and other men of science in France, Germany, Italy, and England, by the impunity with which he…

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