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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1882

4 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Large Fire at the Junee Railway Station. COOTAMUNDRA

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 3 February 1882 · page 3

Junee Railway Station and Cashier’s popular refreshment rooms were totally destroyed by fire yesterday evening. At about 6 p.m. an alarm was raised that fire…

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Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY, 23rd Feb., 1882, 8 p.m. London. Monday. Fire, Massachusetts

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 24 February 1882 · page 5

Great fire at Massachusetts estimated damage two million dollars. Egypt. With regard to the wish of the British…

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Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY, 23rd March, 1882, 5 p.m. London. Monday. Fire—Albert Dry Docks

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 24 March 1882 · page 5

A fire was discovered in a shed at the Albert Dry Docks. Before is was extinguished a considerable portion of the building, and its contents were destroyed. It is…

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The Fire at Wright’s, Sydney

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 17 November 1882 · page 3

WE reprint from the Sydney Morning Herald a report of the case against William Dunn, charged with setting fire to the house of Mr. Wright, in Sydney—by which…

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