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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
5 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
One of the most extensive and disastrous fires that has ever yet taken place in this town destroyed last evening some of the most valuable property in the Market-square and Cerio-street, brining to the ground [?] the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday morning, about half past two o'clock, fire was discovered issuing from a large. four-storey building, situated behind the buildings at the south west corner of Royal Exchange Square, with entrances from the Square…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Times correspondent, writing on the 19th of January, sends the following particulars:— At five o'clock this morning the city was thrown into a state of the greatest excitement by an announcement that the Bank of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible conflagration look place at Ballanrat on Thursday, the 9th instant. The Star, of the following day, has the subjoined account of the disaster:—Again we have visited by one of those terrible…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Wednesday evening a meeting of the Maitland Fire Brigade was held at the Fitz Roy Herd, at which the following Report was read and adopted. Mr. Wise all occupied the chair…
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