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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1892

202 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 11

Disastrous Fire. a Row of Buildings Destroyed. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 December 1892 · page 5

A TELEGRAPH) from Wellington (N.S.W.) states that a terrible fire broke out there about 4 o'clock to-day. A row of buildings, including Nectis and York's store and the Club House…

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Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 December 1892 · page 5

AT about 2 o'clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered in an unoccupied weatherboard cottage situated in Bryant-street, Adamstown. The local fire brigade reached…

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Disastrous Fire at Mount M'donald. The Post-Office Destroyed. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 December 1892 · page 5

ON Christmas Eve the post and telegraph office at Mount M'Donald was found to be on fire, and within an hour the building was burned to the ground. So quickly did the…

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