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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1835

13 stories in Sydney's papers

Fire in the Human Body

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1835 · page 4

Uner the title of Natural Magic, Sir David Brewstor has just apded a delightul little volume to mr. Murray's Family Library, from which we ext[?]act an account of several extraordinary cases of…

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Latest Enlish Newz. (From the Morning Advertiser, Oct. 13). Skip on Fire in the London Docks

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 3 March 1835 · page 4

Yesterday morning, at about one o'clock, a fine barque belonging to Messrs. Gales, the extensive Ropemakers and Ship-owners. Shadwell, called Elizabeth,…

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English Extracts. Destruction of Both Houses of Parliament by Fire

The Colonist · Thursday 5 March 1835 · page 4

ALL topics of ordinary, however extensive interest, must yield, for the present to one which has within a few hours been brought home to the senses of the people of this metropolis—namely, the total…

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Destructive Fire at Liverpool

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1835 · page 4

[?]A fire of a most alarming description, and which threatened destruction to the whole of the large and extensive warehouses on Launcelot's Key, broke out…

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Latest English News. (From the Morning Advertiser, October 9) [?]Est[?] by Fire of a Covernment Steamer Atliverpool

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1835 · page 4

On Tuesday morning last, between two and three o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out on board the steam-packet Thetis, which is one of…

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Fire Arms. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 13 April 1835 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Having to pass daily on the South Head Road, it has for some time been a source of great inconvenience, and that not unattended with danger, through the habit which…

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The Great Fire at Westminster

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 25 April 1835 · page 4

The papers of the past week have, of course, made the most of this god-send of a subject. The Morning Herald has been peculiarly happy in its description of…

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[?]Poetry. Lines on the Destrruction of Both Houses of the British Parlament by Fire and the Preservation of Westminster Hall and A[?]ey October 16, A.D. 1834. The ascending flames. Spire with a bitter and severe delight. Count Julian

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1835 · page 4

THE night was lovely; and the south-west wind Crisp'd the dim surface of the broad, smooth Thames, With sail [?]furl'd to the October gale, Our gallant bark bore bravely down the stream…

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The Cause of the Late Dreadful Fire

The Australian · Friday 22 May 1835 · page 3

"Bumour has already been busy with busy hundred tongues," as to the cause" of the late conflagration. As there are so many flying reports" on the wing, we have…

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Fire at the Benedictine Convent at Hammersmith, and Melancholy Loss of Life

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 4 July 1835 · page 4

About a quarter before five o'clock yesterday morning an alarming fire broke out in the nunnery, in King-street, near the Broadway, Hammersmith…

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Narrative of the Loss of the Ship Earl of Eldon by Fire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1835 · page 4

On the 24th August, 1834, I embarked on board the ship Earl of Eldon (of London, 600 tons, Captain Theaker) at Bombay, with a view of returning to my native land,…

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Literature and Science. a Fire in the Woods

The Colonist · Thursday 10 December 1835 · page 5

THE following appalling account of one of these scenes of devastation is given by Mr. Audubon as he received it from the mouth of a woodcutter We were sound asleep one, night, in a cabin about…

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Life and Fire Insurance Company

The Colonist · Thursday 31 December 1835 · page 4

A COMPANY of the above description is about to be formed in Sydney. Its formation has been suggested by several gentlemen, actuated by a desire to benefit their fellow-colonists; the…

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