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Fires & bushfires, 1836

24 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

Life and Fire Insurance Company

The Colonist · Thursday 7 January 1836 · page 5

IN our last number we stated that a Company of the above, description was in contemplation, and that we hoped to be able to announce officially this week that it was formed. We have not been disappointed in our…

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Fire and Life Assurance Company

The Colonist · Thursday 14 January 1836 · page 4

THIS Company is in due course of formation, and although the attention of the Commercial part of our Community has been directed principally to the completion of the Marine…

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The Australian Fire and Life Assurance Company

The Australian · Friday 15 January 1836 · page 2

PROSPECTUS.—The advantages that have accrued to the shareholders and to the public at large, by the formation of Fire and life assurance Companies in Great…

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The Life and Fire Insurance Company

The Colonist · Thursday 28 January 1836 · page 4

A Public Meeting was held yesterday, at the Pulteney Hotel, for the purpose of forming a Life and Fire Insurance Company in Sydney, it it was most respectably though not very…

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Epitaph on Agnes, Wife of Leonard Darr, Esq., 1596. From a Brass Plate in the Old Church of St. Stephens' Coleman-street, previous to the Great Fire

The Australian · Tuesday 1 March 1836 · page 4

Our life is all in death. Time that ensueth Is but the death of Time that went before: Youth is the death of childhood—Age of Youth; Die once to God, and then thou die'st no more…

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Temperance Societies in New South Wales. a Country Fire-side Conversation, by Mr. R. from Town, with Mestrs. P. and M. in th Country. " Now stir the fire—now close the shutters fast— let fall the curtains—wheel the o'a round; and while the hubb'ing and loud hissing urn throws up a column, let our strife commence." COWPER

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1836 · page 2

R.—I was rather surprised to hear, Mr. P., that you had declined to become a member of our Temperance Society; because, from what I kuow of your…

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Temperance Societies in New South Wales. a Country Fire-side Conversation. by Mr. R. from Town, with Messrs. P. and M. in the Country. 'Now stir the fire—close the shulters fast— lot fall the curtains—wheel the [?] ound; and while the [?] ing and long hissing [?] throws up a column, let our strife commence." COWPER. (Concluded from our last.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1836 · page 2

The scope of the Rev. H. J—'s reasouing is—" that as no person in born a tippler, all people are, or have been once temperate, and provided all people would…

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"Destruction of the Edinburgh by Fire!"

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1836 · page 2

Authentic intelligence was yesterday received by the Government from Mr. Gray, Police Magistrate of Wolongong, that the crew and passengers of the…

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Dreadful Event! Destruction of Hatfield House by Fire, and Death by Burning of the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 30 April 1836 · page 4

A great portion of this splendid man[?]ion was burned down on Friday night, and the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury fell a victim t the flames. The fire…

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Canton. Fire at Canton

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 5 May 1836 · page 4

During the week we have been favored with several communications from our Canton Correspondent to the 24th of February, received since our last number and from which we subjoin a few items…

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Fire & Life Assurance Company

The Australian · Tuesday 17 May 1836 · page 2

THE following is the Report of the Chairman of the Committee read and passed at the Public Meeting, held at tho Palteney Hotel on Friday last. After the reading…

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Fire and Life Assurance Company

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 18 May 1836 · page 2

The following is the Report of the Chairman of the Committee read aud passed at the Public Meeting, held at the Pulteney Hotel, on Friday last. After the reading…

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Fire and Life Assurance Company

The Colonist · Thursday 19 May 1836 · page 3

A PUBLIC Meeting of this Company was held at the Pulteney Hotel, on Friday last, pursuant to advertisement, which was numerously attended. Mr. Lamb, the Chairman of the…

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English Extracts. Destruction of a Large Portion of the City of New York by Fire

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 28 May 1836 · page 4

NEW YORK has been for fif[?]een hours in flames! They are not yet extinguished. A large section, and that the oldest and most wealthy portion of the city, is in…

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Fire and Life Assurance Company

The Colonist · Thursday 2 June 1836 · page 4

A Meeting of the Shareholders in the above Company was held at the Pulteney Hotel, on Friday last, for the purpose of choosing Directors for the ensuing year. The following are the…

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Fire and Life Insurance Company

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 30 June 1836 · page 2

We rejoice to hear that this new Inati tution, at the corner of Barrack lane, is doing already n fair average business, and thal it promises to become ono of the most…

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Dreadful Fire at New York, and Destruction of Property to an Immense Amount. Portsmouth, Saturday, Jan. 8,1836

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1836 · page 4

The "Toromto" packe, arrived here yesterday, in 17 days from New York, bringing intelligence of a sad calamity having occurred in that city by fire. When the…

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The Fire-brand Colonist

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 6 July 1836 · page 2

MR. Tegg is a seller of books, and feels it due to himself no doubt to publish any thing that the laws may permit, which will turn him an honest penny. Dr. Lang…

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English Extracts. Dreadful Fire in a Theatre, One Hundred and Twenty-six Persons Burnt

The Colonist · Thursday 11 August 1836 · page 7

ST. PETERSBURGH, SUNDAY, FEB. 14.—This, the first day of the holidays, was a day affliction; at four in the afternoon, a fire broke out at Lahaman's theatrical booth, from a lamp which was hung too high…

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Destructive Fire in Bondstreet, and in Burlington Arcade

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 7 September 1836 · page 4

Saturday night, about half past ten o'clock, the neighbourhood of Old Bond street was thrown into a state of the utmost consternation and alarm by the…

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