Domestic Intelligence. Fire Insurance
THE case of Mr. George Smith of George Street, whose letter appeared in our last publication, has excited great interest, and indeed a great sensation amongst the…
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Domestic Intelligence. Fire Insurance
THE case of Mr. George Smith of George Street, whose letter appeared in our last publication, has excited great interest, and indeed a great sensatiou amongst the…
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SIR,—Will you allow me, through the columns of your journal, to put a very important question to the Managers of the Assurance Companies? If my stock be worth £10,000, and I insure…
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A letter from Mr. GEORGE SMITH, of George Street, has recently been going the round of the public newspapers, narrating the nature and result of is transaction with…
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SIR,—In reply to a letter of your Correspondent, A. B. C, in the Herald of last Thursday, enquiring if his stock, worth £10,000, be insured for £5,000, and the properly be damaged by fire…
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SIR,—In reply to your Correspondent ABC, of yesterday, I beg to state that Insurances against Fire are very much on the same principle as Marine Insurances…
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MR EDITOR—Several letters have been written and published in the Sydney newspapers on the subject of the law or custom, as regards the payment of loss by…
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Audi alter am partem is a good maxim, and one which we are ever ready to act up to, in conformity with our avowed principles, of being open to all parties ; unduly…
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Audi alteram partem is a good maxim, and one which we are ever ready to act up to, in conformity with our avowed principles, of being open to all parties; unduly…
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[The following article on Insurance was written for our last number, and was in type before Mr. Smith's letter was received for publication. We accordingly left out remarks on the subject…
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A great deal of unnecessary cavilling has taken place relative to the amount paid Mr. Smith, of George-street, for the loss sustained by the late fire. But up to the…
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By the arrival of the Sultana, from Liverpool, at Hobart Town, we learn the confirmation of our previous report of the destruction of the above noble, edifice…
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"On Wednesday night a destructive fire laid waste this extensive commercial building, one of the most magnificent in Europe. Soon alter ten o'clock, the fire broke out in Lloyd's Coffee room, at the north east corner of the…
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The immense crowds who had stayed to watch the progress of the flames during Wednesday night were replaced on Thursday morning by still more dense masses of anxious spectators, who came to see the wreck of this…
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Ono of the most terrific and destructive conflagrations that has occurred for some time past in the metropolis broke out this morning in the premises of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Building Act. Petition from certain Householders, Proprietors of Property, Builders, and others, in the town of Sydney, Representing that certain of the Clauses of the Act of the Governor and Council, 8 Wm. IV, No. 6, intituled, "An Act for regulating Buildings and Party-walls, and for preventing mischiefs by Fire, in the town of Sydney," have proved burdensome and vexatious in sundry instances, as set forth in the said Petition, and praying for the reconsideration and amendment of the same.To His Excellency Sir George Gipps, Knight, C. B., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the colony of the New South Wales and its Dependencies, &c., &c., and the Honourable the Legislative Council
WE, the undersigned householders, proprietors of property, builders, &c., in the town of Sydney, feeling ourselves aggrieved by a certain act, passed by the Honourable Legislative Council on…
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WE shall take leave to introduce a question which has been matter of some interest one the Continent, viz., as to the expediency of employing steam in lieu of water for extinguishing fires…
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The present Meeting of Proprietors has been convened to receive the Annual Report of the Directors, and they have much pleasure in being enabled to submit one of a favorable nature…
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By the Currency Lass, which arrived on Saturday, we received the following from our New Zealand Correspondent:—EXTRACT FROM THE LOG BOOK OF THE "JAMES…
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Shortly before five o'clock on Tuesday morning (March 6) the residents and neighbourhood of the Inner Temple were alarmed by a fire breaking out at the north end of…
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