South Australia. the Late Destruction the Crops by Fire
Within the last fortnight, we have had several instances in the province of the destruction of the crops by fire. The most disastrous of these is that…
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20 stories in Sydney's papers
Destruction of the Ship India by Fire
RIO JANEIRO, July 25.--On Monday, the 19th inst. our ship the India was in 14 degrees south latitude; after breakfast one of the passengers came to the cabin and reported that a strange sail was in view. Not…
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During the afternoon of yesterday Major Hall, Mr. Stacey, the Superintendent of the Government stores, and others, were enabled to visit the Bowyer Tower in which the fire originated and…
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The partial destruction of the Lady Raffles by fire, when on the point of sailing with a valuable cargo for London, suggests to our mercantile community in a…
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On Thursday morning, about half past seven o'clock, as the Lady Raffles was about proceeding from her anchorage in the Cove to the Stream, previous to her departure for Liverpool, she was…
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About twelve o'clock on Friday night last, the premises of Mr. Hughes, tallow chandler, of Bathurst-street west, near the coal wharf of Messrs. Morley and Steele, were discovered to be on fire…
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[In our publication of the 7th instant, we give a short account of this fire, as communicated by our Correspondent.] [From the Auckland Standard," April 4.)…
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About half-past eight o'clock this morning, the inhabitants of Auckland were thrown into the utmost consternation, by the outbreak of fire in the office of the Surveyor General, in Official Bay. No sooner…
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ABOUT half-past eight o'clock this morning, the inhabitants of Auckland were thrown into the utmost consternation, by the outbreak of fire in the office of the…
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Mr. Berry, now of the Colonial Council, in an interesting paper upon various Australian subjects, published twenty years ago, ascribed the difficult…
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An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in the Fire Insurance Association took place in the School of Arts, yesterday morning, for the purpose of considering the present state…
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WE have just received, by the Coun[?]ess of Lonsdale, steam-boat, which reached London this evening, intelligence of the most disastrous kind.—Hamburgh had been almost…
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A great part of this rich and flourishing town has fallen a prey to a fearful and widely spreading fire, which hourly sweeps in volumes through street upon street, with merciless fury. It burst…
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"AT 9, a.m., perceived a strange smell in the cabin; at noon overhauled the whole vessel, but found nothing to account for it, at 30' past noon, cleared the sail cabins,…
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Extract from the "Log Book" of the ship Renown, Captain William Hoskin, on her voyage from Sydney, New South Wales, bound to Liverpool:—…
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Extract from the Log Book of the ship Renown, Captain William Hoskin, on her voyage from Sydney, New South Wales, bound to Liverpool, Saturday, June 25,…
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Patriot Office, 5 o'clock, Monday Morning. We stop the Press to announce to our readers the distressing intelligence, that about half-past ten o'clock at night a tremendous fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Intelligence. (Continued from the Inner Pages.) Third Attempt to Fire at the Queen
Sunday afternoon (July 3,) a feeling of most intense and painful excitement was occasioned throughout the metropolis, by the circulation of a report that…
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SIR,—It was my intention, agreeably with my usual practice, to have waited upon you to-day with my monthly circular, but as general business has been completely paralysed during…
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Towards one o'clock this morning, Lloyd's the baker's house, was found to be on fire. This house is situated about 400 yards on the Te Aro Flat, side of Colonel Wakefield's…
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