The Fire at Kingston. (From the Royal Gazette, Aug. 30.)
THE melancholy task devolves upon us to record one of the most terrible visitations of Providence that has befallen the city of Kingston within the memory of this…
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17 stories in Sydney's papers
Total Destruction of the United States Steam-frigate Missouri, by Fire
CADIZ, SEPTEMBER 1.—The splendid now steam-ship B[?]ntinck arrived here from Gibraltar yesterday, confirming the intelligence which had previously reached the consulate, of the total destruction by fire of one of…
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GENTLEMEN.—The Mutual Assurance Company having been dissolved, and all the other Assurance Companies in this city having abandoned the Fire Department, it is naturally to be…
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GENTLEMEN,—I have to request that you will be so kind as to correct in your next publication, an error in the 7th and 8th clauses in the letter on Fire Insurance I addressed to you,…
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How 1 escaped from that room, and by what means I found myself in the street, I know not. My first impulse was to tear off my cravat, that I might breath more freely still a sense of…
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THERE are now no means of insuring against fire in Sydney. Those who have not agents in England to insure their property in some of the London insurance…
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A Meeting of the Provisional Committee of the Sydney Fire Insurance Company, will be held today, at No. 486, Georges-street, at two o'clock. The object is to…
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Our readers will observe by reference to our advertising columns that the nucleus of another Fire Insurance Company has been formed in the city on a modification of the mutual plan…
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WE stated some few weeks ago that a new Fire Insurance Company, upon the mutual principle, was in course of formation. It is now completely constituted, and the list of…
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Last night, about half-past seven o'clock, Mr. Ellis, of Pitt-street, observing smoke issuing from a dormer window, on the north side of the roof of the Theatre, raised…
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ON Thursday night, April 25th, shortly before twelve, a fire, attended with great, destruction of property, and with loss of life broke out in the extensive range of premises, belonging to Mr. Williams, 287,…
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CARLISLE, May 18.--Intelligence arrived in Carlisle this evening, that Naworth Castle, the old baronial seat of the Howards, in Cumberland, was on fire, and the distressing intelligence was confirmed by the…
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THE importance of insuring property from loss by fire, particularly in a crowded city, is so obvious, that there is no necessity for enteri[?]g into any argument on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. Fire Insurance. To the Editais of the Sydney Morning Herald
Gentlemen,—In your article touching Fire Insurances, and the new company established for that purpose, you state that the liability of the insurers is limited to four times the annual…
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It is impossible, as every one knows, to sit by the fire in winter time without gazing at it very earnestly; and the more you gaze, the more you see in it--strange…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →English Extracts. the Incendiary Fires in Suffolk. (From the Atlas, July 6.)
THE continued prevalence of incendiary fires in the agricultural counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, is beginning to attract serious attention. The Times newspaper,…
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