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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1849

4 stories in Sydney's papers

Sydney Fire Insurance Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1849 · page 3

THE half-yearly meeting of the members of this Company was held yesterday, Mr. T. W. SMART in the chair. The business was entirely of a routine nature. The following…

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Dreadful Fires in New York, Destruction of 154 Horses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 May 1849 · page 3

ON Sunday morning, the 19th ultimo, four different fires, (three of them stated to be the work of incendiaries) broke out in the city of New York. The first was at the extensive…

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The Fire in Bathurst-street. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 May 1849 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—A letter (more impudent than correct) on the subject of the fire in Bathurststreet, signed by the "City Fireman and Turncock," having appeared in yonr issue of…

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Sydney Fire Insurance Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1849 · page 2

THE fifth annual meeting of the members of the Sydney Fire Insurance Company was held yesterday, at the Company's Offices, Pitt-street, Mr. T. W. Smart in the Chair, when the…

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