Sydney Fire Insurance Company
THE half-yearly meeting of the members of the Sydney Fire Insurance Company was held yesterday, at their Office, Pitt-street, Mr. T. W. Smart in the chair. The…
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Fire at Singapore
BY advices received yesterday, we learn that a devastating fire has occurred at Singapore. We are not in possession of particulars…
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It is our melancholy duty to describe a fire which burst forth at the Coach and Horses, St Martin's-lane, kept by Ben Caunt), on Wednesday morning, by which three lives were lost, two…
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THE ancients so well appreciated the value of fire that they said it descended direct from Heaven. The Red man of America, the savage of the South Seas, and every barbarous land have so well recognized its merits, that man has been called "a cooking animal"…
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WE are sorry to have to announce that about twelve o'clock on Wednesday night, the Stockton Cloth Factory, (opposite Newcastle) was discovered to be on fire; and notwithstanding…
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WE regret to learn that about one o'clock on Saturday morning, the ship-chandlery stores of Messrs. Mitchell and Tully, at Newcastle, were discovered to be on fire, and in about an…
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BY the Creole, we have received intelligence from San Francisco to the 16th of May. San Francisco on the 4th of May was again burnt to ashes. Within the previous eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →California.—another Destructive Fire at San Francisco. by the Crcole, we have received intelligence from San Francisco to the 16th of May
San Francisco on the 4th of May was again burnt to ashes. Within the previous eighteen months the finest parts of the city had been four times destroyed; but this last…
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ON the night of yesterday (2nd July), the Stockton Tweed Cloth Manufactory was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The conflagration was apparently occasioned by the…
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We are indebted to Captain Whitney, of the steamer C. M. Weber, for a Journal extra, giving an account of a most destructive fire at Stockton, on Wednesday night. The lateness of the hour…
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San Francisco on the 4th of May was again burnt to ashes. The ravages are thus described:— Commencing on the west side of Portsmouth-square, it extended down Clay-street; then to the…
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On the night of yesterday, July 2, Mr. Robert Fisher's Tweed Cloth Manufactory at Stockton was almost entirely consumed by fire. The conflagration was apparently occasioned by…
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By the "Creole." we have received intelligence, from San Francisco to the 16th of May. San Francisco on the 4th of May was again burnt to ashes. Within the previous eighteen…
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MY earliest recollections go back to a time when I was little better than a baby; a dirty little urchin of some two or three years of Age, whom the moat careful mother in the world could not have kept clean or tidy, let her take all the pains she would. My…
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FROM what I have already said, you may form a very shrewd guess that funerals in our neighbourhood were not conducted with any of that pomp and splendour which form so hideous a mockery of was among those ranks who dwell in high places; there were no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lines Written on the Destruction of the Tweed Factory at Stockton, by Fire, on the Night of Wednesday, July 2, 1851, by Thomas Fennell, Late R. N.
Alas poor Stockton, how has fortune's frown, Destroy'd thy hopes and cast thy honors down; A few short days ago, thou wert indeed, The unrivall'd market, for colonial tweed…
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FROM that time I became intimate with the family, and was a favorite with them all. I was not a little benefited by it, and used to look upon their house as a haven of refuge, when I could for a while forget the misery which was gradually darkening my own…
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HAVING taken leave of my new acquaintance, I walked slowly homewards, musing long and seriously upon the history which I had listened to that afternoon, and although the high ground which I was traversing afforded one of the best views of the rising…
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In common, however, with many enlightened statesmen, he was in error; he fancied that dogging was the best way to cure folly or error, but be failed. I became hardened and looked upon a thrashing as such a matter of course, that I would have missed it…
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THIS intelligence was communicated to me in the most solemn manner in the assembled school by the learned professor, and he accompanied it with a moral lesson so instructive and so impressive that, to use the words of the junior ushers, it would have…
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