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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1853

45 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 3

Destructive Fire in Melbourne

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 12 November 1853 · page 4

We give the following abridged account of the destructive fire in Collins-street, from the Banner, of the 1st instant:- It would appear that the flames were first seen to issue from the rear of the premises tenanted by Mr. Benjamin, the tobacconist…

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Victoria. Fires

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 November 1853 · page 7

FALSE ALARM OF FIRE.--On Saturday evening about ten o'clock, an alarm of fire near the Supreme Court was given at the Victoria Insurance Company's depot. Sergeant Hadly and Superintendent Dalton turned out with the engine and hastened to…

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Victoria. Destructive Fire in Flinders Lane

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 November 1853 · page 2

About 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, Nov. 13th some of the servants of the Criterion Hotel, seeing an unusual light in some adjacent buildings on the opposite side of Flinders-lane, gave an alarm…

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Destructive Fire at Messrs. J. Scott Russell, and Co.'s Steamship Manufactory. (From the Times, September 12.)

Empire · Monday 19 December 1853 · page 3

On Saturday morning last Poplar was visited by a fire which, in the course of a few hours, laid in ruins property roughly estimated in value at upwards of £100,000…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—wednesday. Sittings in Banco. (Before the full Court.) the Union Bank of Australia v. the Sydney Fire Insurance Company

Empire · Thursday 29 December 1853 · page 2

This was a proceeding by rule nisi in equity, to obtain a decree that the respondents were liable to pay to the complainants the sum of £1000, being the amount of damage claimed to…

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