The Fire at Memel
The dreadful conflagration which has taken place here is at last subdued, and about £2,000,000 sterling has been destroyed. The shipping is all safe. All business is suspended,…
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The Late Fire. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Having read an account in your issue of to-day of the late fire at Messrs Rich, Langley, and Butchart's stores, Lower George-street, I beg leave to state (being the party alluded to belonging to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dreadful Fire at Newcastle, the papers by the Champion of the Seas furnish the following details of this extensive and distressing event
This appalling calamity, to which a brief reference has been already mnde in our columns, requires more full particulars to illustrate the full extent of the visilation. The fire broke out on Friday morning,…
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It is our painful duty to record the occurrence of another of those destructive fires which have of late entailed heavy losses upon the owners whose property has fallen a prey to the devouring element, or upon the Insurance Companies of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire at Memel
The dreadful conflagration which has taken place here has at last subdued, and about £2,000,000 sterling has been destroyed The shipping is all safe. All business is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle Fires. Newcastle-on-Tyne, Ootober 14
AFTER the express train left here yesterday the coroner for Gateshead proceeded to examine Mr. William Woods, the Managing Director of the Newcastle Fire Insurance Company, who gave evidence as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dreadful Fire at Newcastle. (From the Home News, November 9.)
One of the most, dreadful and calamitons contlas grations wihch has been heard of in recent time in this country occurred at Newcastle on the morning of the 6th ult. About one o'clock in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire Escape
THE old fire escape ladders have long ago been disused in England, and new inventions for the purposes of facilitating escape, where fires occur, have from time to time been presented to the public. No invention of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alarming Fire at Queanbeyan
On the night of Monday the inhabitants of this quiet town were thrown into a state of confusion and alarm, by a destructive fire breaking out in the stables attached to the premises occupied by Mr. G. Bates, publican, which at one time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Intelligence. the Siege of Sebastopol. Slackening of the Fire of the Besieged— Sebastopol a Mass of Ruins
A despatch from Therapia states that the captain of a ship, which left the Crimea on the 26th, brings intelligence of the slackening of the fire of the besieged. Their aim was uncertain, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne Fires. (From the Melbourne Morning Herald, February 7.)
Many persons must remember that a few years ago an invention under the title of "Phillip's Fire Anhilntor," produced a great sensation in London. Its virtues were demonstrated on the premises of…
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THE frequent recurrence of late, in Melbourne, of fires of a most alarming and destructive nature, have led to the suspicion that a screw was loose somewhere; and the conviction, on Friday, of the…
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IN the court of Queen's Bench, a case of considerable importance to insurer and insured was heard and decided on Wednesday. As it involves some nice points touching insurance matters, we readily give place to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Law. Supreme Court.—thursday. Sittings in Banco. Before the full Court. TAYLOR v. the Sydney Fire Insurance Company
This was an application by rule nisi, in Equity, to recover the sum of £500 upon a policy of insurance said to cover, with other properties, the store formerly occupied by Messrs. Stewart and Co., and consumed,…
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MR. BRAIDWOOD, the Superintendent of the London Fire Establishment, and Mr. Sampson Low, the secretary of the Royal Society for the protection of Life from Fire, have sent to the respective committees forming…
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The usnal Half-yearly Meeting of this Company was held yesterday afternoon, at their offices, in Pitt-street. There was about an average attendance; Mr. C. Kemp, the Chairman of the Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What the Sale of "Fire-water" Is Doing at Hawke's Bay. (Communicated to the New Zealander by an "Eye Witness.")
MAY I be allowed the favour, through the medium of your columns, to ask the Government and the public an important question. I am constrained to adopt this mode of appeal, fearing that every other might end in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire in Southwark. (From the Illustrated London News.)
ON Friday night, February 16, between ten and eleven o'clock, a fire, attended with the destruction of property valued at several thousand pounds sterling, and by which Mr. Thomas Jackson, stepson of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Western Districts, (From the Bathurst Fire Press, May 26.)
OUR DISTRICT GOLD COMMISSIONER.—As the circumstance of Mr. Green's obtainng 12 months' leave of absence upon half-pay has been a subject of general comment, and has elicited a strong…
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