Later From California. Great Fire at Nevada
Via Melbourne, we have Culitornia papers to the 26th [?] May. A destructive fire had occurred in the city of Nevada on the 3r[?]d. The following particulars are contained…
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Disastrous Fire at Auckland, N. Z.
By Auckland papers, recently to hand, accounts have been received of a destructive fire which broke out in that city on the 7th ultimo, and which resulted in the destruction of sixty or seventy buildings. The fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Fire at Auckland. (Abridged from the New Zealander, July 10th.)
THIS calamity occurred early on Wednesday morning, 7th July, and more than one circumstance has transpired to give rise to the suspicion that the origin of the fire, if not an act of positive incendiarism, is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Incautious Use of Fire-arms. To the Editors of the Sydney Mornign Herald
SIR,—It appears to me that there is a most dangerous licence for the use of fire-arms in the neighbourhood of Sydney, and one which very soon will lead to some serious casualty. I have had occasion on two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destructive Fire at Limehouse
On Saturday night (the 19th June) a fire broke out at Limehouse, which, for magnitude and destruction of valuable property, has not been equalled by any confiagration in the me'ropolis since that which…
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THE half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Sydney Fire Insurance Company was held yesterday, at two o'clock, at the offices of the Company, corner of Pitt and Hunter streets…
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THE New York Herald gives the following details of this catastrophe:- The news which we have received from Halifax by telegraph has put an end to all further conjecture in…
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