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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1859

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

Fire in Woolloomooloo Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 December 1859 · page 4

A FIRE broke out in a boat-shed on the eastside of Woolloomooloo Bay, about half-past three o'clock this morning. It raged with some fury for a short time, and from the lurid reflection cast over tho sky the impression was that some large building was being…

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Parliamentary Papers. the Fire Arms Regulation Act of 1852

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 December 1859 · page 9

[?] bill, consists of one section, enacts as follows:— 1. The Act of Council, sixteenth Victoria, number twenty[?] to regulate the carrying of fire arms and other offensive [?] which by the Act of Council, eighteenth Victoria,…

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The Proposed Law to Authorise Inquests on Fires. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 December 1859 · page 10

SIR,—For the lost four or five years public attention in his colony has been, through the medium of your coloumns, repeatedly called to the fact that in London, and various other parts of England, as well as in some of the…

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