Volunteer Fire Brigade
Empire · Thursday 3 January 1861 · page 5
THE Number Two Company of the Sydney Volunteer Fire Brigade celebrated Their fifth anniversary yostarday by an excursion to Watson's Bay, and a dinner at Billing's Hotel. The ateamer Here'd was ohartered far…
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Empire · Wednesday 9 January 1861 · page 4
The crew of the barque Miisstionary bound to Sandridge with timber, have arrived in Laune[?], reporting the total a deatrnetion of that vessel by fire. The fire broke out under the cabin deck at one o'olook on the…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 January 1861 · page 2
A telegram reached Sydney yesterday morning that a great conflagration had occurred in Ballaarratt by which fifty-five houses and five hotels, including the Montezuma and C harlie Napier, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE. Friday, 8 p.m. Great Fire at Ballarat
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1861 · page 7
The Montezuma Theatre, Charley Napler Hotel, and sixty houses destroyed by fire. The resolutions in favour of payment of members are under consideration in Committee in the Assembly…
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Empire · Thursday 17 January 1861 · page 8
THE Ballarat Star of January 11th says:— Altogether, very nearly 00 houses have been levelled with the around, many of which were large stores, extensively fitted up, and crammed with goods. At the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1861 · page 4
The following particulars appear in the telegraphic despatches of the Times, of 27th November:— "Plymouth, Tuesday. "The Limerick Company's steamship Mangerton, Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE. Friday, Great Fire at Ballarat
Sydney Mail · Saturday 19 January 1861 · page 4
The Montezuma Theatre, Charley Napier Hotel, and sixty houses destroyed by fire. The resolutions in favour of payment of members are under consideration in Committee in the Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ship on Fire at Sra. ' Plymouth, Tuesday, Novermber 27
Empire · Tuesday 22 January 1861 · page 3
THE Limerick. Company's stoamiship Mangerton, Onpt. Murgon, which lost Traloo at one 0'clook on Saturday morning, sa a ship on fire nt six in the ovening, 50 milos south-cost of Cape Clour. Boro down, and when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire at Maitland. [From a Correspondent.]
Empire · Wednesday 23 January 1861 · page 3
I SEND you a short acccount of a most dreadful fire that occured in High-street. West Mai[?]land, opposite woolf and Gorricks, at one o'clock on Sunday morning, and continued its ravages until daylight the origin of which…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1861 · page 5
ON Sunday morning, about half-past twelve a.m., a disastrous fire broke out in Mr. Fitch's store, Highstreet, West Maitland, the true origin of which is at present enveloped in mystery. Three reports are…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1861 · page 4
THE, fire, which early yesterday morning alarmed the city and suburbs by the extent and vividness of the glare which lit the sky to the westward, proved to be on the premises of Mr. Michael Boyleon, lessee of the Plough Inu, and extensive…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 January 1861 · page 1
THE fire which early on Thursday morning alarmed the city [?] by the extent and [?] of the [?] which [?] the sky to the [?] proved so be on the previous of Mr. [?]…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 January 1861 · page 3
On Sunday morning, about half-past twelve a. m., a disastrous fire broke out in Mr. Fitch's store, High-street, West Maitland, the true origin of which is at present enveloped in mystery. There reports are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Fire in West Maitland. to the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Monday 28 January 1861 · page 5
SIR,—Being one among the first at the lateo fire, from the observations I thou made, I am desirous of offering a suggestion or two through, your widely circulated paper, with the view of bringing those Suggestions before the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FIRE. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 February 1861 · page 3
SIR,—Will you allow me through the medium of your valuable journal, to sall the attention of the public to a circumstance which, if willingly done, seems to be a most scif[?] transaction. This evening, at five minutes past seven, the fire bell in…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1861 · page 3
THE indisputable success of the experiment recently made of the application of steam instead of water to the extinguishing of fire, as made in the case of the burning of the candle manufactory at the Barriere…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 April 1861 · page 5
AT about three o'clock yesterday morning an alarming fire broke out in a shop in King-street, occupied by Mr. Lind, tobacconist, &c., two doors west of Mr. Palmer's, Liverpool Arms. The fire was first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Fire. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 April 1861 · page 5
SIR,—In all probability the cause of the disastrous fire in King-street, on Sunday morning, was either matches, vestas, or some such combustible, and I cannot but think that there is an extreme want of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Company. (From the Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor, February 16.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 April 1861 · page 3
THE twenty-fifth annual general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at the offices, 1, Dale-street, Liverpool, on Thursday, the 14th instant—George Grant, Esq., chairman of the Board of Directors, presiding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Fire in King-street. Corner's Inquiry
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 April 1861 · page 2
An enquiry into the origin of the fire which broke out in the shop of Mr Lind, tobacconist, of King-street, on the morning of Sunday, April 21st, was commenced at the coroner's office, at eleven o'clock, yesterday morning. This…
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