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86 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 5
AN adjourned meeting of gentlemen connected with the insurance offices and with the mercantile and shipping mtercsts of the port of Sydney was held yesterday, at the Exchange, for the purpose of deliberating on the best means of prcvcntuig accidental or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after sunset on Saturday evening, a fear[?] confiagration broke out at C[?]posthorne Hall, and rage[?] all night with such fury that long before sunrise yesterday morning the princely mansion was entirely gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AN adjourned meeting of gentlemen connected with the insurance offices and with the mercantile and slapping interests of the port of Sydney was held on Monday, at the Exchange, for the purpose of deliberating on the best means of preventing accidental or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About half-part two o'clock this morning the town was once more alarmed by the loud ringing of the fire-bells, and an immense glare of light was seen in the direction of Specimen Hill. The streets were quickly filled with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly before two o'clook yestereay afternoon, the fire-bell rung out an alarm, and it was immediately made known that flames were issuing from between the roof of Mr. Hornby's inn, the Oporto Wine Vaults,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The most destructive conflagration that ever occurred in this district, visited Tarrawingee on Friday morning last. For the last few days bush fires have been burning in all directions around us; those on the ranges, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Edington Cottage, situated on the banks of the South Creek, the property of Mr. Richard Edwards, and occupied by Mrs, Betts, was this morning burned to the ground. An inquiry into the cause was held…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Edington Cottage, situated on the banks of the South Creek, the property of Mr. Richard Edward's, and occupied by Mrs. Betts, was this morning burned to the ground. An inquiry into the cause was held…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Edington Cottage, situated on the banks of the South Creek, the property of Mr. Richard Edwards, and occupied by Mrs. Betts, was this morning burned to the ground. An inquiry into the cause was held…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Thursday morning, a dense smoke was seen to arise from the Bluff Harbour. About ten p.m. Mr. Thompson (of the firm of Thompson and Crispe, for whom the Ocean Chief and brought so large a cargo of sheep), accompanied by Captain Howell, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN Monday's Star we stated some particulars respecting the bush-fire at Bullarook, that destroyed the mills of Messrs. Graves and Fraser. We now learn that the mill was insured in the Melbourne Fire and Life…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YESTERDAY morning, between the hours of five and six o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out in the public-house belonging to Mr. H. Bailey, No. 11, John-street, Horselydown, and to have extended into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Maitland Circuit Court, on Tuesday, Charles Ross, William Mackie, and John M'Mchon, alias John M'Manns, were indicted for having, at the chain of Ponds, on the evening of the 27th October, 1861, being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LAST week we reported that the New York merchant ship Lady Franklyn was on fire in Plymouth Sound; we have new to record the same thing of the Eliphant Greely, of Portland, Maine, at Brixham. The Eliphant is a ship of 1000 tons, and owing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CIVILIANS are continually surprised at reading that in every battle which has [?] contested or long continued, so small a number of combatants have been killed or disabled. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A LETTER from Antworp, dated December 3, says:— There was a fearful conflagration at the Napoleon Docks last night, causing a large loss of life and property. The fire commenced at about half-past 5 o'clock at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DOING guard duty on one of these clear frosty nights, is what I call a 'big thing.' Standing before a huge fire, whose glimmering rays shoot into the dense pine forest which surround you, as if they,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The argument on this motion having been partly heard, Sir W. Manning, Q C[?] showed cause against the rule for a new trial. Mr. Fa[?] followed upon the same side. The case occupied the whole day, and did not conclude…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE twenty-sixth annual general meeting of the proprietors was held, pursuant to the provisions of the deed of settlement, on the 13th day of February, 1862, in the Public Sales Room, Liverpool and London Chambers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOUGH homeward bound, as bright a look out as ever was kept, in the hopes that another prize might be taken, to make amends for the one carried off by the privateer. When off the coast…
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