The Late Fire in King-street. the Inquest
Empire · Thursday 7 August 1862 · page 5
THE inquest for the discovery of the origin of the recent fire, which occurred on Sunday morning, causing the entire dertruction of the premises occupied by Messrs. J. and E. Row, as wholesale druggists, in Bank-court, off…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 9 August 1862 · page 1
SHORTLY after six o'clock on Sunday morning dense volumes of smoke were observed issuing from the upper portion of a building in Bank Court, off King-street, occupied as a wholesale drug store by Messrs. John and Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Law and Police. Monday,—sittings for the Trial of Causes, Jury Court, Before Mr. Justice Wise and a special jury of twelve, FITCH V. the Liverpool and London Fire and Life Assurance Company
Sydney Mail · Saturday 9 August 1862 · page 6
This was an action upon a policy of insurance to recover £1600—being the full amount inured for—on account of the destruction by fire of various goods in a general store at West Maitland. The cass had been twice tried, and on…
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Empire · Tuesday 12 August 1862 · page 8
SIR,—It is to he regretted that before publishing the crtiole in your paper of this date on the subject of this caction, you did not take the trouble to ascertain what was really the conduct of this company towards Mr…
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Empire · Tuesday 12 August 1862 · page 8
SIR,—Your correspondent "H.," has, in your issue of 5th instant, somewhat anticipated me with referenoe to a few remarks I wish to maka on tbe above extraordinary case —one, I venture almost to assert, that has no…
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Empire · Wednesday 13 August 1862 · page 8
SIR,—This case was brought before a Jury a second time on Monday the 4th instant, on theissun, Wheather the Plaintiff did within fifteen days after the fire deliver as accurate and partim ar an account of his loss [?]…
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Empire · Wednesday 13 August 1862 · page 8
SIR,—It if to be regretted that before publishing the article in your paper of this date, on the subject of this action, you did not take, the trouble to ascertain what was really the constant of this company…
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Empire · Thursday 14 August 1862 · page 2
SIR,—This case was brought before a Jury a second time on Monday the 4th instant, on the issue, Whether the Plaintiff did within fifteen days after the fire deliver as accurate and particular an account of his loss or…
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Empire · Thursday 14 August 1862 · page 2
SIR,—It is to be regretted that before publishing the article in your paper of this date on the subject of this action, you did not take the trouble to ascertain what was really the conduct of this company…
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Empire · Saturday 16 August 1862 · page 2
SIR,—Having read the lengthy letter of Mr. A. S. Lesthes, Resident Secretary to the above Company, in reference to the above matter, as published in your issue of Wednesday last, and feeling that,…
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Empire · Saturday 16 August 1862 · page 2
SIR,—Since the publication of my letter on the subject of this action, it has been suggested to me that it would be fairer to the jury, and more satisfactory if the public were permitted to read the evidence…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 August 1862 · page 5
Notice is hereby given that application is being made to Parliament, in the present session, for leave to bring in a bill to amend and enlarge the powers and provisions of the Acts now in force for the better protection of property in the borough of Liverpool…
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Empire · Tuesday 19 August 1862 · page 3
TELEGRAMS announce a terrible fire at St. Petersburg. Large warehouses and shops, covering several acres, have been destroyed, including Apraxino, and [?]tebukine markets, and the Minister of the Interior's mansion. The direction…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 August 1862 · page 10
SHORTLY after 6.m. on Sunday, 3rd August, dense volumes of smoke were observed issuing from the upper portion of a building in Bank-court, off Kingstreet, occupied as a wholesale drug store by Messrs…
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Empire · Wednesday 27 August 1862 · page 3
A SERIOUS fire occurred lately at the Hotel de Vi[?]le, Borde[?]x. Nearly the whole of the archives, were destroyed, a lose which can never be supplied. The archives contained a precise history of, Gaienne during several…
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Empire · Wednesday 27 August 1862 · page 3
A DISTRUCTIVE fire broke out on the premises of the Rockhampton Bulletin Great Q[?]ay-street, on Thursday night last, the 14th instant, about midnight or very shortly afterwards, consuming everything before it; not…
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Empire · Thursday 28 August 1862 · page 5
[?]T NIGHT between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, a mos alaming and destructive fire broke out on the premises occupied by Mr. Foster, the confectioner, in George-street, nearly oppcsite David Jones and Co's,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 August 1862 · page 5
FOLLOWING swiftly upon the calamity recently recorded in our columns, we have now to chronicle the occurrence of another destructive fire, which broke out last evening shortly after nine o'clock, in George-street, in the immediate…
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Empire · Friday 29 August 1862 · page 4
THE calamitous fire that occurred on Wednesday night, and reported in our issue of yesterday, destroyed altogether a very large amount of property. It is distressing to see the destruction of property, caused not by…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 August 1862 · page 8
THE damage caused by the fire which broke out in George-street on Wednesday night has been very extensive. Of the building occupied by Mr. Foster and Mr. Dalton, the walls only remain, and the adjoining house, known as the…
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