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64 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4
THE [?]cond general meeting of the Company was held yesterday in the Hall of the Chamber of Commerce at 11 o'clock. There was a good attendance of shareholders. The chairman of the company, J.L.Montefiore,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE second general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday, in the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, at noon. Mr. J. L. Montsfiore in teh chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE second general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on the 13th instant, in the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, at noon. Mr. J. L. Montefiore in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR.—I think if there be any vitality in the Sydney Fire Brigade, they should be up and present Mr. Holt with a testimonial, for the cool presence of mind that he evinced a few evenings ago in the hal[?] of legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HUMAN life has been often thrown away from persons not taking the precaution to accustom their minds to dwell at times on the proper method of acting in emergencies. From want of this, many rush into the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—It appears to me the word "Fire" should be taken up from o e [?]nd of the colony to the other, in order that the people would be startled to action from the fatal leth[?]rgy of past years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT length, after repeated escapes, that should have served as the most potent warnings, Dunedin has been the scene of what may be truly termed a "great " fire; but which might have been kept within something like moderate limits had there been a proper…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BY way of Melbourne we have Otago papers to the 5th February. The Daily Times of the 3rd gives the following report of a disastrous conflagration at Dunedin:-…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Eclipse schooner, from Otago, brings two days' later papers. Underneath we give, from the Daily News of 4th and 5th instant; the latest particulars of the disastrous conflagration that broke out in Dunedin on the evening of the 2nd…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Eclipse schooner, from Otago, brings two days later papers. Underneath we give, from the Daily News of 4th and 6th instant, the latest particulars of the dis[?]strons conflagration that broke out in Dunedin on the evening of the 2nd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At length, after repeated escapee, that should have served as the most potent warnings, Dunedin has been the scene of what may be truly termed a "great" fire; but which might have been kept witnin something like moderate limits had there been a proper…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Wednesday morning, shortly before six o'clock, [?] covered that a back store on the premises of Messrs, Davis, Al[?] ander, and Co., the Australian Store, in Auburn-street, was [?] fire. The alarm was speedily given, and both engines [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A LARGE fire took place on the premises of Messrs. Davies, Alexander, and Co., at the rear of the Anstralian store, on Wednesday morning last, between five and six o'clock, which resulted in damage being done, it is stated,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The ship Ph[?]be Dunbar was discovered to be on fire between seven and eight o'clock this evening. She was lying alongside the new wharf awaiting a cargo of cattle. The fire brigade soon collected, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →March 8.—The most fertial and lamentable catastrophe that ever occurred at the port of Newcastle took place last night, in the total destruction, by fire, of the ship P[?] Danbar. She bad recently arrived from New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JUST prior to the departure of the City of Hobart from the Bluff intelligence was received of a most destructive fire having taken place as Invercargill, by which between fifteen and twenty thousand pounds' worth of property…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Saturday the inquest on the fire of the Phœbe Dunbar took place at the Prince of Wales Hotel, before the coroner, Dr. R. C. Knaggs and a jury of fifteen, composed principally of commercial and nautical men. The following is the evidence of three of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ms JOHN HUMPHREYS, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry, on Saturday at the London Hospital respecting the death by fire of Madame Marie Charles, otherwise Miss Mary Anne Thorne, aged 32 years, columbine at the Pavi[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have to record the most disastrous event which he yet befallen our populous town. An extensive conflagration has laid waste a large portion of one of our principal streets, and added to the destruction of property a lamentable loss…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →One of the largest tires that has ever our city occurred on Wednesday, the 9th instant. It broke out in a canal boat, lying at the foot of Christopher-street, about two o'clock in the…
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