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64 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4
WE have to record the most disastrous event which has yet befallen our populous town. An extensive configuration 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 12 →On Saturday a dispatch from the British Consulat Coquimbo was received by the Secretary of the Board of Trade announcing the destruction by fire of the English barque Usk, while on a voyage from Swansea to Huasco…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A GREAT fire broke out in Brisbane at 3 o'clock, this morning, which burned down the half of Queen's street. It extended three hundred jards in length, from one end of the street to the other, and the e[?]timated loss is about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →REPORT of the Directors of the Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Company to the twenty-eighth annual general meeting of the proprietors, to be the held pursuant to the provisions of the deed of settlement, on the 25th day of February, 1864, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT an early hour last Monday morning, Brisbane was roused by the dreadful cla[?]gour of the fire alarnm bell. The worst apprehensions that could have possessed the mind of the newly-awakened hearer, whose sympathies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT an early hour last Monday morning Brisbane was roused by the dreadful clangour of the fire al[?] bell. From the middle of the city dense volumes of smoke rose and obscured the sky, while a lurid glow overspread all…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN the House of Commons, on the 12th February, Sir W. Fraser rose to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Lord Chamberlain would grant licenses to theatres in which no adequate provision was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT an early hour last Monday morning Brisbane was roused by the dreadful clangour of the fire alarum bell. From the middle of the city dense volumes of smoke rose and obscured the sky, while a lurid glow overspread all…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →ARE Our public buildings safe? The dramatic aspect of the event of Santiago puts the idea of a theatre foremost in our minds; and we are not surprised that the Lord Chamberlain has taken the question up. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I REMEMBER watching one winter morning a little sparrow hopping about in a hedge-row. The day was bitterly cold, full of that intense quiet that belongs only to winter mornings and summer evenings…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE subjoined letter has been received from an officer who was on board the Danish cupola ship the Rolf Krake, during the engagement with the Prussian batteries at Egernsund. The Rolf Krake was built by Napier, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Never whille I live, and my senses remain, can I forget my next awakening. Did I still dream or was it indeed a reality? The whole ship seemed shattered into fragments—I was hurled from my bed, and I stood in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Sydney. Sir,—On behalf of the secretaries, managers, and agents of the various Insurance Companies, carrying on business in Sydney, I beg respectfully to call your attention to the following facts,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. John Alexander Scott, the chief officer of the steamer Yeua Tze Fee, has handed to us for publication the following particular[?] of the loss of the barque Jane E. Williams, by fire, on the the 6th of February last. It will be seen that Mr. Scott and three seamen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have all heard of the scamp of antiquity who burned the Temple of the chaste Diana,—of the more modern maniac who fired York Minster, and of the mythical aqueous incendiary who has for ages threatened "to set…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Forbes correspondent of the O ange Gua dian says, Forbes was the scene of an extensive fire which broke out at about two o'clock on Friday morning, and consomed all the buildings between Mr. Gilber[?] late sale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Seeing by your issue of the 4th instant that the No. 2 Fire Company are making strong efforts to procure one of these powerful fire-engines (from Bo[?]on and Shand, London), I would strongly protest against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Most people, even many intelligent reformers, have the idea that to sleep1 in a cold room is good—essential to health. It. is an errar. It is better to have an open fire in your bed-room…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE third half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held yesterday, at noon—Mr. J. L. Monteflore in the chair. The Manager read tho following Report and Balance-…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I HAVE vivid recollections of the thrilling cry of fire, on one, occasion, arousing me from my midnight slumbers, the lurid glare which illumined my chamber window, at the same time alar[?]ing my bewildered…
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