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165 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 9
THERE were trials pressing more weightily on the Woodroffes than the sudden deprivation of property and home, and the fall from affluence to poverty;--trials even more heart-breaking than the substitution…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE annual pic-nic of the No. 2 Company Volunteer Fire Brigade, which came off yesterday, proved one of the most auspicious of these celebrations, and passed off in a highly enjoyable manner. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOON after the opening of the hall, and while in its early struggles it made the slow, steady advance which foreshadowed its future success, a ray from a brightness, long passed away, fell for a moment upon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE time-honoured custom, of which Sir Homphray was witness, though treated as a lark by the lenient magistrate, might hate been looked on as something more, one is apt to suspect, had his worship been in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Will you allow me, through the medium of your paper, to call the public attention to the monstrous injustice that respectable people are subjected to through the police being allowed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The obtrusion of private wrongs upon the public by means of the newspaper press is generally neither edifying nor desirable. Occasionally, however, the vitim of unfortunate circumstances is so situated that no other course…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ABOUT eight months after the death of Sir Homphray, there stood in the old library where he died Richard Cecil, the inheritor of his estates ; and with him, taken permanently into his service, Tom Rivers--the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SHORTLY after five o'clock on Saturday evening, the fire-bell having been rung, the Volunteer fire brigade quickly turned out, and proceeded rapidly to Aiken's hay and corn store in Bridge-street, where the fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT about half-past 2 this morning the usual quiet of the town was broken by the bells of the various ships in harbour ringing in quick succession the terrible alarm of fire. The City of Auckland, now lying alongside the outer T of the Queen-street wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHORTLY after five o'clock on Saturday evening, the fire-bell baying been rung, the Volunteer fire brigade quickly turned out, and proceeded rapidly to Aiken's hay and corn store in Bridge-street, where the fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT about half-past 2 this morning the usual quiet of the town was broken by the bells of the various ships in harbour ringing in quick succession the terrible alarm of fire. The City of Auckland, now lying alongside the outer T of the Queen-street wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I HAVE to record the most dire calamity that ever happened in this town, namely, the total destruction by fire of Cook's Royal Hotel, in the flames of which Mr. Marshall, hotelkeeper, of Surat, perished. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN consequence of the somewhat unsatisfactory result of the trial on Tuesday last, at Prince Alfred Park, of the new patent equilibrium steam fire-engine, imported by Mr. Alderman Bown, and purchased by the insurance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I HAVE to record the most dire calamity that ever happened in this town, namely, the total destruction by fire of Cook's Royal Hotel, in the flames of which Mr. Marshall, hotelkeeper, of Surat, perished. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AFTER the conclusion of the inquest on the body of Gordon another inquest was held on the fire which resulted in his death. We sujoin the evidence taken:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday, the 31st ultimo, an inquest on the body of Henry Gordon, who perished in the late fire at Urana, was held at the Royal Hotel in that township by the coroner for the district, Mr Armstrong,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INQUEST ON THE BOOT OF HENRY GORDON. On Tuesday, the 31st ultimo, an inquest on the body of Henry Gordon, who perished in the late fire at Urana, was, held at the Royal Hotel in that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From the Auckland papers received last night by the John Penn, it appears that L15,000 worth of property was destroyed by the burning of the fine ship City of Auckland. The Weekly Herald says:—From an early…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Tuesday week a new steam fire engine by Messrs. Shand, Mason and Co., of London, imported by Mr. Alderman Bown especially for the Insurance Fire Brigade, was tried at Cook's River, in the presence of a…
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