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185 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 10
THE fire which destroyed, last week, the best part of one of the greatest commercial cities in the world is still the most engrossing topic of news. Telegraphic reports by the Atlantic submarine cable inform us of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE action of an unruly cow, and the capsize of a hand-lamp filled with a destructively inflammable oil, has convulsed the financial world. That slight causes produce great events is a proverb, which is also a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About half-past 11 o'olock this morning some person brought the news up to the enginess stationed at the Prince of Wales Theatre, that a fire had broken out at the Haymarket. The No. 2 engine of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FIRE, which has proved very destructive, occurred at about 3 o'clock this morning at Fitzgerald and Collins's carriage manufactory, in Castlereagh-street, near St. George's Presbyterian Church. We…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT half-past 3 this morning the Prince of Wales Theatre was discovered to be on fire. In a very short time the flames burst through the roof, showing that the building must…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LAST night, a fire which, has proved most destructive, broke out in the Prince of Wales Theatre, situate in Castlereaghrstreet, in this city. How the fire, originated is as yet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have to chronicle to-day the occurrence of one of the most extensive and destructive fires that ever took place in Sydney. It appears that at about half-past 3 o'clock this morning, some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About half-past 11 on Saturday morning some person brought the news up to the engines stationed at the Prince of Wales Theatre, that a fire had broken out at the [?]aymarket. The No. 2 engine of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after 1 o'olock to-day information was conveyed to the several fire-engine stations that a fire had broken out at Lyndburst College. The firemen, with their engines, hurried to the spot, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FIRE, which has proved very destructive, occurred at about 3 on Saturday morning at Fitzgerald and Collian's carriage manufactory, in Castlereagh-street, [?] St. Geor[?] Presbyterian Church. We…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are sorry to state that the injuries Henry Vaughan received, terminated in death at twenty minutes past 7 this morning. From the moment that he was received at the Infirmary till…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Christmas and New Year's festivities are scarcely over, when the city is overtaken by a calamity as sudden as it is severe—a calamity not merely confined to an enormous loss of property, but human life has also been sacrified…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have to chronicle the occurrence of one of the most extensive and destractive fires that ever took place in Sydney. It appears that at about halfpast 3 o'clock on Saturday morning, some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SCARCELY any modern structures merit the epithet of 'fire-proof.' It has been said on good authority that in the city of London only one building—the New Record office - really deserves to be called so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To the accounts of the fire already published, we have to add the melancholy intelligence that Henry Vaughan died yesterday from the injuries which he received through the falling of the southern wall of the Prince of Wales Opera…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday information was conveyed to the several fire-engine stations that a fire had broken out at Lyndhurst College. The firemen, with their engines, hurried to the spot, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are sorry to state that the injuries which Henry Vaughan received, terminated in death at twenty minutes past 7 yesterday morning. From the moment that he was received at the Infirmary till…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INQUEST ON THE BODIES OF COATES AND VAUGHAN AT 9 o'clock yesterday forenoon, the City Coroner opened, at his office in Hyde Park, an inquest touching the death of James Coates and Henry Vaughan, from injuries received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE adjourned inquiry as to the came or the death of James Coates and Henry Vaughan, was resumed this morning before the City [?] at the District Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SCARCELY any modern structures merit the epithet of 'fire-proof.' It has been said on good authority that in the city of London only one building—the New Record office-really deserves to be called so…
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