The Windsor Fire Relief Fund
A MEETING was held at the Masonic Hall, Yorkstreet, yesterday afternoon, to consider the propriety, of raising a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the recent disastrous fire at Windsor…
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The Late Fire at Windsor.—public Meeting
A PUBLIC meeting convened by advertisement, was held in the Mas[?]c Hall, York-street, yesterday, to consider the propriety of raising a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the recent disastrons fire at Windsor. The chair…
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The Adelaide Observer contains the following appropriate remarks on the above subject:— The numerous fires reported in another column as having occurred in various parts of the colony during the few hot…
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DECEMBER 23rd will long be remembered by the people of the metropolitan district, and be marked with a black letter by a great number of persons. Tuesday night, the weather was…
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WINDSOR.—On the 23rd a fire that proved most destructive to buildings and other property broke out at Windsor. There were various reports of the origin of the fire; but that which seemed most probable was that a spark from…
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A LARGE and influential meeting, having for its object the raising of funds for the sufferers by the late disastrous fire at Windsor, was held in the Masonic Hall, Sydney, on Thursday…
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Yesterday was one of those frightful days that it was almost a matter of impossibility to traverse the streets in safety, owing to the storm of wind which was blowing, causing clouds of dust to [?]rise, making everything…
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THE following further particulars of the late destructive fire came to hand after the publication of our last issue:— As Fitzgerald-street was between the Barraba…
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On Tuesday, October 17, a fire broke in the cotton mills of Messrs. Abraham Haigh and Son, at Over, in Cheshire, about eight miles from Norwich, which resulted, in course of an hour and a h[?]lf, in…
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THE Newcastle Pilot reports that on Saturday evening, between 5 and 6 o'clock, a fire was observed by the residents in the immediate neighbourhood of the Parading Ground…
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A most distressing calamity occurred to the emigrant ship Cospatrick which left London on the 14th September, bound for Auckland, under the command of Captain Elmslie, and having…
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Between 1 and 2 o'clock his morning, the premises of Mr. Walter John Pashley, general dealer, at No. 117, Lower George—street, were destroyed by fire. Constable Robbins reports that he passed the…
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SIR,—The recently mournful and distressing intelligence of the lose of so many hundreds of lives has brought to mind the late invention (by Mr. Read, of the Supreme Court Office) of an apparatus for immediately discovering…
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ON Saturday evening between 5 and 6 o'clock (we learn from the Newcastle Pilot), a fire was observed by the residents in the immediate neighbourhood of the Parading Ground, at the dwelling-house-of…
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SIR,—There seems a great want of "due diligence" on the part of these who have undertaken the task (a very wortby one) of seeking assistance for the poorer portion of these who have suffered from this disastrous visitation, in…
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SIR,—The late fire at Windsor, which has led to such calamitous results, should, I think, operate as a warning to those who neglect to embrace the privileges held out by fire insurance companies. The cost for obtaining a policy…
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An alarm of the was raised at 10 o'clock last night at the establishment of Mr. A. Wright, an ineer and type founder, George-street north, which seems to have had its brigin in a very simple manner. The…
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A PUBLIC meeting was held in the hall of the School of Arts Windsor, on the 5th instant, to promote the erection of the Wesleyan church and pa[?]age destroyed by the calamitous fire of the 23rd of December last. The chair was…
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Shortly before three o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a store at No.l4, Glebe Road, at the rear of premises originally built and oocupied by Dr. Fowler, as a private residence. (The store was tenanted…
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