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The following interesting article is extracted from the Melbourne World:--The withdrawal of the Commercial Union Assurance Company from the Tariff Union presages the speedy dissolution of a compact…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The second edition of the Times of Saturday, July 15, contains a long telegram from its correspondent, dated from Alexandria at half-past 12 the same morning, which says:- "I have just returned from the town, having landed with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This morning Mr. Alderman Butcher introduced as a deputation to his Worship the Mayor, Mr. Superintendent-General Kelly and Superintendent Rainford, who waited upon him with a request that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The usual monthly meeting of the Metropolitan Associated Fire Brigades was held on Thursday night at the St. Leonards fire brigade station. The president, Mr. J. Swadling, occupied the chair, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire has taken place on board the Guion steamer Alaska, while conveying from New York to Liverpool the homeward San Francisco mails, which left Sydney on the 10th. inst. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out between 1 and 2 o'clock, on Sunday morning, on the premises occupied by Richard Noble, 234, Castloreagh-street. It seems that a lodger named Timothy Sullivan, while smoking in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire occurred last night upon the premises, of Messrs. Butler and Co., drapers, East Maitland. Lucidly, it was discovered and promptly subdued at an early stage. The damage done is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, September 14.—A fire has taken place on board the Guion steamer Alaska, while conveying from New York to Liverpool the homeward San Francisco mails, which left Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire has taken place on board the G[?] steamer Alaska, while conveying from New York to Liverpool the homeward San Francisco mails which left Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire has taken place on board the Guion steamer Alaska, while conveying from New York to Liverpool the homeward San Francisco mails, which left Sydney on 10th ultimo, by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner began an inquiry yesterday into the circumstances connected with the fire at Messrs. Cook Brothers' furniture warehouse, Ultimo, on the morning of the 31st August…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in a house occupied by Mrs Richardson, Stanley-street. The Sorry Hills Brigade was promptly on the spot, and with the assistance of the inmates soon succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some peculiar incidents are related. Portions of the galvanized iron roofing were carried high into the air by currents of wind, and to almost incredible distances away. One sheet of roofing, measuring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A gentlemen occupying a prominent position in political matters was an eye-witness of the fire, being on the spot almost immediately after the alarm was given, assures us that there can scarcely be a doubt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—In the report of the inquest on the late fire at Messrs. Cook Brothers' furnishing warehouse, Harris-street, Ultimo, which appears in this morning's Herald, a portion of the evidence of George Stone relates to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have this morning to record the most disastrous fire which has ever taken place in Sydney, and Which can be looked upon as nothing less than a national calamity. At 6 o'clock this morning, or a short time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A large number of red-hot cinders from the fire at the Garden Palace yesterday fell in the grounde adjoining the bouse of Mr. Louin Phillips, A member of the firm of Messrs. Moess Moss and Co., who resides in Orwell-street, Potts…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It never rains but it pours. Last night the brigades were called out three times. The first was to extinguish a fire that had broken out among a quantity of scrap paper beneath…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE give some additional particulars in reference to the fire at the Garden Palace, the destruction of which was fully described in our yesterday's issue…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some calcined "limbs" of the various images were picked up by officials in the gardens, together with the fragments of marble flower-stands, broken by the falling of the brickwork…
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