The Academy of Music appears predestined to ill-luck in the matter of fires. It is almost exactly a year since a disastrous conflagration occurred in this building, leaving ...
Article : 534 wordsMajor-General Scratchley, who is proceeding to New Guinea to assume the high commissionership of the protectorate formed over a portion of that island by the British Government, was a ...
Article : 1,083 wordsThe Governor has received from Earl Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, the following despatch relative to the establishment of the protectorate over the south-east coast of ...
Article : 1,868 wordsThe professor of music chosen for your University is Mr. Joshua Ives, Mus. Bac. of Queen's College, Cambridge. Dr. Stainer and Professor McFarren, who assisted Sir A. ...
Article : 4,421 wordsMr. F. H. Pollock, the lessee of the Academy, said I left the Academy at about ten minutes to 11 on Friday night at the close of the performance, and did not return until ...
Article : 186 words(of Solomon & Castle, proprietors of the Academy of Music), who was not informed of the fire until it was all over, says:—We are insured for about £5,400, but it is scarcely ...
Article : 71 words(who sleeps in the adjoining premises of Messrs. Castle, McLean, & Co., clothiers and linendrapers) says—About a quarter to 5 [?] was awakened by the crackling of the fire, and ...
Article : 195 words(whose cafe-restaurant is beneath the north[?] eastern part of the theatre) said—My place is deluged with water from the scene of the fire above. It comes through the ceiling as ...
Article : 107 wordsWhich has just undergone [?]such a fiery ordeal was designed by Messrs. Henderson and Marryat. The theatrical portion contained seating accommodation for an audience of ...
Article : 557 wordsGeorge Bennett, employed as gasman at the Academy, said—I left the premises at about 11.20 on Friday night, after carefully extinguishing the lights and turning the gas off [?] ...
Article : 300 wordsA comparative statement of the New South Wales revenue receipts for the year 1883-1884 has been prepared. The total increase for the past year amounts to £866,285 10s. 6d., and ...
Article : 253 words(of the Globe Hotel, Rundle-street) states:— I heard a cry of fire in the street about a quarter to 5. I went outside at once in company with some friends, and saw smoke ...
Article : 212 wordsThe revenue returns for the quarter and half-year ending December 31 have been published. The total revenue for the quarter was £588,016, and for the half-year £1,385,785, ...
Article : 205 wordsThe present series of public Tool auctions progress with spirit. There is still a good attendance of buyers: the biddings are keen, but prices, as a rule, are without material change. The present series will ...
Article : 1,025 words(Mr. W. Baker), who resides at the Plough and Harrow Hotel, in Rundle-street, says that when he was called to the fire there was only some twenty people about, and the flames ...
Article : 60 wordsThe fire was first seen by Lance-corporal Mee, who was in charge of the Rundle-street beat from 10 o'clock on Friday night until 6 o'clock on Saturday morning. The ...
Article : 315 wordsAt the Academy of Music took place on June 2[?] 1879, when the Baker & Farron Company appeared in "Conrad and Lizette." From that date up to the time of the fire on January ...
Article : 176 wordsThe brig Annabel, bound from Sydney to Kohara with a load of timber, was totally wrecked on a shoal at South Spit, Kaipara. Captain McDonald and his crew were safely ...
Article : 89 wordsSir—For many months past the columns of the press and the public mind have alike been filled with groans and lamentations over the badness of the times, over scarcity of employment, ...
Article : 427 wordsThe weather yesterday was most oppressive, but towards evening a sudden change set in with a storm of dust, followed by heavy but short showers of rain, which will again delay ...
Article : 83 wordsbilliard saloon, which occupies the southern end of the ground-floor of the Academy, has escaped with apparently very slight damage. The firemen, with commendable forethought, ...
Article : 87 wordsA representative meeting was held here on Saturday evening to consider the advisability of testing a case against the Government for repudiating the payment of vermin certificates ...
Article : 150 wordsIt appears that the fire broke out a little before 5 o'clock, and information was received at the various fire-reel stations at about five minutes to 5 o'clock. No. 1 reel, which has ...
Article : 384 wordsThe Melbourne Dramatic Company played a number of popular dramas at the Academy for about a month before Christmas, and it was then decided by the management, ...
Article : 702 wordsMr. Richard Rodda, storekeeper, his son, 10. years of age, Mr. William Doughty, laborer, Mr. David Craig, lighthouse-keeper, and a stranger, whose name is supposed to be ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Mon 5 Jan 1885, Page 6
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