SYDNEY.
September 22. The whole of the Garden Palace was completely destroyed this morning within an hour of tbe commencement of the fire. A few portions of the brick work are all that now remain standing. There was no insurance upon the building, or upon tbe contents, except the art collection and the reflector. The lobb is incalculable, on account of the great destruction of Government documents, many of which cannot be replaced. All the papers relating to the last census, and plain and records of railway surveys, perished in the flames, and the collection, in the Technological Museum will be difficult to replace. The flames spread with gr.at rapidity, and rose to an immense height, being visible for miles round. The origin of the fire is entirely unknown, but it is hiuted that it is due to incendiarism. Tbe art collection in the Garden Palace was insured for £3000. This, as already stated was the only insurance on the building or its contents.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3499, 23 September 1882, Page 3
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164SYDNEY. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3499, 23 September 1882, Page 3
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