DESTRUCTION OF THE GARDEN PALACE.
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. [eeutee’s telegrams.] Eeceived September 22nd, 11.30 a.m. SYDNEY, September 22, 9 a.m. About five o’clock tbia morning a fire broke out, and is still raging, in tbe Garden Palace, situated in the Inner Domain, the building in which the New South Wales International Exhibition of 1879 was held. The sight of the burning building is most grand, and thousands of people are now on the spot. All efforts to save the Palace has been without avail, and nothing can prevent its complete destruction. The offices of occupation in the building are a branch of the Lands Department, the Census Offices, and the Harbor Offices, and it is feared that there will he a serious loss of official documents and other Government property in consequence. ADDITIONAL PAETIOTJLARS. Received September 22nd, 1.30 p.m. SYDNEY, September 22, 11 a.m.. All the archives of the Mining Department, the Census Office, and the Linnean Society, together with the national collection of minerals in the Technological Museum, have been destroyed. It is estimated that the loss in all amounts to half a million sterling. The dome of the building fell with a crash twenty minutes after the fire broke out. The destruction is complete.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2640, 22 September 1882, Page 3
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