AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1154, 22 September 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

BY electrio telegraph.—(copyright). (reuter’s telegrams.) Received Sept. 22, 0.45 a.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 21. The Bishops of New South Wales have decided to take the opinion of counsel with regard to the legality of the impending election of a Bishop to the vacant see of Sydney. Received 11.30 a.m. Sept. 22. Tho Garden Palace Destroyed by Fire. SYDNEY, This Day, 9 a.m. The Garden Palace situated in the Inner Domain, the building in which the New South Wales International Exhibition of 1870 was held, has been totally destroyed by fire. The conflagration broke out at five o’clock this morning, and is still raging. The sight of the burning building is most grand, and thousands of people are now on the spot. All efforts to save the Palace have been without avail, and nothing can prevent its complete destruction. The Offices of the Occupation Branch of the Lands Department, the Census Offices, and the Harbor Offices were in the building, and it is feared that there will be a serious loss of official documents and other Government property. This Day, Il a.m. All the archives of the Mining Department, the Census Office, and the Linmean Society, together with the national collection of minerals in the Technological Museum have been destroyed at the Garden Palace. The estimated 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.