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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1857

12 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

Goulburn School of Arts. Mr. Murray's Lecture "On Thunder Storms."

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1857 · page 6

THE Lecturer after a few preliminary observations said that thunderstorms in this country present the grandest and most sublime spectacles that can be witnessed in connection with…

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Great Storm in Dublin

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1857 · page 2

THE Freeman states that on Friday night and Saturday morning, March 20th and 21st, Dublin was visited by a storm, which for violence and duration…

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The Flood in the Hunter District

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1857 · page 6

THE river continues to fall steadily, but scarcely so fast as at first appeared. Last evening it had fallen to about nine or ten feet above high water mark…

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Effects of the Storm

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1857 · page 3

THE rain which set in on Monday morning continued to fill throughout the day, night, and yesterday up to 5 o'clock in the evening, when there was…

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Colonial Intelligence. the Easterly Gale. Wrecks in Port. Loss of the Barque Fame, Dismasting of the Barque Indus, and Other Casualities

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1857 · page 3

DURING the whole of Monday and yesterday this port was visited by one of the severest easterly gales remembered for some years past, accompanied…

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Flood at the Hawkesbury

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1857 · page 3

IT is with great regret we have to announce the unpleasing intelligence that the Hawkesbury has again overflowed its banks, and there is every appearance…

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A Second Disastrous Flood in the Hunter. Maitland, Wednesday, July 29

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1857 · page 3

SCARCELY have we recovered from the effects of the first flood, already fully reported, when a second has visited us, threatening still more disastrous…

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Serious Flood in the Neighbourhood of Goulburn

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 22 August 1857 · page 4

HIGHER floods have, within the last two days, been experienced in Goulburn than has been the case since the year succeeding the great flood at Gundagai. On Wednesday last the…

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The Hunter Flood

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 5 September 1857 · page 3

AFTER the usual lapse of a few weeks, the inhabitants of the Hunter River district have again been visited by a flood, which appears to have been…

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Flooded Maitland

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 5 September 1857 · page 3

That the people of Maitland and the neighbourhood must in some way bestir themselves to avoid in future the tremendous losses, and the awful…

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Disastrous Floods.--loss of Life

The Yass Courier · Sunday 6 September 1857 · page 2

MAITLAND.--The inhabitants of the Hunter River District have again been visited with a flood. The rain commenced on Wednesday, the 19th, and continued during Thursday and…

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The Late Storm

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1857 · page 2

The Sydney papers, received last night, contained reports of inquests on two bodies, the deaths being occasioned by the late storm. Eliza Croft, aged…

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