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

Floods & storms, 1866

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

Gales, Inundations, and Great Snowstorm

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 March 1866 · page 2

SELDOM has the commencement of a new year been more noted by a dismal record of wrecks on our coasts, and of founderings in the deep seas, than that of the present year…

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Heavy Storms and Wrecks

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 April 1866 · page 4

On the evening of February 4th a violent thunderstorm passed over Birmingham. During the day the wind had been blowing a heavy gale, and there were slight…

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Incidents of the Late Gale

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 18 July 1866 · page 2

WE take the following from Friday's Empire:-- The terrible gale which commenced on Wednesday, and which continued without intermission the whole of yesterday, prepared the public to some…

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Mr. Gale's Non Explosive Gunpowder

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 3 October 1866 · page 4

AN experiment which was made on Wednesday in a martello tower near Rye, with five tons of gunpowder rendered non-explosive by the process proposed by Mr. Gale, will probably have…

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