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

Floods & storms, 1868

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

Another Flood Storm

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 3

We trust this season is not destined to become memorable for flood storms; but It has given no one during the last two days. At the time of writing the (Monday morning) it does not appear likely that…

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Heavy Gale at Newcastle

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 3

During the past few days we have experienced one of the heaviest gales that has yet visited this coast; but fortunately on this occasion we have not the usual concomitants in the shape of shipwreck and…

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Flood at Windsor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 3

February 16th, 8 p.m.—Scarcely a day has passed during the last three weeks without rain, and although this has done an incalculable amount of good in reviving vegetation and making the land…

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Floods and Wrecks at Canterbury, New Zealand

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 8

BY the barques Camille, and Anne, which arrived in port yesterday, from New Zealand, the former from Auckland, the latter from Bluff Harbour, we are put in…

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Australian Dewdrops. the Storm-cloud

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 30 May 1868 · page 2

THUNDER is cradled in thy breast Of mighty cloud, of iron form: Upon thy brow a crown is press'd, Stern monarch of the wind and storm…

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Great Storm in England

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1868 · page 7

The first thunderstorm of the reason which has visited London occurred on Friday, and was a very severe one. Between seven and nine o'clock in the…

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Fearfut, Storm on the Continent

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1868 · page 7

A storm of some severity seems to have visited many places on the continent during the last few days and to have caused much damage. Near Cologne, the circle of Sieg,…

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Severe Thunderstorm

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 4

ABOUT noon on Friday, May 29th, a violent thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid and continuous flashes of lightning, hail, and rain, burst over the metropolis and the…

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