Fearful Gale at Newcastle and Loss of Life
The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 12 May 1869 · page 3
SUNDAY, 6 p.m.—A heavy gale from S.E. set in last night, and blew very hard, with intervals of heavy rain, which still continues. The sea rose very rapidly, an broke with great violence across the…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 12 May 1869 · page 3
IT is with extreme regret that I have to record we are in imminent danger of a great and destructive flood. Since Tuesday last the Weather has been unsettled, and on Thursday and Friday it rained…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 12 May 1869 · page 3
The Nepean like the other tributaries of the Hawkesbury, was of course also flooded yesterday in proportion with the main stream. At Camden, that park known as the Cowpasture River rose as high…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 14 May 1869 · page 4
Sunday, 6 p.m.-- A heavy gale from S.E. set in. last night, and blew very hard, with intervals of heavy rain, which still continues. The sea rose very rapidly, and broke with great violence…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 14 May 1869 · page 4
Leaving his colleagues to proceed northward by the Windsor and Richmond line into the Hawkesbury district, Mr J. F. Josephson, the Solicitor-General, went on, with Mr Whitton and other…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 14 May 1869 · page 4
AT half-past eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, a telegram was received by the Hon. the Minister for Works from Mr Thomas, the Engineer for Existing Lines, to the following effect-- "I…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 14 May 1869 · page 4
The Nepean, like the other tributaries of the Hawkesbury, was of course also flooded yesterday in proportion with the main stream. At Camden, that part known as the Cowpasture River rose…
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The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 15 May 1869 · page 2
A HEAVY gale from S.E. set in last So[?] night, at 6 p.m. and blew very hard, with [?] of heavy rain, which still continues. [?] sea rose very rapidly, and broke with [?]…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 19 May 1869 · page 4
Heavy gales occurred on March 19 and 20, which were attended with disastrous results on some parts of the English coast. At Hoyle, in Cornwall, the National…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 June 1869 · page 2
The Mexican city, Alamos, Sonora, has been destroyed by a flood. On the 15th December wind and rain storm set in, lasting until the 18th. It seemed as if the very…
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