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

Floods & storms, 1869

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

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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Flood in the Nepean and Hawkesbury.—loss of Life. Windsor, Saturday, 4 p.m

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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Flood in the Camden District—two Persons Drowned

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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Fearful Gale at Newcastle

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 Floods at Penrith

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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Floods and Loss of Life. the Floods at Windsor. (From the S. M. Herald.)

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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Flood in the Camden District-- Two Persons Drowned

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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Fearful Gale at Newcastle

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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Storms and Wrecks

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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A City Swept Away by a Flood

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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