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

Floods & storms, 1871

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

The Late Floods at Wentworth

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 January 1871 · page 4

AN occasional correspondent of the Pastoral Times, under date 11th ultimo, reports that there were fifty-two homesteads under water—in many cases the roof only appearing…

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Terrific Storm

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 4 February 1871 · page 3

On Sunday last, about 4.30 p.m., heavy black clouds were seen approaching in the direction of Yass from the north-east, portending a severe storm. In about ton minutes a violent wind…

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Great Storm at Auckland. (From the New Zealand Herald.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1871 · page 4

ON Saturday morning, March 25th, Auckland was visited by one of the most severe storms of wind which has been experienced in this province for many years past, and which resulted in a very…

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News by Telegraph. Sydney, Monday, 9 p.m. Great Floods and Hundreds Rendered Houseless

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 May 1871 · page 2

There are floods in all directions, and hundreds of persons are homeless along the rivers Hawkesbury and Hunter. These rivers are still rising, and the rain is incessant…

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The Weather—floods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1871 · page 4

FOR many weighty reasons the weather in this country, especially at this time of the year, is anxiously watched; not merely because of its present importance, but because a careful observation of any…

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Floods on the Hawkesbury

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 3 May 1871 · page 4

The valley of the Hawkesbury has again been inundated. Although the water has not risen to levels attained by some previous floods, nor so high as to cause alarm for the…

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Another Flood in the Braidwood District

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 3

THE old adage that "it never rains, but it pours" has been too literally verified in this district during the past fifteen months, which period has been a history of flood after flood with its devastating effects,…

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The Floods. (From the Sydney Dailies.) St. Mary’s, South Creek. Saturday, 8 a.m

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 2

There is a great flood here; the low lands are all covered. The bridge is submerged ten feet. The waters of the creek, extend from Guild’s store on the west, to Hume’s…

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The Late Flood at Araluen

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 10 May 1871 · page 4

THURSDAY evening.—The damage done by the late flood, the particulars of which I hastily sent you in my last, is the more terrible and heartrending the more the full extent of it is known. It is needless…

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On the Hawkesbury, or the Wail of the Out-flooded

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 June 1871 · page 8

I SEE! I see! the bow of promise given—The covenant-bow of God—in heaven, Spanning the sky in all its glowing sheen Of varied colours—yellow, red, and green…

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Women in the Storm of Fibre.?

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 4

OUR way was round the Rue de Presbourg, and across the various avenues radiating from the Arc de Triomphe to the Avenue de l’lmperatrice—which was rather more…

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A New Theory of the Deluge. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1871 · page 4

SIR,—In sailing once through the Straits of Gibraltar, looking on one side at Ceuta and on the other at the south coast of Spain, it occurred to me that the theory of the deluge could be accounted for…

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