Destructive Gales and Loss of Life
AT an early hour on October 21 England was visited by a gale which speedily rose to a violent storm, and has occasioned many serious casualties both in London and the…
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Floods & storms, 1875
25 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Great Floods in the Hunter District. (Abridged from the Evening News.)
ON Saturday the weather, which had been lowering for some days, with alternations of intense heat and fitful rains, settled down unmistakably stormy. Towards the evening it blew a strong gale from the…
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He Saturday the weather, which had been lowering for some days, with alternations of intense heat and fitful rains, settled down unmistakably stormy. Towards the evening it blew a stormy gale from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News of the Floods. (From the S. M. Herald’s Telegrams. )
COMMUNICATION with the Northern districts, which was interrupted on Monday afternoon, was restored yesterday, and the telegrams received by us show that the Hunter and Paterson rivers had risen to…
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THE last seven days have been days of fearful disaster to the residents in the neighbourhood of the Hunter, the Williams, the Paterson, the Hawkesbury, and the Nepean. At West…
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THE Newcastle Chronicle of Tuesday says that almost the whole of the township of West Maitland is covered with water, and a great amount of excitement prevails amongst the public. The water…
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ALTHOUGH we wore prepared for disastrous reports in consequence of the late had weather, those to hand far exceed our expectation. The loss by floods in the country has been very serious, while the…
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THE south-easterly gale which set in on Saturday morning, and blew all Sunday, continued with unabated force yesterday. The weather in the city was about as disagreeable as it well could…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather and the Floods. (From Tuesdays S. M. Herald.)
THE south-easterly gale which set in on Saturday morning, and blew all Sunday, continued with unabating force yesterday. The weather in the city was about as disagreeble as it well…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News of the Floods. (From the S. M. Herald’s Telegrams.)
MORPETH.â Wednesday.â The floods are receding very slowly. The water has fallen about two feet. The only communication with Newcastle is by way of water. A small steamer is running…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Floods in Queensland. Brisbane
At Maryborough the town was visited by the heaviest flood ever known in the district. A fresh commenced in the river, and heavy rains fell: on Thursday night; and the flood reached its highest…
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Is consequence of Glennie's Creek and Bowman's Creek bridges near Singleton being damaged by floods, and the railway between Maitland and Newcastle being submerged, trains cannot run, and no…
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Wednesday.—Heavy rains have been falling since Friday, on which day it blew with hurricane force." The river, rose on Sunday, sixteen feet. All the wharfs and steam companies' sheds were…
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THE weather at Newcastle yesterday, was fine, and intensely hot throughout the day, and similar intelligence reached us from other parts of the district, and from Sydney. We are, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Poetry. the Flood
Rushing, impetuous, riotous, rash, Boiling with blusterous bruit, Yesterday naught but a palpitant plash, Musical, mutably mute…
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THE following telegrams, taken from the S. M. Herald of Tuesday, show that some of the rivers were becoming flooded through the recent rains :—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reserve From Sale for Refuge in Times of Flood. Lachlan District
No. 766. Outer Lower North Thanonga Bun, 4 square miles. The Crown Lands within the following boundaries: Commencing at a point bearing north 45 degrees west 70 chains from the…
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Details are arriving of the earthquakes in Asia Minor early in May. Several villages were destroyed and ever two thousand lives lest. A severe storm occurred at Valparaiso on May 24th, causing fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods at Toulouse. (From the European Mail.)
THE details of the disaster caused by the inundations in the South of France are of a most heartrending character. The St. Cyprien quarter of Toulouse was a perfect sepulchre. Several persons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terrible Floods in Wales and the West of England
IN the West of England the deluge has been heavier than in other districts, many portions of Devon, Cornwall, and Gloucestershiro being covered to a depth of several. feet. In…
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