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

Floods & storms, 1876

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

Disastrous Gales and Floods

The Burrowa News · Saturday 1 January 1876 · page 4

THE north-eastern coasts of England have been visited by some severe gales. The barque Young England, of Middlesbrough, from the Baltic to London, with deals, in making the land, struck…

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Great Flood in the Valley of the Thames

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 19 January 1876 · page 4

ON the 15th November, between two and throe o'clock a.m., the tide on the Thames rose to an extraordinary height, and for many miles extending from Gravesend to…

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Remarkable Storm in Brisbane. (Abridged from the Brisbane Courier.)

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 February 1876 · page 4

On Saturday evening last a storm of hail, rain, and wind more violent than any inhabitant of the city has before experienced here passed though Brisbane. It…

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Gale on the Atlantic Coast

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 March 1876 · page 4

NEW YORK, February 2.—A heavy gale prevails to-day, and telegraph communication north and south is broken in many places. In this city signs, hats, and vails are flying…

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A Great Snow-storm

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 March 1876 · page 6

SOME particulars have been received of a heavy. snowstorm at, Saratoff and it neighbourhood. The roofs of some houses were; forced in the weight, arid the snow was…

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Rain Storm in Melbourne

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 5 April 1876 · page 2

THE long-continued dry and hot weather which has given rise to so munch anxiety as to its disastrous effects on the agricultural, pastoral, and mining interests has at last…

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Gale and Floods in Queensland. Brisbane, July 16Th

The Burrowa News · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 5

TO-DAY Brisbane was visited with the heaviest easterly gale experienced for some time. Torrents of rain fell from Friday until yesterday at dark. The weather at Gape Moreton has been boisterous…

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Flooded Sites of Towns

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 7

THE first feelings awakened in the minds of those who have been made acquainted with the news published on Tuesday in the Sydney newspapers concerning the disastrous floods…

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The Floods in the North Coast Districts

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 4

THE following communications converting the [?] in the article court fi[?]me [?] that member to the by are here murder for [?] in pr[?]ration:— Letter from the commissioner for [?] in the…

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Devastating Floods and Loss of Life in the Clarence District. Grafton, July 22Nd

The Burrowa News · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 3

THE following telegram, forwarded by our correspondent at Grafton on the above date, reached us this (Tuesday) morning, having been detained in consequence of interruption of the line…

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Devastating Floods and Loss of Life in the Clarence District. Grafton. July 22Nd

The Burrowa News · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 2

The following telegram, forwarded by our correspondent at Grafton on the above date, reached us this (Tuesday) morning, having been detained in consequence of interruption of the line…

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Devastating Floods and Loss of Life in the Clarence District. Extreme Destitution of the People.[by Electric TELEGRAPH.]Grafton, Saturday, 22nd July

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 2

The following telegram forwarded by our correspondent at Grafton, at the above date reached us this morning, having been detained in consequence of interruption of the…

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The Flood on the Clarence River. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald). GRAFTON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 4

ON the 15th instant there was a heavy south-east gale, with rain. Early on Sunday morning the river rose rapidly. A large quantity of flour, wheat, and other produce on Fisher’s Wharf was…

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The Deluge at Grafton. Incidents or the Floods

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 August 1876 · page 3

IT is with very great regret that my notes this week must tell of one of the most disastrous .floods that has ever visited the Clarence district within the knowledge of…

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The Heaviest Gale on Record

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 September 1876 · page 2

THE long spell of unseasonably fine weather that has prevailed for some months past has be given place to the flercest southerly gale known in the recovered of the colony. Throughout Sunday a steady south-west…

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The Late Gale

The Burrowa News · Saturday 16 September 1876 · page 3

As via anticipated, the Rale which set. in on Sunday last, and which continued with unabated fury during the whole of Monday, ban proved very destructive to property. It came np so…

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The Steamship City of Melbourne in the Gale

The Burrowa News · Saturday 16 September 1876 · page 2

Since the commencement of the gale on Sunday night last there has open a considerable amount of uneasiness regarding the steamship City of Melbourne, not so much about the ship herself, as…

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The Storm at Newcastle. (From the S. M. Herald’s Correspondent.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1876 · page 1

SINCE Newcastle has been a port, according to the testimony of those who have known it for upwards of forty years, there has never been an instance of a storm passing over it equal in violence and…

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THE HEAVlEST Gale on Record. Great at Destruction of PROPERTY.(From Monday’s Evening News.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 September 1876 · page 4

THE long spoil of unseasonably fine weather that had prevailed for some months past, has given place .to the fiercest southerly gale known, in the records of the colony…

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A Cutter in a Gale; Or, the Re-viewer Reviewed. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1876 · page 4

HURRAH for the Cutter, The clipper built Cutter, That takes in her ‘sweeps’ (a)& ‘bonnets a sail’(b). When the storm is brewing…

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