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

Floods & storms, 1877

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

The Late Terrible Cyclone and Storm-wave in Bengal —A Quarter of a Million of People Destroyed

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 10 January 1877 · page 4

THE Amrita Bazar Patrika of the 23rd November publishes the following information about the late cyclone and the terrible storm-wave which accompanied it:—…

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Floods at Ballarat. Ballarat

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 March 1877 · page 6

A VERY heavy thunderstorm broken ever the town at about a quarter to five o'clock yesterday evening. The flood which was thus caused has been very disastrous in places to…

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Snowstorms and Gales

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 March 1877 · page 7

FOR more than a week past (telegraphs our Edinburgh correspondent) a snowstorm has been raging in Scotland which for prolonged fury and destructive effects is almost…

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Floods on the Hawkesbury. Wednesday, Noon

The Burrowa News · Saturday 5 May 1877 · page 2

IT is a considerable time since it became my duty to record anything like a flood of serious dimensions, and although the present, so far as it has gone, cannot be called a big flood, the water…

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Storm and Loss of Life

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 July 1877 · page 4

THE south-east winds which set in on Tuesday have resulted in almost a continuous downpour of rain. On Saturday the wind blew with increased violence, and there was every indication of the approach of still…

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Terrific Storm at Goulburn. By electric telegraph.(From the Evening News correspondent.)Goal burn, Saturday, 8.30 p.m

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 December 1877 · page 3

A TERRIFIC storm occurred here last night, its violence being unprecedented. rain fell in sheets, and the lightning and thunder were terrible. A house on…

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Further Particulars of Friday's Thunderstorms

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 19 December 1877 · page 2

It was mentioned in our last issue that on Friday afternoon and evening Goulburn was visited by a series of the heaviest thunderstorms experienced for years, that a prodigious quantity of water fell,…

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