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

Floods & storms, 1878

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

Storm in Brisbane

The Burrowa News · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 2

THE Brisbane correspondent of the S. M. Harold states that shortly after 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon a terrific hailstorm, which lasted for…

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Sonnet 1. North Head: the Storm

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1878 · page 4

Lo ! the tierce tempest dashes on thy breast, And furious seas roll on the trembling shore; The clamouring ocean moans to wholm thee o’er, And deadly lightning shimmers on thy crest…

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The Floods in Sydney and Suburbs

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 3

THE fearful storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by torrents of rain, which swept over the city and suburbs of Sydney last night will long be remembered As so often happens with storms and…

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Heavy Floods in the Campbelltown District. — the Railway Damaged and Traffic Suspended

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1878 · page 4

WITHIN the last few days Campbelltown district has been visited with two or three of the heaviest storms of rain known for many years. At Liverpool the George River was…

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Heavy Floods at Yass and Loss of Life

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 March 1878 · page 2

BEFORE daylight on Tuesday morning it commenced to ruin in Yass and continued without ceasing until past two o'clock on Wednesday. For one hour on Tuesday afternoon and…

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Heavy Floods at Yass and Loss of Life

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 3

BEFORE daylight on Tuesday morning it commenced to run in Yass, and continued without ceasing until past two o'clock on Wednesday. For one hour on Tuesday afternoon and nearly two hours on…

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The Flood at Marengo. Wednesday morning

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 2

RAINING heavily. The Marengo creek was a ‘ hanker ’ last night, and one of its tributaries known as ‘ Morgan’s gutter, and which cuts right across the main street, is again impassable,…

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Heavy Floods at Yass and Loss of Life. (From the Yass Courier.)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1878 · page 7

BEFORE daylight on Tuesday morning it commenced to rain in Yass and continued without ceasing until past two o’clock on Wednesday. For one hour on Tuesday afternoon…

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Floods on Bland. Loss of Stock and Narrow Escape From Loss of Life

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 3 April 1878 · page 2

ON Sunday and Monday, 24th and 25th March, very clouly. On Tuesday it commenced raining, and continued to [?] until Wednesday night; about midnight. We had about 5,000…

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Floods in London

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 29 May 1878 · page 4

ALL the southern districts of London and also various neighbourhoods north of the Thames were yesterday morning visited by floods, consequent upon the heavy rain of…

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Floods in Victoria

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 26 June 1878 · page 4

Murchison, Tuesday.— All the country on the eastern side of the Goulburn is under water. About twenty head of cattle were drowned to-day. The…

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Great Rain Storm in Sydney. (From the Evening News.)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1878 · page 7

WE venture to say that the oldest inhabitant of Sydney will tax his memory in vain to find a parallel for the rain storm that fell in Sydney on Thursday. In less than a quarter of an…

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Original Poetry. Storm

The Yass Courier · Friday 9 August 1878 · page 4

The wind swoops down on the towering woods, With a sound like the roll of a thousand floods, Through mountainous places falling: Strange sounds I hear from the creaking limbs,…

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Destructive Storm London, Septemder 1

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 September 1878 · page 2

Mikotz, in Hungary, has been destroyed by storm, and a hundred lives lost…

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Floods in the Tyrol London, August 27

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 September 1878 · page 2

Disastrous floods have occurred in the Tyrol. The destruction of property is immense…

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Destructive Storms in Canada. London, September 15

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 2

Destructive storms have occurred in Canada. Toronto was flooded…

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A Storm in London

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 October 1878 · page 7

A FEW minutes before one o'clock, peals of distant thunder dissipated all doubt whether the overcharged atmosphere indicated blight or storm. As soon as the sky became…

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Severe Storm at Yass

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 December 1878 · page 2

On last Friday night a severe storm passed over Yass. All day the weather was most oppressively hot, and in the afternoon large mass of clouds came up from the north-west…

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