Rain Storm in Goulburn
RAIN fell heavily in town on Saturday evening, and the water accumulated at several crossings, especially at the corner of Auburn and Clifford streets. Yesterday several of the…
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Floods & storms, 1879
11 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers
Great Floods at Cooma
ON Tuesday afternoon, 11th instant, a violent storm broke over Cooma. The Mercury states that about four o'clock down fell the rain in torrents. The artillery of the heavens rattled and rolled over…
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WAGGA WAGGA, March 21.—Regarding the temporary railway bridge, it was predicted that should a flood occur in the river the distances between the supports…
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Early on Wednesday morning (says the Chronicle of May 28) the engine-driver working the pneumatic engine of the Long Tunnel Company observed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Go From Home to Hear News.— Startling Intelligence. — Important Bulletins From Young —Storm in a Tea-pot.—see Sydney Morning Herald’s Telegrams As Under. “Young. “
A meeting of miners was held on Saturday night, at which great excitement was manifested, but the proceedings were orderly. A resolution was passed to the effect that on Monday they would work the paddock in defiance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Storm in Brisbane. (From the Queenslander.)
A GALE of wind, which might properly be termed a cyclone, was experienced in Brisbane on Tuesday morning, and continued to rage from 3 o’clock until 11 with a fury that we have seldom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gale v. Mellor
WE learn from a reliable source that Mr. John Gale, proprietor of the Queanbeyan Age, has an action pending against Mr. John Mellor, formerly publisher of the Gunning…
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THE river commenced falling slowly after midnight. It rained heavily from that time, and is still raining. The river and creek are again rising this morning. The flood-water is…
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AT an early hour on Saturday morning there were many anxious people in Fitzmaurice-street watching the rise in the river, but fortunately there was less ground for apprehension than…
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HAIL-STORM.—Not altogether unexpected a very heavy shower of hail fell in Goulburn on Saturday afternoon. The weather for two days previous had been bitterly cold and the heavy banks of dark…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Household. Family Thunderstorms
WE have heard it asserted that a quarrel now and then in a family is not a bad thing—that it purifies the domestic atmosphere, rendering it pleasant and…
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