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

Floods & storms, 1883

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

Heavy Rain in Sydney. Floods at Wollongong, Dapto, Windsor, and Albion Park. Sydney, Monday, 2.15 p.m

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 February 1883 · page 2

The weather for the past two days and a half has been most boisterous, flooding the low lying parts of the city and suburbs. Since the commencement of the year 15 inches of…

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The Coming Storm

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 March 1883 · page 2

THE science of meteorology and weather forecasting has made great strides during recent years, but we were not prepared for such a remarkable development of…

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Wiggins's Storm

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 8 March 1883 · page 2

OUR paternal government has felt itself called upon in the interest of its people to consult Mr. Ellery on the probability of our being visited by a terrible storm on March 11. The cause of the apprehension…

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Severe Gales and Floods in England

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 April 1883 · page 4

GALES and heavy rainfall have been productive of serious damage all over the country. Shipping casualties have been numerous, and accompanied, in many…

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The Gundagai Flood of 1852. to the Editor

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 July 1883 · page 2

SIR,—The accompanying lines have not, I believe, appeared in print for many years. Tuesday, the 26th June, was the 31st anniversary of the disastrous flood at…

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