Destructive[?] Floods in Peru
A Lima letter of February 27th has the following:—Public attention during the past ten days has been mainly directed to the great floods which have taken place along the line of the…
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Floods & storms, 1878
35 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2
A Rain Storm at, Last
Some of our readers may perhaps remember that the English papers of January noted that up to Christmas Day the winter had been unusually mild, ripe strawberries having been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Storm in the City
Yesterday the metropolis and suburbs were visited with one of the most violent gales that we have for a long time recorded. The tide in the harbour rose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Violent Storm on the Coast. Disastrous Shipwreck and Loss of Life. Destruction to Property. (From Monday's Evening News.)
WE have to record another fierce gale along the cost which has caused shipwreck, loss of life, and destruction to property. The first break in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storms on the Southern Coast. Nine Racehorses Drowned
It appears that the furious gales which during the last few days have been sweeping along the coast, reports the Melbourne Herald, indicated their approach at Warrnambool by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Melbourne and Geelong. (From Monday's Daily Telegraph.)
The river Yarra was at its greatest heights during the early morning of Saturday, and was then about twenty inches under the level attained by the flood of three months since…
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We copy from a California paper (of June 6) what to us seems a new idea in embankments, so far as Australian discussion has been seen by us. The chief novelty is the alleged use by the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Great Rainstorm in Sydney. Floods in the Streets
We venture to say that that the oldest inhabitant of Sydney will tax his memory in vain to find a parallel for the rainstorn that fell in Sydney on Thursday. In less than a quarter of an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Storm in London. Great Sewers Burst and the Metropolitan Underground Railway Deluged. (From the London Daily News.)
A few minutes before 1 o'clock peals of distant thunder dissipated all doubt whether the overcharged atmosphere indicated blight or storm. As soon as the sky became generally clouded, the storm…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Terri[?]o Summer Storm. Eleven Persons Killed
Pittsburg, July 4.—The day just past has been one of the most quiet anniversaries ever celebrated in this city. The weather was intensely warm in the morning, but about 6 o'clock a severe thunder and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Heavy Storm at Geelong. (Argus, Oct. 29.) Geelong
One of the heaviest thunderstorms experienced for many years broke over the town to-day. The clouds early in the morning presented the appearance of being highly charged with electricity, hortly after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Heavy Rain about Quirindi. (From the Murrurundi Times, Nov.9)
For the first time in six years, according to old residents, this district on Monday experienced the novelty of a flood. The latter end of last week was a varying continuance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quirindi. (From Our Own Reporter.) Heavy Rain and Floods
For the first time in six years, recording to old residents, this district on Monday experienced the novelty of a flood. The letter end of last week was a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Great Storm in Hungary. (From the Daily Telegraph, Sept. 4.) Vienna, Tuesday night
HEARTRENDING d[?]tails continue to reach us from the acene of the recent catastrophe in Hungary. The town of Misk[?]lez is one heap of rains. What were once the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thunderstorm Weather.—The Thermometer Heat
Recently we have had several thunderstorm days,—days on which storms broke. But they have been attended with very little rain here. From some few places in the Hunter…
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