Great Floods in England. (Home News, Dec. 21.)
The United Kingdom has been visited by some very severe floods owing to heavy rains during the past ten days. Very serious floods have occurred at…
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Floods & storms, 1881
21 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Fearful Storm in Western Australia. Twelve Vessels Wrecked
The following particulars of a fearful storm on the north-west coast of Western Australia are furnished to the Perth In[?] quirer by Mr. John Brockman:—On…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Hail and Rain Storms in Sydney. (From Tuesday's Evening News.)
To-day, between 1 and 2 o'clock, one of the heaviest hailstorms prevailed that has been recorded in Sydney for many years. The atmosphere had been in a very disturbed state…
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We take the following further particulars of the late heavy storm from the Echo of Wednesday:- GOVERNMENT ASTRONOMER'S…
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The Walgett Mail gives the following particulars of the gale in that locality on the 7th March:—The suddenness with which the wind approached from the westward was something…
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A curious dispute has arisen in England on this question. During several months past, there have been several flood times in the m[?]dland counties of England, taking Lincoln…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Poet's Corner. the Flood of Years
A MIGHTY Hand, from an exhan[?] urn, Pociy [?] the [?] Floor of year Among the nations. How the mahing waves Dear all before them. On their foremost edge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mail Carriage in Heavy Snow Storms
A story of almost incredible endurance and fortitude comes from the far West with the reports [?] floods and snow-storms. Three men, including E. D. N. Cooke, superintendent of the stage line,…
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A correspondent of the Western Champion writes on 22nd March, from Stony Point:- "I am of opinion that there is no portion of the interior of Australia better known to…
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THIS is one of the "Flaneur's" latest concoctions: As a rule, all scientific men are humbugs to a certain extent, and some are even more so, but sooner…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Severe Gale in Hobson's Bay. (Argus, June 9.)
On Tuesday night the wind, which had been blowing fresh from N.W., shifted suddenly to the southward, and after midnight it increased to a gale, accompanied with heavy rain. In the bay the full…
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The spring floods of the Missouri River were severer than usual this year, owing to the vast amount of snow to be melted, and the high water was made more than ordinarilo…
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WE have been shown a letter sent from a New England station to the owners living near Singleton, which reads as fallow:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Gale and Narrow Escape to Shipping. (Newcastle Herald of yesterday.)
The rain squalls and threatening weather of Monday culminated during the night in very thick hazes and a strong southerly gale, evidently betokening very rough weather…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Gale and Narrow Escape off Newcastle. (From the Newcastle Herald, Sept. 24.)
During the heavy S.W. gale blowing on Friday morning some excitement was caused about 11 a.m., by the firing of signal guns from Allan's Hill, announcing a craft in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Gale in Sydney. Sydney
IT was blowing a heavy [?] all night, and raining heavily, with a [?] [?]. The [?] [?] for Melbourne mid-day yesterday and the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Gale in Victoria. (By Telegraph to Herald.) Melbourne
The effects of last night's gale were severely felt at Sandridge. The wind had a most disastrous effect on the shipping. Numbers of yachts were torn from their moorings,…
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We find in an American periodical a discription of the system adopted on the Missisippi in building flood embankments, called there "levees." As our Hunter floods bring…
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[?] News of shipwreek and loss of life through the last [?] gale are coming sorrowfull[?] to us. One is the [?] School boy [?]…
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A [?] history of the [?] which [?]…
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