Cyclone and Snowstorms in America
LONDON, Friday.-A terrible cyclone and snowstorms have occurred in the northern portions of the States of New York, New England, Michigao, and…
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Floods & storms, 1889
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Disastrous Floods in Victoria
MONDAY night saw a repetition of the calamity by floods in the Castlemaine district on New Year's Day, On this occasion, however, only one life—that of…
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There has been a serious cyclone at King George's Sound, which caused great damage. 12 luggers and one schooner are missing off the coast…
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The steamer Ghazee, Captain Scotland, one of the Mogul line, was the last vessel to report having been in a cyclone up north. She is now (says the Herald) on her way to London, though it will be…
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A storm which visited the North-western district of Western Australia at the beginning of the month is reported to have caused heavy damage to station property. Fencing…
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A disastrous flood has occurred in the river Rewa, in Fiji, the plantation and mills of the Colonial Sugar Company being damaged to the extent of £40,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Teriffic Storm on the Dividing Range. (Murrurundi Times, Feb. 27.)
During the early part of the evening of Thursday last one of those phenomenal storms, which have caused much damage of property of late in this and the neighbouring colonies and in some instances…
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A writer in the St. Louis Post Dispatch speaking of the development of thunderstorms, calls them immense Leyden jars in the sky, and supports his statement by…
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The hopes rashly cherished that, somehow or other, we should this winter escape the miseries of having London several inches deep in hard, soot grimed snow, or thick brown slush, have been…
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THE steamer Richmond, which arrived to-day from the Islands, brought the American ship Red Cross, Captain [?] which while on a voyage from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gales in the South Seas. (Cable to the Herald.) Auckland
The steamer Richmond, which arrived to-night, brings news of additional wrecks at the Islands, and disastrous gales and floods at Tahiti. During a violent storm on January 29, the American ship…
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ADILAIDE Tuesday night,-Rain has been fold. Almost continuously for the last [?] hours, and extensive floods are again reported. Several…
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Mr Charles Egeson, of the Government Observatory, prognosticates heavy rains and probable floods at the end of this month…
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[?]he greatest floods of the century occurred at [?] on March 9. All the east end of the city [?]ong the course of the Froom was under water, and hundreds of the inhabitants were cut off from…
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Floods of a most [?] character have taken place in Austria and South Germany. An enormous amount of damage has been done…
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THE stesmer Queen of the South arrived in Port Jackson on Tuseday morning from the Macleay River, and, like all other arrivals, reports meeting with the…
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ON Thursday evening there was a break in the weather and 32 points of rain were registered by next morning, and on Friday and Saturday there were light showers. On the…
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Hawkesbury folks seem to have had mach the same weather (as we have experienced On Monday morning at 9 o'clock the water was level with the flooring of Windsor…
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The rain that fell during Sunday continued the succeeding night in heavy driving shower[?], accompanied by a strong gale of wind, which did some damage to hou[?]e properties in the…
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We record with sincere regret the occurrence of mother devastating flood, occ[?]oning considerable destruction of property. When we went to press on Monday night…
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