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5 stories in Illawarra's papers
MUDGEE.—About one o'clock on Saturday morning the inhabitants of this were startled from the their slumbers by what appeared to be the bursting of a waterspout; for about ten minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At day light this morning as south-west gale set in. The Atlantic, schooner, made the port, and anchored under Nobby's about 9.30 a.m. The Rapid, tug-boat, went out to tow her into harbour, but in doing so the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wednesday's Bathurst Free Press reports that on the evening of the 21st, instant, Bathurst was visited by one of the sharpest storms of wind and rain which has been experienced for some time. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A severe storm raged in this neighborhood on Sunday night, the 19th. Several casualties occurred eurred in the Mersey, but happily unattended with loss of life. At an early hour on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tenterfield Chronicle of the 18th says:—Seldom have journalists to report a succession of more "heavy weather" than that which has visited this quarter before and since our last publication. The…
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