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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1865

6 stories in Illawarra's papers

Flood Relief Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1865 · page 2

A meeting of the above Committee was held in Sydney, of Friday last. The occasion of the meeting was the following letter from two gentlemen at Minmi, respecting the distress occasioned by the…

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Destructive Storm at New Plymouth

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1865 · page 3

WRITING on the 13th ultimo, the special correspondent of the New Zealand Herald reports as follows :—Last Friday morning, New Plymouth was visited by one of the…

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Storm at New Zealand

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 13 June 1865 · page 3

A telegram to the "Empire" from New Zealand states:—The Auckland, steamer, arrived to-day, from Nelson, with news to the 30th May. She reports that the City of Dunedin, steamer, left Wellington on the…

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Cape of Good Hope. Tremendous Gale in Table Bay.— Total Loss of the R.m.s. Athens and Seventeen Other Vessels

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1865 · page 4

WE (South Australian Register) have recieved, per Doon, Captain Munro, from Mauritius, a copy of the south African Advertiser of the 20th May, which gives…

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Mr. Gale's Non-Explosive Gunpowder

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 October 1865 · page 4

Nothing has for a long time more excited the curiosity and interest of the scientific world than the announcement lately made by Mr. Gale, a gentleman resident in Plymouth, that he had…

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Mr. Gale's Non-explosive Gunpowder

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 October 1865 · page 4

NOTHING has for a long time more excited the curiosity and interest of the scientific world than the announcement lately made by Mr. Gale, a gentleman resident in…

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