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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1867

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Floods Relief Meeting

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 16 July 1867 · page 2

In pursuance of advertisement, this meeting took place this evening, (Saturday). The Chairman of the Municipal Council (Mr Wm. Fryer) presided. The meeting though small, was decidedly enthusiastic…

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Concert in Aid of the Flood Relief Fund

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 25 July 1867 · page 2

THE entertainment in aid of the Floods Relief Fund took place in the Court House, on Friday evening last. The building was densely crowded…

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Terrific Gale.—eight Lives Lost

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 1 August 1867 · page 3

The fearful gale of wind that blow throughout the early part of yesterday, has caused a most lamentable loss of life, and the destruction of two pilot boats and a shipping butcher's…

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Heavy Gale. Loss of Two Pilot Boasts at the Heads. Drowning of Pilots Robinson and Reeder and Five of the Crew. Drowning of Robert Green, of the Shipping Butcher's Boat. Loss of the Schooner Otago at Newcastle. Expected Floods to the South

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 August 1867 · page 2

Scarcely have the effects of late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, ere it is our painful duty to record a terrible disaster on the return of boisterous weather. On Sunday last, about…

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Central Flood Relief Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 August 1867 · page 2

A meeting of the Working Committee of the above fund was held at the Exchange, yesterday forenoon. There was a good attendance, and the Mayor occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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The Floods in the Murray

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 24 October 1867 · page 1

Echuka, October 10.—Not for the last twenty years—so says the oldest inhabitant of Echuka, King Hopwood—has there been such a flood in the Mutny as the…

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Terrific Thunderstorm

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 31 October 1867 · page 1

THERE seems to be a common consent that the tempest of thunder and rain which raged on Monday night and during the early hours of yesterday morning was not only…

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Floods in South Australia

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 31 October 1867 · page 1

THE Southern Argus, contains full particulars of the damages done by the recent cant heavy floods in the South district. The following information is abridged…

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Arrival of the Rangatira at Adelaide with the English Mail Occupation of Rome by French Troops. Complete Defeat of the Garrbaldians. Manchester Fenians Condemned to Death. Dreadful Storm at St. Thomas Fifty Vessels Wrecked. Island of Tortola Submerged. 10,000 People Destroyed. Cyclone at Calcutta. Adelaide, Sunday. 1 a.m

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 19 December 1867 · page 1

THE A. S. N. Company's steamer Rangatira arrived at Glenelg at 11.30 last night, the passage from the Sound occupying 109 hours; she experienced head winds throughout. The…

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