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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1868

6 stories in Illawarra's papers

Heavy Gale on the Coast

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1868 · page 3

ONE of the most continuous and violent gales that has been experienced for some time set in on Friday evening and has been blowing without any lull ever since. On Friday…

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The Floods in the Country

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1868 · page 3

ON Saturday, the settlers living along the banks of the Nepean, South Creek. the Hawkeshbury, and the Hunter, were anxiously watching the rise of the rivers, and getting…

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Great Flood in Westport, Hokitika

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1868 · page 4

WHETHER Westport will suffer, as we know Hokitika has done, from the joint encroachments of the sea and the tide, is impossible to say; but it is certain that…

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Great Flood at Baltimore

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1868 · page 4

A TERRIBLE flood occurred at Baltimore and its vicinity on Friday, July 24, which caused great destruction of life and property. The city of Baltimore is built on a hill rising…

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(Concluded from our last.) Act Ii. Scene 3: A room at Hampton Court-King Charles sleeping on a couch (storm without)-A lamp burning. Berkley and Ashburnham

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1868 · page 4

Ash.—He seems to sleep, but hardly rests, I fear. Berk.—The storm without perhaps disturbs his slumbers. K. C.—O, say not sol Is it indeed, indeed(Awakes…

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Earthquake and Storm

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1868 · page 1

We have [?] earthquake. There was for some [?] in the story, as the metropoli[?] hit of disbelieving in provi[?] the evidence has…

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