Severe Gale in Dunedin
ONE of the most severe gales experienced in Dunedin for years expended its strength over the district yesterday. A strong wind, without rain, had blown during the…
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20 stories in Illawarra's papers
Violent Storm
On Sunday afternoon a violent storm passed over the district during which the rain fell in torrents In some places the thunder and lighting were very heavy and hail and rain fell in large quantities. At…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Floods and Whirlwinds, and Alarming Earthquakes in Mexico
We have the intelligence, by way of San Francisco (says the Panama Star), that destructive storms of wind and rain had swept over North-western Mexico, doing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gale at Newcastle
The heaviest gale of wind we have been visited with for the last twelve months commenced on Friday evening, and continued with unabated fury until Saturday afternoon, causing a heavy sea. During…
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THE city and suburbs were on Wednesday visited by the severest dust storm which has been experienced for many years. At about seven o'clock a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Poetry. Thoughts During a Winter Storm
MOURNFULLY Murmurs the winds' wild wail, Through craggy mountain and rifted vale; While the torrent's rush, and the tree's strange tone…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fearful Gale at Newcastle. Loss of the Brig Burnett and All Hands Schooner Jessie Wrecked, Three Men Drowned. Other Vessels Supposed Lost. Newcastle. Sunday, 6 p.m
A HEAVY gale from S.E. set in last night, and blew very hard, with intervals of heavy rain, which still continues. the sen rose very rapidly, and broke with great violence across…
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We understand that the Government intend taking immediate action in reference to the introduction of ta more extended system of storm signals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recovery of Bodies Lost in the Recent Gale
THE Newcastle correspondent of the Maitland Mercury writes:—On Wednesday last the first of the bodies lost in the wreeks during the recent gale was recovered in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods
WINDSOR, Saturday, May 8, 4 p.m.— It is with extreme regret that I have to record we are in imminent danger of a great and destructive flood, Since…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood in the Camden District—two Persons Drowned
The Nepean, like the other tributaries of the Hawkesbury, was of couse also flooded on Saturday in proportion with the main stream. At Camden, that part…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods at Penrith
Learing his colleagues to proceed northward by the Windsor and Richmond line into the Hawkesbury district, Mr. J.F. Josephson, the Solicitor-General, went on,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cyclone in India
THE Times of India, 8th June, furnishes the following particulars:—"The British India Steam Navigation Company's steamer Cheduba, with malls and passengers from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Storm Bird Affair
THE Melbourne Argue of Tuesday acquaints us that James Rogers and George O'Brien were again brought before the magistrates in the City Court on Monday, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Flooding of a Claim at Ballarat. Ten Men Submerged
The flood was nowhere attended with such a disastrous result as at the claim of the Great Northern Junction Company. This claim is situated about three and a half miles out on the Creswick Road, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods in Victoria
CATASTROPHE IN A MINE.—Amongst other calamities attributable to the flood, is an occurrence at the Great Northern Junction Company, at the foot of Mount Rowan and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Ballarat
From our Ballarat contemporaries we are able to glean a brief account of the final proceedings in this catastrophe, which, painful as it is, might have been so much more calamitous, had the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Storm at Boston
BOSTON, September 9.—The storm last night was the heaviest between 7 and 8 o clock. G. M. Clark, in the morning, attempted to rescue a boy who was reported…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Belmore Produce Market. "There's a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune." to the Editor of the Kiama Independent
SIR.—Knowing your efforts through the columns of the Independent not only to benefit the residents of Illawarra but the colonists in general, I feel satisfied you will allow me a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News by the Last Mail. Terrible Storms in America
A fearful storm occurred in America on October 4. In Albany, and some distance westward on the Central Railroad, trains were delayed and culverts were washed away. The…
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