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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1872

4 stories in Illawarra's papers

Original Poetry. The Coming Storm

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 January 1872 · page 4

Upon the billow the storm-bird fides, Or shrieking loud he flies; A leugthened [?]ath the grampus draws, And high his fountain plies…

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Great Flood in India. (Special to the New York Standard, May 9.)

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 25 July 1872 · page 4

LONDON, May 8—noon.—A despatch just received in this city contains information of a terrible calamity which has befallen the town of Vellore, in Madras, British…

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Terrible Storm

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 12 September 1872 · page 4

Halifax, N. S., June 18,—This afternoon Halifax was visited with a tremendous hall storm. Large hail stones fall with such rapidity that the streets were…

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Disastrous Floods at Bathurst

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 5 December 1872 · page 3

THE weather of late has been fearful. The macquarie ha overflown its banks, and every creek in the neighbourhood has been transformed into a swollen, rushing river…

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