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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1874

8 stories in Illawarra's papers

Floods in the Lower Hunter. January 29

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1874 · page 4

ALL traffic on the line between Newcastle and West Maitland having boon stopped on the Great Northern Railway, from Monday to Thursday, gave rise to many…

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Terrific Gale at Auckland Loss of Life, and 25 Vessels Damaged

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 February 1874 · page 2

As the afternoon of Saturday, the 7th instant advanced, Heavy squalls came from the south-west, with fast driving showers, and at times it appeared as if a heavy fall of rain were to set in. The…

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Destructive Gale at New Zealand

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 February 1874 · page 3

FOR a long time past we have enjoyed meet excelle[?] weather, the only fault found with it being that the drought was too prolonged, and that the crops were suffering in…

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Snow Storm Among the Sier[?]as. Blue Canyon, March 3

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 23 April 1874 · page 4

THE snow-storm that set in on the evening of February 28th still continues, and at this time (11 p m) shows no signs whatever of clearing off Sunday evening…

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Fatal Flood at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 23 April 1874 · page 4

The Bacchus Marsh Express states that the heaviest flood seen in Bacchus Marsh for twelve years past, happened on the night of the 2nd of April, between 6 and…

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Terrific Gale at Auckland

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 25 June 1874 · page 4

THE following are particulars of a heavy gale at Auckland on the 30th May (of which we received brief intelligence by telegraph), extracted from the Southern…

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Dreadful Thunderstorm

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 30 July 1874 · page 6

During the raging of the storm on May 25, a number of people in the Hockney Marshes and the neighbourhood took refuge at the White House and the White…

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Poetry. God in the Storm

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1874 · page 4

"DID you hear the storm last night, my child As it burst o'er the [?]idnizh sky, When the thunder rattled land and wild, And the lightning '8' [?] by?"…

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