Great Storm in the Sun
Observers of the sun found indications of intense commotion on August 11, 12, and 13. The sun spots were numerous, large, and active, and protuberances shot…
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7 stories in Illawarra's papers
The Late Storm at Shellharbour (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—I am very much pleased to report that we sustained but very little damage during the late storm. The sea broke over our "sea-wall" with fury, bet had the parapet wall been built, as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tuesday's Storms. Great Falls of Hail and Rain—loss of Life
IT is not often that we have to record meteorological events such as those of Tuesday last. In the first place the thunder-storm which had for some days appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Incidents of the Storm in Sydney on Tuesday Last
THE Central Markets suffered severely in the matter of broken skylights, a hailstone weighing nearly 1¼lb falling close to one of the stalls. Several windows in the Colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clifton. the Late Storm
As noticed in our last issue, a terrible storm raged along this coat on Thursday last, culminating in the wreck of the Coal Cliff jetty. Early in the morning, the people of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Storm
THE storm that raged during the early days of this week has left its mark in several places along the coast, The sand-drift occasioned by it from Belmore Basin…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Storm and Storms Generally
At a meeting of the Royal Society, held in Sydney a few days ago, Mr. H. C. Russell, the Government Astronomer (by request), made a few remarks on the subject of…
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