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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1881

7 stories in New England's papers

Terrific Storm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 February 1881 · page 8

THE following particulars of the terrific storm which occurred in the neighbourhood of Pikedale station last week are gleaned from the WARWICK ARGUS: —…

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Local News. Snow Storm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 August 1881 · page 4

ABOUT one a.m. on Tuesday last snowcommenced to fall and continued falling heavily till eight o'clock when the sky began to clear overhead and the flakes to…

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Heavy Gales at Newcastle

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1881 · page 2

FROM the Newcastle Daily Herald, of 24th of August we learn that boisterous weather ushered in early on Monday morning culminated towards midnight in a succession of heavy gales and…

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Tales and Sketches. Taken by Storm. an Incident of the Franco-prussian War. (Translated from the French by Edmund.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1881 · page 2

"MADEMOISELLE, we are obliged to ask your hospitality. Believe me, we will encroach upon it as little as possible." The speaker, a young Prussian officer,…

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The Steamship Boomering in the Late Gale. One Man Killed (From Friday's Echo.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 October 1881 · page 6

ON Thursday night grave fears were entertained as to the steamship Boomerang which left Newcastle at 5.30 p.m. on the 18th with 550 tons of coal on board for…

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Sydney Touches. the Late Gale

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 November 1881 · page 2

As I predicted, sad tales of horror reach us from the deep, occasioned by the late gale. First comes the loss of the prim little schooner, Schoolboy with all hands. She was built by " Old…

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A Destructive Gale

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1881 · page 3

A GALE exceeding in intensity any windstorm experienced for some years (says the Pall Mall Gazette) swept over Great Britain on Thursday and Friday, October 13 and 14. From all parts…

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