Floods in Tasmania
HOBART, Tuesday.—Heavy floods have occurred in Tasmania, A number of sheep were lost, and several bridges were washed away…
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Floods & storms, 1884
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Up in the Gallery. a Calm After a Storm. Sydney
MEMBERS, for a wonder, in the Assembly to-day, got through the preliminary business with great despatch, and there being no irrepressible members apparently…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—News has been received that the Cudgegong River and Lawson's Creek, Dudgee, are in flood, and that at Windsor the Hawkesbury is…
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A GENELEMAN who arrived by water from Morpeth yesterday afternoon informs us that the reports of a probable serious flood in the Hunter River are not in the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The ship Fort St. George, which has arrived at Melbourne from Liverpool, experienced terrible weather on the voyage during a…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A terrific thunderstorm occurred yesterday in Scotland. Several persons were struck by lightning and killed, and great damage was caused to…
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A thunderstorm, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain, passed over London on July 6. It was not so severe, however, as similar storms which occurred on the same day in…
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The sudden flooding of the Mostyn Collieries, between Chester and Rhyl, is the most disastrous accident which has happened is the North Wales Collieries for many years, and is especially ruinous…
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HONGKONG, Thursday.—70,000 to 80,000 persons in China have been destroyed by a flood…
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ROME, Thursday.—A frightful cyclone swept the town and province of Catania, in Sicily, yesterday, causing terrible loss of life and enormous injury to property. Several hundred persons are reported…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—After severe heat all the morning, a very heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by a downpour of rain, occurred. The lightning was very…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The late hail storm did much damage at Penrith, and reached as far as Dobbo, travelling at the rate of fifty-eight miles an hour…
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WE understand that the late storm completely flooded the drapery store of Mr. E. Boggis, Nelson-street, Wallsend. The amount of damage done to stock was very…
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DUBBO, Monday.—A heavy thunderstorm occurred at Dubbo on Saturday, when over two and a half inches of rain fell, flooding many parts of the town. A…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A destructive thunder-storm occurred here yesterday afternoon, and torrents of rain fell just before the last race. Hundreds of people were drenched, to the skin,…
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GRAFTON, Wednesday.—From news of the damage done at outlying parts of the district through the late storm it appears that the hail was the largest known to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—During the gale on Wednesday the velocity of the wind, at the height of the storm reached seventy miles an hour…
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