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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1886

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The Floods and Shearing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1886 · page 5

Shearing operations have been discontinued at the Dunlop station, near Bourke, on account of the floods. The river is 36 feet 8 inches high…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Saturday. Great Floods Expected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 September 1886 · page 5

Great floods are expected on the Murray, which now is nearly at the height attained at the great floods of 1870…

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The S.s. Carlton in a Storm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 October 1886 · page 7

AMONG the vessels that had the misfortune to be caught in the heavy gale which swept along the Victorian coast was the steamship Carlton, which put into Port Jackson…

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The Storm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1886 · page 5

The storm of wind and rain on Thursday night last has left its traces in many places here. There has fortunately no very serious damage been done. Sheets of galvanized iron have been blown off…

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Floods in Texas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1886 · page 5

Serious floods have taken place in Texas, an extensive tract of country is inundated. Two hundred persons have been drowned…

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Heavy Storm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1886 · page 8

One of the most terrific thunder and hailstorms that we ha[?] experienced for some years passed over the township yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, about 3 o'clock…

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Select Poetry. a Day of Storm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1886 · page 2

'Twas a day of storm, for the giant Atlantic, rolling in pride, Drawn by the full moon, driven by the fierce wind, the upon tide,…

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PARIS, Thursday. Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 5

Destructive floods are reported in many provinces of Southern France, and similar reports have been received from Italy…

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The Melpomene in a Cyclone

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1886 · page 10

IN a recent cablegram appeared the intelligence of a dreadful disaster at sea, which brings vividly before landsmen the perils attending the unfortunate ship which gets…

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Fearful Storm in the United Kingdom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1886 · page 12

A TERRIFIC storm raged round the coasts of the United Kingdom on Oct. 15, and continued in some quarters with unabated vehemence during the…

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Review. a Flood that led on to Fortune

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 December 1886 · page 7

IT is not the privilege of the critic now adays to grow enthusiastic over a new book, but the rarity of a work from a colonial author calls forth such delight that the…

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LONDON, Wednesday. Dreadful Storm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 December 1886 · page 5

A terrific gale has been raging during the last 24 hours over England and Ireland. The storm is especially severe on the south coast of England…

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