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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1868

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Thunderstorms and Rust in Wheat. to the Editor of the Southern Argus

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1868 · page 2

SIR,—The generally-accepted theory as to the cause of thunderstorms in elevated districts in the spring is, that as the sun advances into this hemisphere it causes electrical supersaturated…

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Terrific Cyclone in Bengal. Immense Destruction of Property and Loss of Life

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 4

ON the night of Friday, the 1st Nov., a cyclone raged in Bengal, extending, according to present information, from the bay no[?]ward to Serajguni, westward to…

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Flood and Wrecks at Canter-bury New Zealand

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 3

By the barques Camille, and Anne, which arrived in port yesterday, from New Zealand, the former from Aukland, the latter from Bluff Harbour, we are put in possession of…

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Great Storm and Shipwrecks

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 4 March 1868 · page 4

THE wet weather of Sunday, when the temperature was very high, changed early on Monday very suddenly. At about one a.m. a heavy fall of snow accompanied the rain,…

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Great Storm at San Francisco

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 5

S[?] Francisco was visited by a severe storm on the evening of the 2[?] ultime, which continued to the 23rd, causing some damage to the…

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Terrific Thunder Storm at As-pfuwall Loss of Life

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 4

A most terrific thunderstorm passed over Aspinwall between one and two o'clock on the 23rd July. About half past one o'clock a terrific . flash…

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Magnetic Storms

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1868 · page 3

THE needle has been exhibiting for several weeks the most perfect uniformity of oscillation. Day after day the careful microscopic observation of the needle’s progress,…

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Something like a Hall Storm

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1868 · page 3

THE San Antonio Express of May 21 gives the following particulars of a disastrous hailstorm:— “Our city is a perfect wreck; every house in it has received some damage;…

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Another Storm Rising

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1868 · page 4

A [?] appears to be rising in the United States with reference to our [?] laws[?] Mr. Seward has been inciting the President to appeal to Congress, while at…

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