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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1835

4 stories in Sydney's papers

The Drouth! the Drouth! and Perambulations. "[?]But still a deluge pours—in my mind's eye, And all these crannies fill,—" WELFGANO. " Occurrent mult tibi Juvenal 6, 654 "

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1835 · page 3

The cattl[?]are dyin.NO.our oak leaves wont fill our [?]orses bellies and prayer, under these dispensations of Providence must be our only re source Read what I formerly told you I and [?]heed…

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Remarkable Hail-storm at Newcastle

The Colonist · Thursday 1 October 1835 · page 4

ON Saturday the 19th of September, the town of Newcastle on the Hunter, was visited by a thunder-storm, the recollection of which, from its accompanying phenomena, will not soon be…

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Extract, Canada-judge Gale. To the Editor of the Times

The Sydney Herald · Monday 26 October 1835 · page 3

Sir,—Mr. Spring Rice having thought proper to asperse the character of Mr. Justice Gale, of Montreal, by asserting that he was incapable of being an impartial judge,…

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Thunder Storm

The Colonist · Thursday 19 November 1835 · page 4

SYDNEY was visited on Tuesday morning about 1 A. M., by one of the most awful storms of lighing and thunder that we have witnessed for a considerable time, accompanied by a heavy…

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