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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1844

16 stories in Sydney's papers

The Late Storm

The Australian · Tuesday 9 January 1844 · page 4

The provincial papers are filled with details of the injury done by the thunderstorm of Wednesday week. It appears to have been particularly severe in Kent; the…

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Extraordinary Hail and Thunder Storm

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1844 · page 4

On Sunday last Parramatta was visited with a most awful thunder storm, accompanied by hail of extraordinary magnitude, which played upon the houses in the town with the force and execution of incessant…

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Notes on the Gyratory Storms of Sunday, January 14, 1844, Observed at Dooral

The Australian · Tuesday 23 January 1844 · page 3

The 14th January, 1844, will be celebrated in the meteorological annals of the County of Cumberland, on account of a succession of storms, the phenomena of which were too well-developed…

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The Late Storm

The Australian · Thursday 25 January 1844 · page 3

Further particulars have reached me since my last account was written. AtCamden, the hail was so violent that s[?]es were w broken, as well as glass. At Penrith, the storm seen…

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The Late Storm. To the Editor of the Australian. Cobbitty, Camden, Jan. 20, 1844

The Australian · Tuesday 30 January 1844 · page 3

SIR,—Through accident I only received your's of this day. I read with much interest the elaborate and scientific description of the 14th instant, from the…

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Police Office. Monday, May 13. (Before the Mayor and Alderman Flood) Assault. Dillon V. BRENAN

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 15 May 1844 · page 3

In this case, Mr. John Dillon, attorney, was plaintiff, and Mr. J. R. Brenan, Coroner of Sydney, defendant. The charge brought by Ms. Dillon against Mr. Brenan was for an assault, the…

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British Extracts. Total Loss of the Ship Phœnix, of Scarborough, in a Snow Storm

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 3

WITHIN the last two or three days accounts have arrived, communicating the painful intelligence of the total wreck of the British-built ship Phœnix, belonging to Scarborough, in a snow storm, off the Langley…

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British Extracts. Total Loss of the Ship Phoenix, of Scarborough, in a Snow Storm

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 4

WITHIN the last two or three days accounts have arrived, communicating the painful intelligence of the total wreck of the British-built ship Phoenix, belonging to Scarborough, in a snow storm, off the Langley…

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Another Dreadful Storm at Sea

The Australian · Friday 19 July 1844 · page 2

We regret to state that the loss of vessels and human life during the late awful gales has been very great. We subjoin tho list of the wrecks received at Lloyd's up to a late hour on Friday…

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Twenty Lives Lost in a Storm

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1844 · page 4
Also in The Star and Working Man's Guardian

The gales of wind which blew heavily during the whole of Friday night and Saturday morning from S.S.W. were, we regret to state, productive of the most fearful results along the coast. At Scarborough…

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Police Incidents. MONDAY.—Before Alderman Flood

The Australian · Wednesday 2 October 1844 · page 4

EVIL COMMUNICATIONS c.—Francis Collins, who had been only three hours released from durance vile, in which he had been confined in Her Majesty's Goal…

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Van Diemen's Land. the Floods. (From the Hobart Town Courier, Oct. 8.)

The Australian · Friday 18 October 1844 · page 3

We have received, from various parts of the island, accounts of the damage sustained from the extensive floods which commenced rising on the night of Monday…

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The Late heavy Storm. SYDNEY

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 19 October 1844 · page 3
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

THE gale of Tuesday aud Wednesday is supposed to be the heaviest that has occurred in Sydney since the year 1834. The steamer James Watt drove from her anchors,…

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Country News. the Late Floods on the Hawke Bury

The Australian · Saturday 26 October 1844 · page 4

We must indeed, sympathise with the many poor Tenant, who have suffered so severely by the late floods, having, literally speaking, lost their all and many of…

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