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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1845

16 stories in Sydney's papers

Literary Register. the Horseman Who Faced the Storm. "Owre true a tale."

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 4 January 1845 · page 6

He left his home and be rode away Tow'rds Goulburn's well known plain; He purposed making no lengthened stay, But, sad to tell, from that hapless day,…

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The Sea-storm

The Sentinel · Wednesday 5 February 1845 · page 4

It was a beautiful, calm afternoon in summer; the surface of the Solway was as smooth as glass, for it was just high water, and there was scarcely wind enough to dimple its surface, or to raise the dense train of smoke…

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The Sea Storm. (Concluded From Our Last.)

The Sentinel · Wednesday 12 February 1845 · page 4

The deck was deserted, except by the captain and the officer of the watch--one watch of the men having been sent below to the pumps, and the other to their ham mocks. The captain was standing under the lee of the…

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Terrific Hail-storm—east Maitland

The Australian · Thursday 13 February 1845 · page 3

I hare just been witness to one of the most terrific and destructive storms of hail that has ever visited this district since it was first trodden by the foot of the white…

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Police Office.—monday, March 10. (Continued.) Before Messrs. Flood and Stirling

The Australian · Thursday 13 March 1845 · page 4

Edward Byrnes, an indentured apprentice of Mr. Edward Walton, blacksmith, of George-street, was brought before the Bench charged with absenting himself from his employ without leave…

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Original Correspondence. Thunder Storms. To the Editor of the " Weekly Register."

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 5 April 1845 · page 4

SIR -- The occurrence of a "thunder storm" last evening reminded me of an observation which I have made regarding those phenomena, and of which I would wish to see a…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the "Weekly Register." THUNDERSTORMS

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 26 April 1845 · page 195

SIR -- In the Register of April 5th, a letter signed G. N. contains some sensible remarks on "thunder storms," and solicits also further information on the subject. Although…

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Gale at the Mauritius

The Sentinel · Wednesday 7 May 1845 · page 3

The following is an extract from the Price Current, dated Port Louis, December 25th:--"On the 18th, 19th, and 20th instant, a strong gale visited our coasts, and occasioned serious anxiety for the fate of several…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the "Weekly Register." Thunder Storms

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 10 May 1845 · page 220

SIR -- In your paper of the 26th appears a letter signed R. Rus. "in illustration" (as the writer says) of the common occurrence that electric storms proceed on this coast…

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British Seamanship in a Storm. Boulonge, Nov. 23

The Sentinel · Wednesday 14 May 1845 · page 1

We have had here, for the last four or five days, a succession of tempests almost without example for their duration and fury. Happily there have been no wrecks in our immediate neighbourhood, but I heard this…

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Homebush Races.--licensed Publicans. Tuesday, May 13. (Before C. Windeyer, Esq., P. M., Alderman Flood, Major Smith, and Mr. Miles.)

Commercial Journal and General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 May 1845 · page 3

In the case of Mrs. Avery, of the Bay Horse, Parramatta Road, and Edward Borton, of the Blue Bell Hotel, Erskine-street. Mr. Windeyer said, that on Saturday last an…

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British Seamanship in a Storm

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 24 May 1845 · page 4

We have had here (Boulogne), for the last four or five days, a succession of tempests almost without example for their duration and fury. Happily there have been no wrecks in our immediate…

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Sydney District Council. Friday. Present: The Warden; Councillors, Hyndes, Fisher, Macdermott (Alderman), Thurlow, Flood (Alderman), Kettle, and Cape. Charter of the District

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 June 1845 · page 2

The minutes of the last meeting having been read by the Secretary, Mr. THURLOW, in pursuance of previous notice, proceeded to move the following resolution:…

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To Mr. Alderman Flood

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 22 November 1845 · page 2

Manners make the man, the want of it the fellow; And all the rest is leather and prunello. I do not conceive that I owe you the least apology for addressing you thus directly;…

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Alderman Flood and the "Smart" Magistrate!

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 29 November 1845 · page 1

THERE is no department within the control of the British government in which greater scrutiny is used, than in the selection of gentlemen duly qualified by their station in society, temper, and acquirements,…

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Original Correspondence. Thunder Storms of November 20, 1845. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 December 1845 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—The attention of your readers having been invited by your correspondents to the remarkable thunder-storms which visited the neighbourhood of Paramatta, as well as…

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