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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1846

7 stories in Sydney's papers

To Mr. Alderman Flood

The Sydney Weekly Transcript · Saturday 28 February 1846 · page 1

MR DEAR ALDERMAN -- Permit me to address a few words of gentle remonstrance to you. I do so with the desire of pointing out to you "the error of your ways," and…

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Van Diemen's Land. Great-flood in the Derwcht

The Sydney Weekly Transcript · Saturday 4 April 1846 · page 3

WE learn from the Hobart Town Advertiser that the Derwent and its tributary rivers rose to a height, on last Friday fortnight, unprecedented for the last twenty-three years, and that…

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Meteorology. Hot Gale of 11Th April, 1846

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 May 1846 · page 3

ALTHOUGHT the summer months of 1845—6, from October to March, are conspicuous in the annals of Australia's climatology, on account of the frequent violence and duration of hot…

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Dreadful Gale Encountered by the Maria Somes

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 July 1846 · page 3

THE distressing events that attended the accidents the Maria Somes, transport, encountered in the hurricane of the end of March, and the unfortunate loss of the…

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A Puddle in a Storm

The Sentinel · Thursday 22 October 1846 · page 2

SINCE the first issue of the Sentinel the Popish party in Sydney have suffered be opportunity to pass of endeavouring to weaken its influence. The bold, uncompromising protest, which was…

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Domestic Intelligence, Terrible Storm and Destruction of Property at Rarotonga. (From a Missionary's Letter.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 October 1846 · page 2

ON the 16th of March last, we were visited with one of the most awful storms that I suppose ever swept across the Pacific. We continued in our house as long as we considered it…

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English News. Terrific Storm in London on the 1st AUGUST

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 December 1846 · page 2

THE Metropolis was visited on Saturday by a remarkable thunder-storm. The weather had for some days before been very sultry, and especially on Thursday. On Friday afternoon,…

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