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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1849

7 stories in Sydney's papers

Latest From Austria. Expected Prorogation of the Diet— Furious Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 May 1849 · page 3

We have received advices from Vienna to the 25th of January inclusive. There is nothing stirring in the political world. The rumour that the Diet would be…

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Analysis of Argentiferous Gale[?]a, From Talvac Creek, Shoalhaven River

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 June 1849 · page 3

THE ore consisted of slightly coherent cubes of cubical/parallelopipedons, presenting brilliant metallic facets of a steely lustre, sparsely distributed through a mass of semi-crystally…

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The Addresses of Confidence, Mr. Mayor Flood, and the Member for Camden

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 7 July 1849 · page 5

IN proportion to our admiration of steadfast adherence to principle in evil and good report, keeping its calm dignity amidst the glow of auspicious events, and rising into moral heroism before the shock of adverse circumstances ;--so is our quick and heartfelt scop of everything…

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The Electric Telegraph.— Effects of the Late Snow Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 August 1849 · page 3

IN allusion to the late severe snow storm, Mr. Walker, the superintendent of telegraph, at the Tunbridge Wells station on the south-Eastern line, has made the following interesting…

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Original Correspondence. Hail-storm at Newcastle. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 September 1849 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—A hall-storm, suoh at that which fell at Newcastle on Monday list, the 24th instant, was never remembered to have happened by its oldest inhabitants, nor will it be soon…

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Enclosure In Colonial Steratary's letter of 30th November, 1849, to Edward Flood, Esq

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 December 1849 · page 2

Sir,—I have received your despatch, No. 38, of the 27th February last, transmitting a Memorial addressed to the Queen, by certain inhabitants of New South Wales, praying that her Majesty would be pleased to…

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Great Storm and Loss of Life and Property at Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 December 1849 · page 2

ON Sunday, (November 26), during the forenoon, the temperature of the atmosphere around Melbourne was oppressive in the extreme; towards noon a cool breeze sprung up…

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