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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1854

11 stories in Sydney's papers

Drunkenness—what Is to Be Done to Stop This "Second Deluge?"

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 January 1854 · page 8

WHEN a worthless schemer contrives to evade the provisions of the Marriage Law and gets married to a "minor" for the sake of her property; or when a pert hussy of a…

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Entrance to Storm Bay, Van Diemen's Land

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 25 February 1854 · page 2

The accompanying sketch is taken from the River Derwent, and gives a very accurate idea of the heads, with the light-house, by moonlight. The scenery at the entrance of this celebrated bay is very interesting. The light-house shews an exceedingly bright…

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Entrance Ot Storm Bay, Van Dieman's Land

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 25 February 1854 · page 3

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Destructive Storm at Belfast

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 March 1854 · page 11

Early on Sunday morning, the 26th ult., B[?]lfast was visited by one of the must terrific storms perhaps ever witnessed in these parts, which continued through the day and…

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Terrific Flood at Hobart Town

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 25 March 1854 · page 1

Scarcely had we recovered from the shock of the late calamitous fire, when we were subjected to another deplorable visitation from one of the greatest floods that have ever occurred…

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The Heavy Gale in the Channel.—shipwreck

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 April 1854 · page 4
Also in The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List

THE following account of some of the effects of the Inte fearful gales in the Channel appears in the Freeman's Journal, December 29th:— "By accounts which have reached Kingstown and Dublin in…

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The Late Snow Storm. (From the European Times, January 14.) Fatal Railway Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 April 1854 · page 5

ONE of the results of the late excessive fall of snow has been a collision between two trains on the Eastern Counties Railway, and which has been attended with the loss of four lives, and injuries to several of the…

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Flood on Public Works. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 October 1854 · page 5

SIR,—I presume you will agree with me that when a man aspires to, or is selected for, a post of honor, he should have some educational, if not natural, qualification for discharging the duties pertaining to it. In the…

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The Perils of the Press: Or, Reporters Swept Away by a Flood

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 11 November 1854 · page 4

A Parliamentary Serious Drama constructed upon an entirely novel principle by Neddy Bray, Esq., M.L.C., professor of Languages and PLANE Trigonometry. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS…

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Flood on the Public Press

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 11 November 1854 · page 8

WE are not of those who place much faith in points simply because we believe them to be in nine cases out of ten what they are defined mathematically to be. We allude to the definition given by Euclid…

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