Floods and Drainage. (From the Northern Times, November 10.)
Empire · Thursday 20 November 1856 · page 4
In a district possessing, as this does, so vast a quantity of valuable land liable to occasional flooding, it is a question of considerable importance whether or not a systematic course of drainage might not advantageously…
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Empire · Saturday 22 November 1856 · page 1
BRIGHTON, THURSDAY— A most severa gale visited this part of the coast last night. About eleven o'clock at night the wind began to blow very briskly from the southward and eastward, and towards twelve and later…
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Empire · Saturday 22 November 1856 · page 1
A deplorable accident has occurred on the line of rail way between Antwerp and Ghent. The last train on Sunday night, conveying about 800 passengers from Antwerp, who were returning from the fetes on the…
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Empire · Monday 24 November 1856 · page 3
A terrific thunderstorm broke over Brussels and its environs on Sunday evening, which lasted for about three hours, and occasioned the loss of some lives and great destruction of property. The thunder and light…
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Empire · Monday 24 November 1856 · page 3
BRIGHTON, THURSDAY— A most severe gale visited this port of the coast last night. About eleven o'clock at night the wind began to blow very briskly from the southward and eastward, and towards twelve and later…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 November 1856 · page 3
YASS.—On Wednesday last, about half-past nine a.m., we were visited by the most extraordinary fall of hail ever known in this destrict. Hail stones from two to two-and-a-half inches in circumference fell in torrents,…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 29 November 1856 · page 6
A deplorable accident has occurred on the line of railway between Antwerp and Ghent. The last train on Sunday night, convoying about 800 passengers from Antwerp, who were returning from the fetes on the…
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Empire · Saturday 6 December 1856 · page 4
On Saturday last, between 12 and 1 o'clock, the plains were swept by a gale of wind from the westward, which raged for upwards of half an hour with considerable fury, rendering locomotion, whether bipedal…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 December 1856 · page 8
A PUBLIC meeting of proprietors of l;and in this district was held on Thursday, pursuant to advertisement, at Mrs. Cornelius's Inn, Morpeth, for the conderation o fthe subject floods and drainage, and for…
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Empire · Monday 8 December 1856 · page 3
A public meeting of proprietors of land in this district was held on Thursday, pursuant to advertisement, at Mrs. Cornelious's Inn, Morpeth, for the consideration of the subject of floods and drainage, and for the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 December 1856 · page 4
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DOVER, September 28th, 5 p.m.—The equinoctial breezes have set in during the past week with unusual severity. Day by day they have increased, until last, night it blew a perfect gale of wind from S.S.E. It blew so hard from this quarter yesterday morning that…
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