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THE accounts from all quarters tend to show the extensive destruction to property occasioned by the gale of Wednesday, and, unfortunately, the loss of two more lives, and injury to many persons. The vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the Channel fleet has experienced one of the heaviest gales that have visited our coasts for many years, a short description of this revolving storm and of the well-being and doings of the fleet may not be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DURING Tuesday and Wednesday last the Great Eastern has been most sharply tested, and has had to weather as heavy a gale as has swept into the harbour of Holyhead for years past. Most fortunately, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DURING the past two months the atmosphere has been more than usually surcharged with eleotricity, nearly every district throughout the colony has been visited more or less with violent thunderstorms, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The special correspondent of the Times, who appears to have taken up his residence on board the big ship, has published a most graphic account of the perils to which she was exposed during the memorable gale. He…
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →THAT man is said to win who leaves nothing to accident; in other words, he will conquer in the battle of life who concontrates his attention upon the natural laws of the work that he intends to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHEN Mr. Bright is asked whether he will vote against the re-imposition of "the hateful and intolerable income-tax," he answers that the House of Commons is a very bad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fon the past three days, the atmosphere has been very oppressive in and around Sydney. On Wednesday last, it commenced mining hard and continued throughout the night, accompanied with hravy guets of wind; and Thursday morning was generally…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Friday, Feb 10, will henceforth be memorable as having ushered in the most terrific and most protracted storm that has been experienced in Sydney for the last thirty years. The tremendous peals of thunder, the awfully vivid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE violent thunderstorm of yesterday and the heavy rains of that and the preceding day, have occasioned very considerable damage throughout the city. The rains displayed their violence, making deep ruts in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A GENTLEMAN who had occasion to visit Camden on Saturday upon business furnished us with the following particulars of the flood on his return in the evening. He started for Camden by the quarter to seven train. On the other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHEN we arose from our slumbers on Saturday morning and looked out from our dormitory window, to our great surprise we found the river running at a most rapid rate, and risen several feet above its ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Thursday morning it commenced raining slightly, and towards night it came down in perfect torrents, and continued so all night, with a strong S.E. wind. The river rose rapidly on Friday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ST. MARY'S, South Creek, February 11.—We have experienced a very heavy flood in the Nepean River, such as has not been seen for many years. At the time of writing (Saturday evening) the splendind bridge, recently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FROM the continued rain on Sunday night, the flood again rose yesterday at the Menangle some six or seven feet, but is now rapidly falling. Yesterday the weather was showery, and during the night we…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In addition to the particulars given in our telegram of yesterday, we now add the following from Saturuay's Goulburn Chronicle. That journal says: We are in the midst now of one of the most extensive floods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FROM all parts of the Southern interior there are reports of ravages committed by floods, the result of the recent heavy rains. At Windsor, the Fitzroy, bridge was covered with water, the river having risen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE regret it is not in our power to chronicle the cessation of the severe storm, the commencement of which we noticed in our last. So far from cessation, there has not been even a lull of more thin a fow hours duration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We regret it is not in our power to chronicle the cessation of the severe storm, the commencement of which we noticed in our last So far from abating, there has not been even a lull of more than a few…
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