Disastrous Floods
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 November 1860 · page 5
SOME portions of the districts to the south of Sydney have been visited during the last few days with a return of the heavy and continuous rains which, in April and July last, caused such extensive damage…
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Empire · Monday 19 November 1860 · page 4
WE are threatened with a heavy flood. The Hawkesbury River and South Creek are rising rapidly, and the Battlers, in the greatest consternation, are removing their families and their stock to places of safety…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Windsor. Disastrous Flood. [From Our Correspondent.]
Empire · Tuesday 20 November 1860 · page 5
YOUR readers are already apprised by. my telegram, hurriedly despatched on Saturday evening,of the lamentable fact that this district has been visited with another Hood. The weather during. the past week was very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Weather, the Floods, and the Railways
Empire · Tuesday 20 November 1860 · page 8
THE Southern districts lying between the coast and the great dividing range have again been visited by a flood scarcely less disastrous in its consequences than the floods of April and July, For same days past, as our…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disastrous Floods. the Hawkesbury. [From Our Correspondent.]
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 November 1860 · page 13
THE FLOODS, Monday.âThis morning the water had risen to within fifteen inches of the great 1857 flood, being fully eighteen inches higher than the last with which our unfortunate district was visited. The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Floods. Parramatta. [From Our Correspondent.]
Empire · Wednesday 21 November 1860 · page 5
NOVEMBER 19TH.—During the past three days we have been visited with a heavy fall of rain, such as we have not had for many years for quantity and duration. The lower part of Macquarie-street was a perfect river—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in the Braidwood District. [From a Correspondent.]
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 November 1860 · page 5
HEAVY rains and floods have again taken place in the Braidwood district, and in one instance a melancholy loss of life has to be recorded—an intelligent youth, of fourteen years of age, named Samuel Griffin,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods
Sydney Mail · Saturday 24 November 1860 · page 4
SOME portions of the districts to the south of Sydney have been visited during the last few days with a return of the heavy and continuous rains which, in April and July last, caused such extensive damage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods. Braidwood
Empire · Monday 26 November 1860 · page 5
THE following is from the Braidwood Observer of November 21st:—" Since Wednesday last we, have had an incessent and heavy fall of rain, which has been general throughout the district, and attended in one melaneholy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Flood at Melbourne. Melbourne, Monday Evening
Empire · Tuesday 11 December 1860 · page 4
We are visited with a great flood, lt bas been raining since Saturday night, and it still continues. All the low parts of Melbourne were submerged yesterday, and a great quantity of goods destroyed. Considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Severe Storm and Flood in Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 December 1860 · page 4
ONE of the severest storms which has visited Melbourne for many years took place on Saturday night and yesterday, and the season of the year, when such an occurrence might be the least expected, made it the more remarkable. Early on Saturday evening the…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 15 December 1860 · page 1
ONE of the severest storms which has visited Melbourne for many years took place on Saturday night and yesterday, and the season of the year, when such an occurrence might be the least expressed, made it the more remarkable. Early on Saturday evening the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Law of Storms. (From the Times, October 16.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 December 1860 · page 3
YESTERDAY we gave an account of a hurricane that has lately swept the outlying islet of St. Kilda, in the Hebrides, and now a letter from an officer on the spot is placed before our readers. It appears by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Gale and Floods in America
Empire · Friday 28 December 1860 · page 8
THE Saint Louis correspondent of the San Franciso Herald, writing on the 22nd September, says:—The New Orleans Crescent, of September 19th, gives full partioulars of the late terrible gale on the Gulf shore, of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Law of Storms
Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 December 1860 · page 7
YESTERDAY we gave an account of a hurricane that has lately swept the outlying islet of St. Kilda in the Hebrides, and now a letter from an officer on the spot is placed before our readers. It appears by…
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