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53 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3
About six o'clock on Wednesday evening a severe thunderstorm, accompanied with vivid lightning, and heavy fall of hail and rain, passed over Sydney. Shortly afterwards the wind shifted…
Continued on Trove, page 434 →ON Monday evening our city was visited with the most terrifie phenomenon ever known in this or perhaps any other country. For several hours previous there were indications of a storm all around the horizon, and at ten minutes past 5…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The exceeding and unusual mildness of the winter season, up to the last few days, has or some time been the theme of wonder and comment amongst the residents of this district interested in the character of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To foretell the weather is as popular an achievement with the general public as to foretell the fall of the Papacy is with a section of the religious world, and in both departments of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Wednesday, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a light rain set in, and it fell steadily, but gently, all the afternoon. At sundown it moderated for a brief space, and then began to descend more heavily, and attended with more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although the present flood in the Hunter has done a great deal of damage, and entaild much suffering upon many of the settlers, it did not attain that height, nor cause so much devastation as was anticipated white the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The year 1860 will be a remarkable one in the annale of the colony. Some three months ago we were experlencing a drough nearly uparalleded in the history of teh equntry and we are now battling with the other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Armidale Express reports that heavy rains there had caused a flood in the Armidal Creek. The rain commenced with a thunderstorm on Tuesday evening 10th, and then continued at first gently, and then…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE river has been falling steadily since our last issue, and on Wednesday evening had gone down altogether about fourteen or fifteen feet, being still about nine or ten feet above the tidal level. The back water forming small lakes at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TUESDAY.—A brighter and yet a gloomier day than this never dawned upon the city of Newcastle. The shops were closed, business was suspended, and all combined to do honour to the memory of the dead. The feeling of pain was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The river has been falling steadily since our last issue, and yesterday evening had gone down altogether about fourteen or fifteen feet, being still about nine or ten feet above the tidal level. The back water forming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Monday evening our city was visited with the most terrific phenomenon ever known in this or perhaps any other country. For several hours previous there were indications of a storm all around the horizon, and at ten minutes past 5…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON Wednesday, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a light rein set in, and it fell steadily, but gently, all the afternoon. At sundown it moderated for a brief space, and then began to descend more heavily, and attended with more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The year 1866 will be a remarkable one in the annals of the colony. Some three months ago we were experiencring a drought nearly unparalelled in the history of the country, and we are now battling with the other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His our painful duty to record in this month's summary, some of the most frightul disasters that have ever occurred in the Australian colonies, and which have spread a gloom over New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is many years since that portion of the East Coast of Australia lying betwoen Twofold Bay on the South and the Clarence River on the North was visited with a gale so terrific and prolonged as that which set in from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JULY 12TH.—During all last night and the greatest portion of to-day there was a continuous tempest of rain. There were several severe squalls of wind, and this afternoon it is blowing a perfect hurricane from the south-east. The river…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE unusual rapidity with which the river Hunter rose last week to flood level has been the subject of general remark. Each flood of the many that the district has suffered since 1857 has had its distinguishing peculiarities,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following extract from a letter, dated the 17th July, addressed to a gentlemen in Sydney by a magistrate on the Manning—River, discloses further calamities resulting from the late storm:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It has pleased the Almighty Disposer of human events, to visit the Munning with the most fearful display of HIs pawer it has ever been our lot to witness. A week aog, people spoke of the great flood of 1857 as…
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