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Floods & storms, 1870

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Terrific Storm at Aden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 August 1870 · page 6

The Times of India contains the following details of the following details of the storm at Aden reported here by the captain of the Levant:— Aden, May 31.—The weather at Aden, which had for…

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Terrific Storm at Aden

Sydney Mail · Saturday 20 August 1870 · page 2

THE Times of India contains the following details of the storm at Aden reported here by the captain of the Levant:— Aden, May 31.—The weather at Aden, which had for…

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Telegrams, This Day. Great Floods At the Junction of the Darling and the Murray

Evening News · Saturday 20 August 1870 · page 2

Telegram from Police Magistrate, Wentworth, to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary. Wentworth, 17th August, 1870. I was absent at Neilpo when the telegram arrived…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. [From Our Correspondent.] Great Floods at the Junction of the Darling and the Murray. Telegram from Police Magistrate, Wentworth, to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary. Wentworth, 17th August, 1870

Empire · Monday 22 August 1870 · page 2

I was absent at Neilpo when the telegram arrived, seeking information about the snow water and taking observations on the state of the country. Mr. Lockhart says the heaviest water will reach…

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The Great Storm in Melbourne

Empire · Tuesday 23 August 1870 · page 4

THE storm which swept over a great part of the continent on Wednesday, the 10th August, was one of almost unprecedented violence, and attended with disastrous effects, and even loss of life. Out of many…

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The Great Storm at Melbourne

Evening News · Tuesday 23 August 1870 · page 3

THE storm which s[?]pt over a great part of the continent on Wednesday, the 16th August, was one of almost unprecedented violence, and attended with disastrous effects, and even loss of life. Out of many…

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A Severe Storm in Victoria

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 August 1870 · page 5

THE storm which swept over a great part of the continent on Wednesday afternoon was one of almost unprecedented violence, and attended with disastrous effects, and even loss of life. Out of many we (Daily Telegraph) collect the…

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The-flood at Wentworth

Evening News · Thursday 25 August 1870 · page 3

THe Adelaide Observer contains some further accounts of the floods of the Darling and Murray. There have been grave fears, says our contemporary, felt for the safety of Wentworth, owing to its position at the…

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The Flood at Wentworth

Empire · Thursday 25 August 1870 · page 4

THE Adelaide Observer contains some further accounts of the floods of the Darling and Murray. There have been grave fears, says our contemporary, felt for the safety of Wentworth, owing to its position at the…

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The Great Storm in Victoria

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 August 1870 · page 22

THE storm which swept over a great part of the continent on Wednesday, the 16th August, was one of almost unprecedented violence, and attended with disastrous effects, and even loss of life. Out of many…

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A Severe Storm in Victoria

Sydney Mail · Saturday 27 August 1870 · page 9

THE storm which swept over a great part of the continent on Wednesday afternoon was one of almost unprecedented violence, and attended with disastrous effects, and even loss of life. Out of many we (Daily Telegraph) collect the…

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Telegrams. Great Floods at the Junction of the Darling and the Murray

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 August 1870 · page 4

Telegram from Police Magistrate, Wentworth, to the Colonial Secretary, Sydney. Wentworth, 17th August. I was absent at Neilpo when the telegram arrived,…

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Storms and Loss of Life

Evening News · Thursday 1 September 1870 · page 3

The extreme sultriness of the weather during the week ending July 9, has culminated in thunderstorms, which have during the lost forty-eight hours visited numerous districts and covered a large area of country…

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Storms and Loss of Life

Empire · Tuesday 6 September 1870 · page 4

The extreme sultriness of the weather during the week ending July 9, has culminated in thunderstorms, which have during the lost forty-eight hours visited numerous districts and covered a large area of country…

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Storms and Loss of Life

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 23

The extreme sultriness of the weather during the week ending July 9, has culminated in thunderstorms, which have during the last forty-eight hours visited numerous districts and covered a large area of country…

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Grimley V. Flood

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 14

This was a demurrer to a declaration in as action for breach of agreement. Mr. Butler appeared in support of the demurrer, and Mr. Darley in rapport of the declaration…

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Floods in the Hunter River

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 5

THE Hunter River Floods Commission, in their progress report to the Governor, state-though they do not intend to report finally until they have given every point the fullest consideration, and until they are in a…

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Floods in the Hunter River

Evening News · Monday 12 September 1870 · page 3
Also in Empire

THE Hunter River Floods Commission, in their progress report to the Governor, state-though they do not intend to report finally until they have given every point the fullest consideration, and until they are in a…

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Floods in the Hunter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 September 1870 · page 2

THE following is a progress report of the Hunter River Flood Commission, and it deals with what in the opinion of the Commissioners is the more urgent part of the question, namely, the protection of the bank of the River Hunter at…

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