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Floods & storms, 1872

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Floods and Loss of Life in New England. (From the Inverell Courier, December 4.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 22

THE Weather in this district since our last has been of a most exceptional and undesirable character, rain being the order of both day and night, alternated with periods of oppressive heat, and its remedial successor in the…

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Breach of Promise—action for £5000. a Publican Stabbed by a Jealous Husband. Frightful Floods at Bathurst. Delay of the Mails. Kelso Submerged. Anticipated Destruction of Crops. Opening of the Melbourne Woollen Factory. Apprehension of the Pen-tridge Escapes. Parliament and Press Cricket Match, Melbourne. Railway Accident in Victoria. Ministerial Dinner at Mel-bourne. Severe Floods at Mudgee. Locusts in the Streets of Adelaide. Sales of South Australian Wheat. Latest Commercial, &c., &o., &c. MELBOURNE. Saturday, 7.55 p.m

Evening News · Monday 16 December 1872 · page 2

The Melbourne woollen manufactory was formally opened to-day. The escaped prisoners from Pentridge were found on the roof of the police station…

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Thursday's Storm in Melbourne. Damage by Flood and Lightning

Evening News · Tuesday 17 December 1872 · page 3

ON Thursday morning a storm burst over the city of Melbourne and its environs that, for its violence and the suddenness with which it [?] in flood, has not been paralleled for years. The morning, reports…

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Floods and Loss of Life at Mudgee and Gulgong

Evening News · Tuesday 17 December 1872 · page 3

Our correspondent, writing from Mudgee informs as that on Friday afternoon last the sky was overcast with heavy black clouds, the lightning and thunder being very severe. Very little nun fell in the township on…

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Arrival of the Parana (s)FROM Hongkong at Adelaide. the New Bishop of Madagascar Blondin for Australia. Illness of Mr. Spurgeon. Vice-regal Reception at , Bombay. Riots in China. Wreck of the Hokitika Schooner.-the Crew Saved. Seduction of Females in Melbourne. Heavy Floods at Bathurst and Young. Accident at Hay. Latest Commercial, &c., &c., &c. MELBOURNE. Monday, 7.53 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 17 December 1872 · page 2

The Hokitika, schooner, coal laden, from Newcastle to the Mauritius, has been wrecked off cape Leeowin. The crew found their way to Sing George's Sound…

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Flood and Loss of Life in the Mudgee District. [From Our Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 December 1872 · page 3

INTELLIGENCE has reached this place that a terrific storm of rain occurred at Cunninghame's Creek, on the Sydney Road, on last Friday afternoon, resulting, unfortunately, in the loss of one lite and a considerable quantity of…

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Thursday's Storm in Melbourne

Empire · Wednesday 18 December 1872 · page 2

ON Thursday morning a storm burst over the city of Melbourne and its environs that, for its violenco and the suddenness with which it culminated in a flood, has not boen paralleled for years. The morning, reports…

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Floods and Loss of Life at Mudgee and Gulgong

Empire · Wednesday 18 December 1872 · page 2

Our correspondent, writing from Mudgee, informs us that on Friday afternoon last the sky was overcast with heavy black clouds, the lightning and thunder being very severe. Very little rain fell in the township on…

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Prorogation of the Victorian Parliament. Valedictory Address to the Governor. Extraordinary Hallucination of Mr. Aspinall, the Barrister. Gale in the Bay. Suicide Through Jealousy. Betting on the Sydney Cup. Overland Telegraph Line Interrupted. the Queensland Loan. the Kidnapped Islanders. Mr. Todd and the Overland Line. Latest Commercial, &c., &., &c. MELBOURNE. Tuesday, 10.40 p.m

Evening News · Wednesday 18 December 1872 · page 2

Parliament was prorogued to-day with more than the usual formalities, valedictory addresses from both Houses being presented to his Excellency Viscount Canterbury in view of…

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Terrific Flood at Cunningham's Creek. One Man Drowned. Three Loaded Waggons Washed Away

Empire · Thursday 19 December 1872 · page 4

THE following are the full particulars of the late floods at Mudgee, as reported by the Times:— We have to report a fearful accident which took place at Cunninghame's Creek on Friday afternoon last, by…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable News from London to Dec 17. Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister's Bill of Victoria. a Man with Three Wives Arrested at Echuca. Three Boys Drowned at Bendigo. Corporation "Testimonial to Lord Canterbury. Latest Stock and Wool Sales at Melbourne. Severe Storms in South Australia. Gulgong. Thursday, 10.2 p.m

Evening News · Thursday 19 December 1872 · page 2

The fortnightly escort takes down 6838 ozs of gold. The fine weather already set in has allowed the resumption of mining operations on this…

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Terrific Flood at Cunningham's Creek. One Man Browned. Three Loaded Waggons Washed Away

Evening News · Friday 20 December 1872 · page 3

THE following are the full particulars of the late floods at Mudgee, as reported by the Times:- We have to report a fearful accident which took place at Cunninghams's Creek on Friday afternoon last, by…

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Thursday's Storm in Melbourne

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 December 1872 · page 6

On Thursday morning a storm burst over the city of Melbourne and its environs that, for its violence and suddenness with which it culminated in a flood, has not been paralleled for…

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The Floods in the Interior

Empire · Monday 23 December 1872 · page 4

OUR correspondents, telegraphic and otherwise, have supplied particulars of the storms and floods in some of the Northern and Western districts. Our Bathurst telegram…

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A Miner Killed at Sandhurst. Daylight Robbery by Melbourne Larikins. Committal of the Sandhurst Mine Robbers. News From the Roper River. Sentence the Carl Manslaughter Case Deferred. Madame De Beaumont Absconded. Italian Opera Company. Close of the Gladstanes' Season. Dismasted Ship at Eden. the Solferino Reefs. Calamitous Floods at Inverell Yield of Queensland Quartz. Melbourne Failure. Melbourne Cattle, Wool, inc. Latest Commercial and Mining, &c., &c., &c. MELBOURNE. Monday [?] p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 24 December 1872 · page 2

A miner named Jones has been killed by falling down a shaft at the Golden Fleece claim, Sandhurst. Four larrikins gagged and robbed a man in…

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The Floods Around Wellington

Empire · Tuesday 24 December 1872 · page 3

DURING the past mo[?]th we have had a succession of floods, and the looses sustained by the farmers and others resident here, have been incalculable. The crops in the first instances were considerably injured by the…

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The Floods around Wellington

Evening News · Thursday 26 December 1872 · page 3

DURING the past month we have had a succession of floods, and the losses sustained by the farmers and others resident here, have been incalculable. The crops in the first instances were considerably injured by the…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Message. [Per Anglo-australian Press Telegram Agency.] News from London to Dec. 24. Another Advance in Copper. European Affairs Quiet. Great Floods in England. Lodged in London 1.52 p.m , December 25. Received in Sydney 7.11 p m., December 28

Evening News · Friday 27 December 1872 · page 2

Copper, £91 per ton; market strong. Tin market firm. Straits tin £137 per ton. In France and throughout the European continent generally matters are at present…

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The Floods around Wellington

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 December 1872 · page 15

DURING the past month we have had a succession of floods, and the losses sustained by the farmers and others resident here, have been incalculable. The crops in the first instances were considerably injured by the…

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Destructive Floods in tho Northern Districts. INVERELL. December 28

Evening News · Monday 30 December 1872 · page 3

WE have been visited with a flood, unknown for its [?] and destructive consequences, even to that old authority, " the oldest inhabitant," even though his residence extends over a period of thirty years. Never…

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