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Floods & storms, 1874

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The Floods in the West

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 179

IN another column will be found full details of the disastrous floods in the Northern districts; we here give extracts from the Mudgee Times, showing that the West has not been exceptional to a like calamity…

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The Maitland Floods. (By Our Special Correspondent.) Wednesday, February 4th

Empire · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 4

The great flood being over, the inhabitants are endeavouring to restore something like order, and to compare notes. The damage done as far as can be learned is greater than was at first…

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Floods in the Hunter District. the Lower Hunter. (From Our Newcastle Correspondent.) January 29

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 22

All traffic on the line between Newcastle and West Maitland having been stopped on the Great Western Railway, from Monday to Thursday, gave rise to many rumours as to the damage done by the recent floods. I determined on…

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The Maitland Flood. (By Our Special Correspondent,) Wednesday, February 4th

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 33

The great flood being over, the inhabitants are endeavouring to restore something like order, and to compare notes. The damage done as far as can be learned is greater than was at first…

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Great Flood at Tamworth

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 22

IT is once more our sorrowful duty, says the Weekly News, to chronicle a disastrous overflow of the water-courses of the district; and although the losses caused thereby are not, fortunately, by any…

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Floods on the Castlereagh and Macquarie Rivers. (From Our Correspondent.) Gilgandra, 30th January, 1874

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 22

SINCE my last communication we had a "most disastrous flood on this river, attended with loss of human life and sheep in flocks. Pigs, goats, fowls, and stores, were soon floating on the raging…

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Flood in the Talbragar

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 22

A great quantity of ram must have fallen, says the Dubbo Dispatch of the 30th January, at the head of the Talbragar, for on Monday that river reached a greater height than ever before known. The…

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The Floods Beyond the Liverpool Range

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 23

Although the interruption in the running of the railway trains, renders it impossibe to get as much as usual of information from up the district, and from beyond the Liverpool Range, yet what we…

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The Storm at Peak Downs

Evening News · Monday 9 February 1874 · page 3
Also in Empire

WITH reference to the storm at Clermont, the P. D. Telegram of the 24th instant says:—The most violent tempest ever seen on Peak Downs passed over the district on Thursday…

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The Maitland Floods. Wednesday, February 4th

Evening News · Monday 9 February 1874 · page 4

The great flood being over, the inhabitants are endeavouring to restore something like order, and to compare notes. The damage done as far as can be learned is greater than was at first…

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Great Storm and Loss of Life

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1874 · page 3

A few days since a violent gale broke over the midland and northern parts of England At Sheffield the most serious results occurred. In, Trippett-lane a chinneystack fell, killing several people and injuring others…

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Great Storm and Loss of Life in England. (From the Home News.)

Empire · Friday 13 February 1874 · page 2

A few days since a violent gale broke over the midland and northern parts of England. At Sheeffield the most serious results occurred. In Trippett lane a chimney-stack fell, killing several people and injuring…

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Wreck of the Schooner Emily From Port Darwin for Adelaide. Death of a Tambaroora Miner on the Queensland Coast. Telegraph Station Stuck-up by Blacks. Floods at the Palmer. &c. &c. &c.j GULGONG

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1874 · page 2

The commission to inquire into the case of Mr. Tebbutt sits on Monday next. The escort left here, yesterday morning, with 2535 ozs 11 dwts 8 grs gold, with £1212 in…

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Destructive Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1874 · page 5

THE late floods in the Hunter and adjacent districts have been highly injurious to farmers and, settlers generally, the details of losses showing that in many cases everything in the shope of produce this season has been destroyed. We…

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Great Storm and Loss of Life

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 209

A few days since a violent gale broke over the midland and northern parts of England. At Sheffield the most serious results occurred. In Trippett-lane a chimneystack fell, killing several people and injuring others…

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Great Storm and Loss of Life in England. (From the Home News.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 10

A few days since a violent gale broke over the midland and northern parts of England. At Sheffield the most serious results occurred. In Trippett lane a chimney-stack fell, killing several people and injuring…

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Destructive Gale. Melancholy Loss of Life. Twenty-five Vessels Damaged

Evening News · Wednesday 18 February 1874 · page 3

FOR a longtime past we have enjoyed most excellent weather, the only fault found with it being that the drought was too prolonged, and that the crops were suffering in consequence. As the…

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Destructive Gale. Melancholy Loss of Life. Twenty-five Vessels Damaged. (From the New Zealand Herald.)

Empire · Wednesday 18 February 1874 · page 4

FOR a long time past we have enjoyed most excellent weather, the only fault found with it being that the drought was too prolonged, and that the crops were suffering in consequence. As the…

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Terrific Gale at Auckland.; Loss of Life, and 25 Vessels Damaged. (From the Weekly News, February 11.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1874 · page 6

As the afternoon of Saturday, the 7th instant, advanced, heavy squalls came from the south-west, with fast driving showers, and at times it appeared as if a heavy fall of min were to set in. The wind meanwhile kept up, and towards…

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