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Floods & storms, 1874

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Relief to the Sufferers by Floods in the Hunter District

Evening News · Thursday 19 February 1874 · page 2

WE have the satisfaction of announcing that, at a meeting of the Central Floods Belief Committee of Sydney, held this day. John Fairfax, Esq., in the chair, an application made by the Major (Mr. Dodds) of East Maitland, and…

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Relief to the Sufferers by Floods in the Hunter District

Evening News · Friday 20 February 1874 · page 2
Also in Empire

WE have the satisfaction of announcing that, at a meeting of the Central Floods Relief Committee of Sydney, held yesterday, J. Fairfax, Esq., in the chair, an application mode by the Mayor (Mr…

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Destructive Gale in New Zealand. (From the New Zealand Herald.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 33

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. Aa the…

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Destructive Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 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 thowing that in many cases everything in the shape of produce this season has been destroyed. We…

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Storms and Floods

Evening News · Monday 23 February 1874 · page 2

A SUCCESSION of severe storms from the south passed over the city on Sunday morning, and were accompanied by heavy torrents of rain, which out up the streets of the city to a considerable extent…

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Storms and Floods

Empire · Tuesday 24 February 1874 · page 2

A SUCCESSION of severe storms from the south passed over the city on Sunday morning, and were accompanied hy heavy torrents of rain, which cut up the streets of the city to a considerable extent,…

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Storms and Floods. NEWCASTLE. Tuesday, l.50 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 24 February 1874 · page 2

The weather was fine on Sunday, but rain set in at night, and continued heavily all day on Monday. It is now raining hard, and high floods are expected in the country…

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The Allahabad in a Storm

Evening News · Thursday 26 February 1874 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon a vessel in distress, making for this harbour, was signalled. Telegrams had already been received from Tauranga, stating that the Allahabad, ship, owned by Messrs. Thomas Stephenson and Son, of London,…

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Storms and Floods

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 9

A SUCCESSION of severe storms from the south passed over the city on Sunday morning, and were accompanied by heavy torrents of rain, which cut up the streets of the city to a considerable extent,…

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Storms in Teacups

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 290

"KEEPING the Peace," in the broadest and most familiar sense of the term, is not one of the least important amongst the moral duties devolving upon a good housewife. Much of the even working of her establishment depends…

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The Allahabad in a Storm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 31

On Wednesday afternoon a vessel in distress, making for this harbour, was signalled. Telegrams had already been re cived from Tauranga, stating that the Allahabad, ship, owned by Messrs. Thomas Stephenson and Son, of London,…

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The Floods Loss of Life at Liverpool

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 6

OUR correspondent says that on Sunday night the river rose faster than ever was known before. You could take a boat through the middle of the town. and one family living in…

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The Weather and Floods

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 277

MR. H. C. Russell, the Government Astronomer, writing to the Herald on the 25th instant, states that during the persistent southerly gale which has extended over the colony since Wednesday last, many…

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Equity Appeal. Flood V Monash and Others

Empire · Wednesday 25 March 1874 · page 3

The arguments on this appeal occupied the court all day with out terminating…

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Law Supreme Court.— Saturday. Sittings in Banco. Last Day of First Term. (Before their Honors the Chief Justice, Sir James Martin; Mr. Justice Hargrave, and Mr. Justice Faucett.) Equity Appeal Judgment. Flood V. Monash and Others

Evening News · Monday 30 March 1874 · page 4

This was an important equity appeal case, affecting the law of vendors sad purchasers of lands purchased under the Crows Lands Alienation , Act of 1861. The appeal was against a decree of…

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Law. Supreme Court.—saturday, March 28. Last Day of First Term, 1874. BEFORE Sir James Martin (Chief Justice), Mr. Justice HARGRAVE, and Mr. Justice Faugett. Flood V. Monash and Others—judgment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 March 1874 · page 7

This had been an appeal from a decree of the Primary Judge in Equity (Mr. Justice Hargrave) dimissing plaintiff's bill, with costs, a suit to establish the priority of a mortgage, and further charges held by plaintiff over…

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The Weather. King-street Flooded

Evening News · Wednesday 8 April 1874 · page 2

ABOUT 1 o'clock this morning a remarkable change in the weather took place, and a few slight showers fell up to between half-past 2 and 3 o'clock, when the rain fell in heavy torrents. At…

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The Weather. King-street Flooded

Empire · Thursday 9 April 1874 · page 3

ABOUT 1 o'clock yesterday morning a remarkable change in the weather took place, and a few slight showers fell up to between half-past 2 ana 3 o'clock, when the rain fell in heavy torrents. At…

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Fatal Flood at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria

Evening News · Wednesday 15 April 1874 · page 3

THE Bacchus Marsh Express states that the heaviest flood seen in Bacchus Harsh for twelve years past, happened on the night of the 2nd April, between 6 and 12, and an infant aged two months, named…

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