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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1875

171 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 9

French Flood Relief Fund

Evening News · Monday 19 July 1875 · page 3

The two admirable concerts given last Saturday in the Exhibition building, with the object of benefiting the French Flood Relief Fund, were on the whole highly successful. It will be remembered that…

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Disastrous Floods in Wales. London, July 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 July 1875 · page 5

Incessant rain has fallen causing disastrous floods in Wales and the West of England. JULY l8. The floods in the Wost of England and…

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Aid to the Sufferers by the Floods in the South of France

Evening News · Tuesday 20 July 1875 · page 2

[We have received this day from M. G. E Simon, the French Consul, a letter of which the following is a translation.] To the Editor…

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The Floods in France. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 July 1875 · page 7

MONSIEUR L' EDITEUR,—A P heure quilestles Irromdes du Midi de la France savent, grace au telegraphe, qu 'au bout du monde les habitants de la Nouvelle Galle du Sud on ete des premiers A compatir a leur detresse; et, au fond…

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A Coalpit Flooded, and Supposed Loss of Four Lives

Evening News · Wednesday 21 July 1875 · page 3

A deplorable accident occurred at Barrowshaw Colliery, Side-of-Moor, Oldham, on the 26th April. The pit has been in existence for over twenty years, and is 110 yards deep, and is worked by…

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Earthquakes, Storms, Explosions, and Other Disasters

Evening News · Thursday 22 July 1875 · page 2

Details are arriving of the earthquakes in Asia Minor early ia May. Several. villages were destroyed, and over 2000 lives lost. A severe storm occurred at Valparaiso on May 24th, causing fifty…

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Arrival of the English Mail Via Suez, at Adelaide. the Growth of the Colonies. Sir George Bowen. Australian Silk Worms in Italy. O'connor and the Attempt to Shoot the Queen. the French Flag and Kidnapping. Proposed Grand Banquet at Guildhall. Public Breakfast to a Temperance Advocate. Grand Conversazione of Civil Engineers. the Arctic Expedition. a Cremation Society Formed. Signor Salvini, the Italian Tragedian. Grand French Military Review. Terrible Earthquake in New Granada. the Disastrouc Floods in France. Moody and Sankey, &c., &c., &c, Wednesday, 3.41 p.m

Evening News · Thursday 22 July 1875 · page 2

The mail steamer Pera, Captain Methven, Was sighted at Gleneig at 10.25 a.m. after a splendid passage. PASSENGERS…

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Earthquakes, Storms, Explosions, and Other Disasters

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 6

Details are arriving of the earthquakes in Asia Minor early in May. Several villages were destroyed, and over 2000 lives lost. A severe storm occurred at Valparaiso on May 24th, causing fifty…

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Disastrous Floods in Wales. London, July 17

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 118

Incessant rain has fallen causing disastrous floods in Wales and the West of England. JULY 18. The floods in the West of England and…

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A Coalpit Flooded, and Supposed Loss of Four Lives

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 26

A deplorable accident occurred at Barrowshaw Colliery, Side-of-Moor, Oldham, on the 26th April. The pit has been in existence for over twenty years, and is 110 yards deep, and is worked by…

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H.M.S Dido in a Storm

Evening News · Tuesday 10 August 1875 · page 4

H.M.S. Dido arrived at Wellington, from Auckland, on the 17th, after having been fourteen days on the way. Her log shows that she encountered a succession of most furious gales during the greater…

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Arrival of the English Mail via Torres straits. [ A portion of the following appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.] "Proceedings in the House of Commons. the King of Burmah and the Indian Government. Alarming Floods in France. Her Majesity the Queen. the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. Breach of Promise Case. Large Failures Great Fire in Dublin. Brisbane. Tuesday, 3.45 p.m

Evening News · Wednesday 11 August 1875 · page 2

The English mail brings dates, via Brindisi, to the 25th June. Lord Strathnairn's motion in reference to the correspondence on competitive examination for the…

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French Flood Relief

Evening News · Thursday 12 August 1875 · page 2

Last evening a meeting, under the auspices of the Trades and Labour Council, was held in the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, with the object of devising means to Afford relief to the sufferers by the recent…

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Violent Hail Storm

Evening News · Tuesday 17 August 1875 · page 5

On June 16, a thunder and hail storm of extra­ordinary violence burst over the north of Scotland. In some parts of Fifeshire hail lay to a depth of three inches, and in the Glenshee district…

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Arrival, the Mail Via Torres Straits, Floods at Toulouse .-Great Loss of Life

Evening News · Tuesday 17 August 1875 · page 5

Toulouse, June 25, Morning.-One hundred dead bodies have up to the present been found in the houses fleeded by the inundation, but left standing. It is supposed that many people perished in…

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Violent Hail Storm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 August 1875 · page 27

On June 16, a th under and hail storm of extraordinary violence burst over the north of Scotland. In some parts of Fifeshire hail lay to a depth of three inches, and in the Glenshee district…

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The Barque Norham Castle in a Gale Off Newcastle

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 21 August 1875 · page 4

THE eastern coast of Australia is generally visited by very heavy gales during the early part of the month of July, in one of which the barque Norham Castle, about 700 tons,…

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The Great Floods in France. (From the Correspondent of the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 August 1875 · page 7

ACCOUNTS received from Toulouse, though at present [?]prefect, show that the calamity is far more terrible than [?] as at first supposed, and it is now believed that some [?]reds of persons have perished. Twenty thousand…

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Bush Travelling in New South Wales—cobb's Coach Crossing a Flooded River

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 21 August 1875 · page 8

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Bush Travelling in New South Wales.—cobb's Coach Crossing a Flooded River

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 21 August 1875 · page 18

OUR illustration is one of a frequent occurrence in this colony in the season when heavy rains are prevalent. Rivers become swollen and very often impassable. In many cases the coach horses have to swim, to the great discomfort…

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