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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1875

171 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 9

French Flood Relief

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 26

The Mansion House Fund in aid of the sufferers by the floods in France has reached £12,600, not including £2000 received by the French ConsulGeneral in London, and what has been Collected by…

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Arrival of the Mail Via Torres Straits. the Floods in France

Evening News · Monday 13 September 1875 · page 2

Nearly twenty thousand pounds, including a cheque for h hundred guiness from the Prince and Princess of Wales have been subscribed in London on behalf of the people who have been ruined by…

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Storms and Floods in England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 6

FROM all parts we hear of inundations, destruction of crops, damage to property, with serious loss of life. But the most serious accounts reach us from the neighbourhood of Monmouth, where, as may be readily imagined, so great…

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Terrible Floods in Wales and the West of England. Great Loss of Life and Distruction of Property. (From the London Daily News, July 19.)

Evening News · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 5

[?] heavier than in other districts, many portions of Devon, Cornwall, and Gloucestershire being covered to s depth of several feet, la the Dean…

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News by the Torres Straits Mail. the Floods in France

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 26

Nearly twenty thousand pounds, including a cheque for a hundred guineas from the Prince and Princess of Wales, have been subscribed in London on behalf of the people who have been ruined by…

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Terrible Floods in Wales and the West of England. (From the London Daily News, July 19.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 27

In the West of England the deluge has been heavier than in other districts, many portions of Devon, Cornwall, and Gloucestershire being covered to a depth of several feet. In the Dean…

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Floods in the South-western Districts. (From the Riverine Herald, September 4.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 September 1875 · page 2

ABOUT a week ago it was thought that the flood waters from the Ovens district would swamp the town, but, howover, those opinions have been proved, fortunately, to be rather overdrawn. Later runs have swelled both the…

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Flood at Echuca

Evening News · Tuesday 21 September 1875 · page 5

Telegrams published in the Helbourne papers give the following particulars of the flood at Echuca:-The River Murray is again very high. The water is backed up the Campaspe so far as to…

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Continental News. [From Our Correspondent "Stella.] Paris, July 16, 1875. [?]Loods and Storms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 6

WHAT the Sultan of Zanzibar will think of this country, if rain and fog continue to plague us as they have been doing through the whole of this summer, it is difficult to imagine. The horrible weather seems to throw the heaviest of "wot…

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Prance. Origin of the Floods

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 5

The Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph writes on June 29:—We begin at length to get the information for which people have been asking this week past…

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Floods and Gales. London, September 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 October 1875 · page 5

Destructive gales and floods have occurred in Ireland and the north of England…

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Floods and Gales. London, September 29

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 433

Destructive gales and floods have occurred in Ireland and the north of England…

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France. Flood Subscriptions

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 5

His Holiness the Pope has sent Madame de MacMahon the sum of 35,000 francs, for the benefit of the victims of the late inundation in France. Her Majesty, the…

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The French Floods—exciting Accounts

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 27

The disaster caused by the inundations are still the most important items in our daily budgets of news, and there seems to be a sort of fascination in these dreadful details. Let me give an example…

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Floods and Gales. London, September 29

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 October 1875 · page 458

Destructive gales and floods have occurred in Ireland and the north of England…

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Victoria. the Floods in France

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 October 1875 · page 14

On Sunday last sermons were (says the Advocate) preached in the Metropolitan Church, Eastern Hill, and St. Francis's Church, Lonsdale street, in aid of the relief of the…

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Lessons From the Floods. (From the Times, July 19.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 October 1875 · page 6

IN bygone days, even now and then there was a cry that judgments were abroad. Prudent people, however even in those days, set about averting the impending storm, having at least the sense to see they…

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Hail Storm

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 October 1875 · page 2

Last Wednesday afternoon, a rather brisk hail storm passed over the North end of Parramatta, but, though it [?] barrow loads on the roadside for some hours, did…

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Heavy Storms at Goonoo Goonoo

Evening News · Wednesday 27 October 1875 · page 5

At Goonoo Goonoo, about 7 a.m., on Wednesday the 20th October, a tremendous thunder clap was followed almost instaneously by a vivid lightning flash, when the words "knock off" sounded through the…

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Floods in England. London, October 26

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 558

The serious and destructive floods which have occurred in England are now partially subsiding…

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