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189 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 10
Old Neptune fifty fathoms deep, Sat surly on his throne, And thundered, as he picked his teeth With a grinning shark's jawbone, " Now, by the tail of Jonah's whale,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two persons were fined for drunkenness. Philip Fi[?]ger was ordered to pay a fine of 40s. or be imprisoned for one month, for having assaulted Annie Eisen[?]nager…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A terrific gale set in on the night of Sunday the 10th instant, and continued with unabated fury during the whole of Monday, proving very destructive to property. It came up so unexpectedly, and so…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following telegrams have been received by the Inspector-General of Police:-"Gundagai, september 23.-Flood in river at Gandagai 23 feet. Big floed 1870 at Gundagai, 38 feet Tumut river falling; Yass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrific gale set in on the night of Sunday the 10th instant, and continued with unabated fun during the whole of Monday, proving very destructive to property. It came up so unexpectedly, and so…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Friday, the 22nd September, the Tumut River came down in a higher flood than has been seen here for over twenty years. Rain fell on Thursday with steady persistency, a strong wind set in after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Friday, the 22nd September, the Tumut River came down in a nigher flood than has been seen here for over twenty years. Rain fell on Thursday with steady persistency's a strong wind set in after nightfall, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. H. C. Russell, Colonial Astronomer, on Saturday thus writes to the Echo:— "The velocity recorded by our anemometer on the morning of the 11th. instant surprised me much. Like…
Continued on Trove, page 461 →THERE has been a considerable amount of scepticism as to the reported velocity of the gale during short periods in the night of the 11th ultimo, and tome of it naturally found expression in…
Continued on Trove, page 464 →NOT since the yea? 1851 has Tumut been visited by such a floodas that which occurred here on Friday last, the 22nd instant Seldom indeed has a flood como with less warning, tho sudden…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →ON Friday, the 22nd September, the Tumut River came down in a higher flood than has been seen here foy over twenty years. Rain fell on Thursday with steady persistency; a strong wind set in after nightfall, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The intense heat which has prevailed all over England for some days past culminated on August 15 in a storm in the Midlands. The great heat experienced for the last few days continued until the above date, when a most welcome…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Cambridge during a thunderstorm yesterday, a house was struck at Fen Ditton, near Cambridge. The tables and pictures were torn to pieces, a chimney stack was hurled to the opposite side of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the most severe thundersto[?] that has been experienced this [?] passed over the Parramatta River yesterday afternoon. The storm [?]menced at 4 p.m. with a viol[?] from south-west…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Cambridge during a thunderstorm yesterday, a house was struck at Fen Ditton, near Cambridge. The tables and pictures were torn to jaeces, a chimney stack was hurled to the opposite side of…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →On Monday afternoon Gundagai was visited by a heavy thunderstorm, which although short in duration, was very severe, and in very close proximity to the township. At about 3 p.m. very heavy clouds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Respecting the floods in Gippsland, a correspondent writes to the Mercury, stating that the country north of the Avon it one sheet of water. From Scott a, sixteen miles this side of Bairnsdale, to Deighton the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday last, between two and three o'clock p.m., a thunderstorm of unusual violence passed over the Murrurundi district. The heat in the former part of the day was intense, and about two o'clock the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WRITING from Emu Creek, a correspondent of the Toowoomba Chronicle sa[?]s:—The crops here have suffered very much from the unusually henvy hail storms of the 23rd and 24th ultimo, and the prospects…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A telegram from Philadelphia in the Times, dated September 20, speaks of an equinoctial storm of great severity which occurred on the 17th September along the American coast. More than 100 vessels…
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