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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1877

123 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 7

Telegrams This Day. Terrific Storm at Goulburn. GOULBURN. Saturday. 3.30 p.m

Evening News · Monday 17 December 1877 · page 2

A terrific storm occurred here last night, its violence being unprecedented. The rain fell in sheets, and the lightning and thunder were terrible. A house of Rossville estate was struck by the…

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Great Storm at Brisbane. Saturday, 10.30 a.m

Evening News · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 5

The damage to properly by the storm last night was very great. On the Town Half side of Queen-street there was scarcely a single pone of glass left. All of the churches and public buildings have been…

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Terrific Storm in Brisbane. [By Telegraph.] [From Our Own Correspondent.] Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 5

SHORTLY after 4 o'clock this afternoon a terrific hailstorm, which lasted for nearly an hour, blew over this city. The hailstones were as large as hens' eggs and came down with such violence as to smash all the…

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