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132 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 7
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Owing to the heavy rains which fell during the last twenty-four hours, extensive floods have occurred around Melbourne. This morning the water rose very rapidly, and covered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OWING to the heavy rains which fell during the last twenty-four hours, extensive floods have occurred around Melbourne. This morning the water rose very rapidly and covered St. Kild[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ONE of heaviest and most disastrous floods that have ever occurred in the Yarra since Melbourne was founded occurred on Saturday. It was equal in highs and volume of water to any flood that has become memorable du[?] the last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation from the Paddington Municipality, consisting of Mr. Campbell (mayor), Alderman Artlett, Taylor, and Reddy, and Mr. Hellmrich (council dark), interviewed the Minister for Works this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the heaviest and most disastrous floods that have ever occurred in the Yarra since Melbourne was founded, occurred on Saturday. Previous inundations, however, have been preponded by signs, &c…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne, Saturday.—Owing to the heavy raine which fell during the last twenty-four: hours, extensive floods have occurred around Melbourne. This morning the water rose very…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ONE of the heaviest and most disastrous floods that have ever occurred in the Yarra since Melbourne was founded occurred on Saturday. It was equal in height and volume of water to any flood, that has become memorable during the last…
Continued on Trove, page 365 →THE flood of years, so swiftly flowing. Down the whirling gulf of Time, Returning never, always going Through those awful shades sublime…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Owing to the heavy rains which fell during the last twenty-four hours, extensive floods have occurred around Melbourne. This morning the water rose very rapidly, and covered…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →YASS, Wednesdny.—It has rained incessantly here since daybreak yesterday. The heaviest rain for years fell last night and this morning. It still continues pouring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YASS, Wednesdsy.—There is every indication now of a great flood. The river is now rising rapidly, and it is already higher than it has been since the flood of 1870. The rain continues…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"THE cyclones of the Bay of Benfral," Mr. Blanford. remarks, "originate when there is, no current of wind blowing in any definite direction across it; when the atmosphere is calm, or moved, only by light and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation from the Paddington Municipality, consisting of Mr. Campbell (mayor), Alderman Artlett, Taylor, and Reddy, and Mr. Hellmrich (council clerk), interviewed the Minister for Works on…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →BEFORE daylight on Tuesday morning it commenced to rain in Yass, and continued without causing until Past 2 o'clock on Wednesday. The water literally poured from the heavens, and it is not an exaggeration…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE daylight on Tuesday morning it commenced to rain in Yass, and continued without ceasing until past 2 o'clock on Wednesday. For one hour on Tuesday afternoon and nearly two hours on Wednesday morning the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BEFORE daylight on Tuesday morning it commenced to rain in Yass, and continued without ceasing until past 2 o'clock on Wednesday. The water literally poured from the heavens, and it in not an exaggeration…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →MELBOURNE has again, been visited by a heavy flood. After a period of warm, dry weather, which had caused a repetition of the drought that greeted the incoming of the year, and was beginning to give no little anxiety to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Very heavy rein fell on Friday in different parts of the colony, but at Sandhurst the fall was greater than elsewere. The town was flooded, and much destruction to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is somewhat of a paradox that the heavy rainfall in the neighbourhood of Melbourne should prove the direct cause of a water famine in that overgrown city and suburbs. Yet so it was. The flood in the Plenty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The Logan, at the crossing near the road from the Comet to Peak Downs, is flooded half a mile wide and 15ft deep. There is neither bridge nor boat with which to effect a…
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