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174 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 9
Regarding the temporary railway bridge, it was predicted that should a flood occur in the river the distances between the supports were not sufficiently far apart to allow the drift wood and heavy timber…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PESTH, March 12.—The town of Izzidin has been completely inundated. There was a great loss of life, and thousands were rendered homeless. Later advices announce that the calamity which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A tremendous flood took place in the Macintyre Hirer last night, the highest known since 1872. At halt-past 7 o'clock it bad spread all over the low-lying lands, and at midnight it had completely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Scott, of the Meteorological-office, has lectured at the London Institution on storms, the announced title of the lecture being "The Birth, Life, and Death of a Storm." Of the birth—the origin—of storms it was said we still know but…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pesth, March 16.—The whole country below Szegedin and Temisvar is strewn with caravans of people. All the villages and boroughs have hospitably oponed their houses and stores to the refugees. Railway trains yesterday took…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pesth, March 16.—The whole country below Szegedin and Temisvar is strewn with caravans of people. All the villages and boroughs have hospitably opened their houses and stores to the refugees. Railway trains yesterday took…
Continued on Trove, page 635 →A HEAVY gale was experienced at this place on Saturday evening, and continued through the night. Signs of a coming storm were first observed early in the afternoon, when the thunder was loud and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The cold, changeable weather that has prevailed here for some time past culminated at length, on Saturday last, in one of those sudden and severe gales from the southward which are so prevalent at certain seasons on this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The cold, changeable weather that has prevailed here for some time past culminated at length, on Saturday last, in one of those sudden and severe, gales from the southward which are so prevalent at certain seasons on this…
Continued on Trove, page 749 →A HEAVY gale was experienced at this place on Saturday evening, and continued through the night. Signs of a coming storm were first observed early in the afternoon, when the thunder was loud and the…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →There has been incessant rain here for the last three days, and the river is flooded higher than it has ever been since 1855 Thomas Simes, of Lismore, aged 24 years, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There has been incessant rain for the fast 48 hours, and the river is ruins; rapidly. There are serious apprehensions of a flood at Copmanhurst. According to a telegraphic bulletin issued by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The river is still rising, and the steamers have ceased running. Several families have been flooded out. Heavy rain is still falling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The river is now at La[?] flood, which is already causing some damage. The front of the new dry dock at South Brisbane, which was nearly completed, has been broken in by the force of water,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The flood in the river is abating, but the river is still unpassable, although all danger of a heavy flood appears to be past. The weather is fine overhead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pester Lloyd publishes a telegram from Szegedin, stating that the town and environs contained 9700 houses, and that, after an official inspection in the four districts of the number of houses now standing, there were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"The Margaret Chessel might hive been saved by being towed into the harbour. Who was to blame for not giving the order to the Government Steamer Ajax to proceed to the assistance of a vessel in distress within almost a stone's throw of her destination?" -- Newcastle Herald and Advocate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Pester Lloyd publishes a telegram from Szegedin, stating that the town and environs contained 9700 houses, and that, after an official inspection in the four districts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YE stalwart form of ye Chevalier Bayliss is in danger of annihilation, as I read in the public prints. Ye tribes of ye Harkins and ye Evans have proceeded from ye lie oblique to ye lie direct, and ye avenger of blood is on ye war-path. Ye knight of the curt-cut hair…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE weather in this district for the last seven weeks has been one of continued rain, with very slight intervals of dry weather, and therefore, although somewhat acclimatized to our old friend Sol, very…
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