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Floods & storms, 1880

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

Heavy Thunderstorms. BEGA

Evening News · Thursday 9 December 1880 · page 2

Two very heavy thunderstorms passed ever Bega yesterday evening. Hailstones fell in large pieces, an inch square, and is said to be the heaviest fall of bail ever known here. The…

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The Deluge

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 17

Is there any evidence of the tradition of the destruction of the human race by a great deluge among the Hindoos or among any of the peoples of India or among the Chinese? If so, where is that evidence to…

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Gales and Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 December 1880 · page 7

The results of the gales and heavy ruins, according to the reports published from all parts of the country, have been very disastrous. The gale, which commenced on Tuesday, October 26, blew with terrific violence on…

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A Dry Storm

Evening News · Friday 24 December 1880 · page 5

No keeper disappointment could have been sustained by the people of Sydney collectively than that of met night, when the long-looked-for downpour was promised with all the earnestness the clerk of the…

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Terrific Gale in Tasmania. [By Electric Telegraph.] Hobart

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 December 1880 · page 2

To-day there has been a tertific westerly gale, which has blown down a great number of trees and played sad havoc. A merry-go-round in the Domain fell, killing a man. The cricket pavilion…

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