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Floods & storms, 1881

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Disastrous Floods

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 December 1881 · page 12

LONDON, December 20.—Disastrous floods have occurred in Algeria. Four hundred lives were lost…

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Heavy Storm in Victoria. [By Telegraph] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 December 1881 · page 5

The weather to-day has been very unpleasant. A ho[?] wind was blowing all the morning; subsequently this changed to the west, and a terrific dust-storm followed with a light shower, in the city. The wind blew with…

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Destructive Storm in Victoria. [By Electric Telegraph.] Melbourne

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 December 1881 · page 3

Telegrams from the north-eastern district state that a tremendous storm was experienced there yesterday afternoon, which has done great damage to property. All the road about Chiltern, Indigo…

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Heavy Storms in Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 December 1881 · page 1128

The weather to-day has been very unpleasant A hot wind was blowing all the morning; subsequently this changed to the west, and a terrific dust-storm followed with a light shower, in the city. The wind blew with…

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