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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1885

163 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 9

Heavy Rain at Silverton

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 December 1885 · page 12

The warden at Silverton has telegraphed that heavy rain fell all day on Monday, about four inches having fallen since Saturday. The creek is running nearly a hundred yards wide. A good deal of damage…

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Minute Guns and Wedding Bells. A True Story of a Storm in the English Channel

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 December 1885 · page 18

"What a noise the wind makes! it blows great guns to-night and no mistake," grumbled Frank Harvey as he pulled the bedclothes over his ears in order to deaden the sound. "How do you get on, Tom ? I can't go to sleep,"…

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The Drought and Floods. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 December 1885 · page 5

Sir,—In your issue of Friday, the 11th instant, appears an article from the pen of Mr. Edward Heaton, relative to the drought, and to the extraordinary [?]fforts of the blacks in various parts of Australia to prepare for a wet season…

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