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The weather yesterday and to-dny was very wintry. During the night and the early part of this morning a gale raged from the south-east. The rainfall was not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sudden and heavy drop in the temperatures occurred in the city and most parts of the colony yesterday. The cause of this (says Mr. Russell, the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The meteorological conditions showed no sign of improvement along the coast yesterday Gales from west-south-west to south held sway, the accompanying rough seas making…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At 9 a.m. yesterday all the southern stations along the seaboard were having a stiff blow with a high sea running. The greatest velocity of the wind at Sydney was in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--Owing to the gale to-day the hawsers of the barque Jupiter and the brig Amy carted when entering the harbor, but they stood out on sail, and were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MACLEAN, Tuesday.-The heaviest storm that has been experienced this year occurred at the Heads on Sunday night. The quarry at Angourie, where the stone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rarely have so many of the coasting vessels had to take shelter as was the case yesterday. In Port Stephens the steamers Augusta, the Dione, and the Gosford were at anchor, also the Lena and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the run up to Sydney from Hobart the steamer Oonah was out in the thick of the storm, and though oneof the finest seaboats afloat she come to grief, and had to make the latter part of her…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Amid storm and darkness last night a scene of wreck and death and heroic rescue Was enacted within a few miles of Sydney Heads while Sydney folk were quietly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coastal reports show that a violent south to south-south-east gale swept the coast on Thursday night and yesterday. It was heaviest between Sydney and Newcastle, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An inquest was hold yesterday afternoon before me Coroner, Mr. Francis Woodward, on the body of a young man named Alexander Robert Moir,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Asked what the prospects were for further rains, Mr. Russell said:--"Indications of another electrical disturbance, with rain, are now over the colony, and the first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday morning a heavy thunderstorm burst over Sydney, bringing with it hail and rain. In some places the hail was very heavy, notably in Balmain, North Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Heavy rains have fallen in the Cunnamulla district, and it is estimated that the fall is sufficient to supply water till Christmas. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Engineer for Ports and Harbours has received a message from Gabo stating that during the recent gale, when telegraphic communication was interrupted, 228ft. of stone will of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For some years past the question of the disposal of the storm waters on the boundaries of the boroughs of Waverley and Randwick has been before the interested councils, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR Dowell O'Reilly, M.L.A., has received the following letter on the subject of the completion of the Storm Water Sewer in Pennant-Street, Parramatta North:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. O'Reilly has written to the Public Works Department re a proposal to carry the storm water sewer in Parramatta South, from its present point of commencement, back to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The barque Yolande, Captain Macdonald, employed in the Clarence and New England timber trade, arrived in the river after a passage of 31 days from Lyttelton. The barque experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The following letter has been received by Mr. D. O'Reilly, M.L.A., on the subject of the Clay Cliff Creek Storm Water:— Public Works Department:…
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