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Floods & storms, 1898

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Furious Gale in the Channel

The Australian Star · Thursday 29 December 1898 · page 5

A furious gale has swept over the greater part of the United Kingdom. The Channel packets were compelled to stop running during the height of the gale. Much damage…

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Furious Gale in the United Kingdom

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 December 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--A furious gale is raging over the greater part of the United Kingdom, and much damage has been occasioned on the coasts…

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An Easterly Gale in the Tasman Sea. How the Elingamite Fared

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 December 1898 · page 6

Capital a seaboat as the Eligamite is, she on her last run from Sydney to New Zealand took sume heavy water aboard, which, as will be seea, resulted disast[?]ly to deeklive stock. The report says:—Shortly after having…

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Great Gale in the British Isles. Channel Packets Cease Running. London, Dec. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 December 1898 · page 5

A furious gale has swept over the greater part of the United Kingdom. The Channel packets woee compelled to stop running during the height of the gale…

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Our New Guinea Letter. a Severe Cyclone. Twelve Boats Lost. Several Fatalities. Samarai, Dec. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 December 1898 · page 5

We have been visited by the heaviest cyclone that has occurred in the memory of the oldest native of this part of New Guinea. It commenced to blow from the S.E.on Friday,…

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