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729 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 37
Heavy rain and over 4in. of snow fell last night. The river came down suddenly about 4 a.m. to-day, flooding the lower part of the town. Only for the volunteers coming from the ball it is probade a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During the past 40 hours heavy rain has fallen unceasingly and still coutmues, 4 inches 90 pointe having fallen up to 2 p.m. South and Rope's creeks are in very high flood. The bridges over the former…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rain, which commenced here on Tuesday morning and has continued Incessantly since, has produced the biggest flood since 1870. This morning 402 points are recorded for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YASS, Thursday. -- The flood is now at its height, and the traffic bridge is not approachable from South Yass, communication being conducted by the railway bridge. The flood came…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →RICHMOND, Thursday. -- The river is now 41ft above summer level, being 26ft. above the bridge. It is still rising at the rate of 3ft. an hour, and will break over at Agnes Banks to-night. This…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NOWRA, Thursday. -- Heavy rain fell all night and to-day, accompanied by a strong south-east gale. List night the river rose very rapidly and suddenly, and is still rising. Unless the gale…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The continual rain of the last day or two has had the effect of flooding the Parramatta River in a way that seems likely to test the retaining walls recently built by Government above Lennox Bridge, and may…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Hard squalls and mountainous seas," is the general report of captains who came up from the southward on Friday. This state of affairs also extends to the north as far as the Manning, for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday afternoon at about 2.30 a cyclone struck the premises of Mr. Jas. Bell, dairyman, RockFarm, carrying away the roof and completely wrecking the front…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Thorne, connected with the Bathurst telegraph office, had climbed one of the telegraph posts at that town on Thursday, for the purpose of repairing a line, when his foot slipped, and he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread How can so contemptible a thing infleet such a mountain of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Several times during the last two months there have burst upon the capital some truly dreadful nights. Bleak and bitter cold, fierce and uncontrolled winds, tremendous showers of rain hurried…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Though not so stormy as the previous day the weather yesterday was boisterous, and the coast was swept by rough seas, the result of the southeast gale. An outcome of the storm was the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →There was a slight alteration in the barometer on Tuesday about midday. During the night there were heavy showers and all day Wednesday there was every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BATHURST, Friday.--No words could adequately describe the condition of Bathurst last night and this morning. It was veritably a snow-bound city, snow lying on the level to a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The dismasting of the schooner Stanley in Thursday's gale prove an experience the like of which Captain Richards and his men. fervently pray they may never have again…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →About the only consolation the losers--and they are many--by-the great storms of the past few days will have is that those storms have been practically of unprecedentel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The river has risen 39 feet, and is still rising at the rate of 6 inches an hour. The homesteads on the lowlands are all deserted, the majority being under water…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BERRY, Friday.-An immense body of water is lying over the whole of the low-lying Shoalhaven meadows, the greatest since the 1890 flood. Numerous farms are completely submerged, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ALBURY, Friday.-Authentic reports received at Albury show that the floods in the district were of a more serious character than was yesterday thought to be the case. A great flood…
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