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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1852

6 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

Colonial News. Victoria. the Floods

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 June 1852 · page 4

Every hour brings tidings of fresh disasters, and on all sides the receding waters reveal their work of destruction. At Bates' Ford, the Marrabool swept over the bridge…

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Terrible Flood and Loss of Lute at Goulburn

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 July 1852 · page 4

On Wednesday night last, Goulburn and its vicinity were visited by one of those fearful calamities which no foresight can avert, and which are usually…

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Country News. Extraordinary Floods at Yass

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 July 1852 · page 4

The rain began to fall on Sunday morning last, and continued to pour in torrents, with little intermission until this morning. About mid-day on Wednesday, the river…

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Country News. Gundagai. Dreadful Flood. —Sixty-four Lives Lost

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 July 1852 · page 1

JUNE 28.—I beg leave to forward you a brief account of a dreadful flood we have just been visited with at Gundagai. Though the river had been rising for some…

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The Late Floods

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 July 1852 · page 2

The following letters give more authentic detailed accounts of the late floods at Gund than have yet been published :—Extract from a letter from tho Rev. C. F…

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Country News. Flood at the Lachlan

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 July 1852 · page 2

We have been permitted to glean the following particulars from the letter of Mr. Joshua Hughes to his sister, referred to in another place. The writer was awoke about 3 o'clock of the…

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