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

Floods & storms, 1876

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

Disastrous Floods at Pesth

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 6 May 1876 · page 2

Alarming news comes from Pesth. The Danube, which is as broad there as the Mississippi, has risen twenty-four feet above its normal height. Buda is inundated to a…

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Late News by the Mail. Snowstorm and Gale in England

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 17 May 1876 · page 2

THE weather on the 12th March was very tempestations all over England. In London, about I p.m. a snow storm of unusual severely commenced, and lasted about two…

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The Flood on the [?] RIVER. (By telegraph to the Herald.) GRAFTON

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 2

ON the 15th instant there was a heavy southeast gale with rain. Early on Sunday morning the river rose rapidly. A large [?] of flour. wheat and other produce…

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