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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Floods & storms
15 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers
Heavy floods have visited Victoria, producing great distruction to property and loss of life. At Geelong the quantity of rain which had fallen was tremendous. The water at the dam at the east end…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About midnight of Wednesday last this township and its neighbourhood were visited by a flood, more destructive to property and life than any that has occurred for the last 15 years. During the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Being one of the oldest inhabitants of this township, I am induced to make a suggestion, from seeing a subscription set on foot to procure a Boat for public accommodation in case of similar floods to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWS reached Goulburn on Wednesday night of the nearly total destruction by flood of the town of Gundagai, with the loss of between 70 and 80 lives—only three houses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HAWKESBURY RIVER, JUNE 29.—The extraordinary wet season we have had since February last, has retarded agricultural operations to a serious extent, inasmuch as the farmers with the scanty supply…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A REPORT was current during the week, and was generally believed to be true, that Wagga Wagga bad shared the fate of Gundagai, and that only two of its inhabitants had been saved. By the last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LAST week we recorded the entire destruction of the town of Gundagai, on the Murrumbidgee River, by flood, attended by the loss of seventy-seven lives. Appalling as that tale was we have reason…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The little town of Queanbeyan did not escape the flood of the 23rd of June. Although no lives were lost, a considerable quantity of property was destroyed. Mr. S. Nutter's mill (late Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following letter from our Yass correspondent, reached Goulburn on last Friday week, but owing to the negligence of some clerk in the Post Office we did not receive it until the following…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JULY 7.âI have to record one of those very destructive floods to which the river Murrumbidgee is so subject, and regret to state that it was attended with great loss of human life and property…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A PUBLIC meeting of the inhabitants of this town was held on Monday evening last, at the Salutation Inn, for the relief of the sufferers by the late floods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR news from this locality is very scanty. We have, however, ascertained that no lives have been lost in the township, although it is much feared that some have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ACCOUNTS are daily reaching us of individual losses by the late floods on the Murrumbidgee. Those from Wagga Wagga are very distressing. An immense amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FLOOD AT THE LACHLAN.—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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—As your columns and advice appear to be at the service of the public generally, I take advantage of them to request a public expression of opinion from you, as to what is the most equitable mode to…
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