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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1870

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The Flood at Braidwood

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 May 1870 · page 4

AS early as the morning of the 22nd ult. the creeks on each side of the town were nearly bank high. At night of that date the Shoalhaven River was impassable, and the Kiandra…

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Floods at Bungendore

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 4

ON Tuesday last this town was visited with a heavy flood, exceeding anything we have before witnessed. It is said that the waters were higher than at the time of the great Gundagai flood. For nearly two…

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Great Flood at Gundagai

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, 27th April.—Gundagai has been visited by the greatest flood that has taken place since the disastrous inundation of June, 1852, which swept away the old…

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Dreadful Flood at Shoalhaven

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 3

FROM Shoalhaven, by the mail which arrived here from Terrara on Tuesday morning, we have accounts of a most disastrous flood, resulting in the destruction of a large amount…

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Heavy Rains and Destructive Floods at Queanbeyan. Tuesday, April 26

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 2

THE unusually heavy and continuous rains of the past week, with all the inconveniences and other unpleasant consequences attendant on a superabundance of wet weather,…

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Latest Telegram. (From the Sydney Dailies.) Dubbo. Three Lives Lost in the Floods. Saturday night

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 2

A man named Carey has been drowned in the Marthaguy Creek, near Brenda. Another man was also drowned in Bundemah Creek, and another at Narrawinea,…

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The Floods

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 2

LATER accounts do not at all tend to calm our fears as to the amount-of damage done in vaeious parts of the country. From Cowra we learn that the people in that town were aroused about…

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The Storm and Its Effects at Kiama

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 May 1870 · page 4

THE Kiama correspondent of the Illawarra Mercury gives the following account of the storm that raged along the coast during the early part of last week, during the prevalence…

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The Flood at Queanbeyan. Additional Particulars

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 May 1870 · page 4

WE abridge the following from the Aye of the 5th inst.:-- As regards the actual height of the river in town on Tuesday, the 26th ult., we find…

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The Flood at Wagga Wagga. Great Destruction of Property

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 May 1870 · page 4

THE following particulars are abridged from the Wagga Wagga Advertiser of the 4th inst.: --On Wednesday, the 27th ult., it was known that a flood was probable, but the general…

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The Flood at Wagga Wagga

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 May 1870 · page 4

THE following account of the flood at Wagga Wagga is abridged by the Gundagai Times from the local journals:— The Express states that on Wednesday, the 27th…

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The Flood at Cowes Later Intelligence

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 3

WE are just beginning to recover Ourselves from the effects of our recent visitation, and everyone that will work is at work, and yet strange to say, there fare such a number of…

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The Floods. Friday afternoon

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 2

WE hear there is another flood in Yass though it has not reached to within twelve feet as high as before. The lower part of the town is submerged. The telegraph…

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The Flood at Wagga. (Abridged From the Adver[?] )

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 4

AS most of oar readers will have beard before this sheet reaches them, the district has been visited by one of the heaviest floods ever known here within the memory…

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Local and General. a Second Flood

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 May 1870 · page 2

AS mentioned in our issue of that day, the Yass River was rapidly rising early on the morning of last Friday. By sunrise the water was within about four feet of the tops of the cylinders of the…

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A Second Flood at Yass

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 3

As mentioned in our issue of that day, the Yass River was rising rapidly early on the morning of last Friday. By sunrise the water was within about four foot of the tops of the…

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Floods at Queanbeyan

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 3

ON last Thursday morning heavy rain once more set in, and continued almost without abatement for nearly twenty-four hours, Before midday there was a considerable rise in the Queenbeyan, although the…

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(To the Editor of the Burrangong Argus.) the Floods

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 2

Sir,—This district has been one of the favored few that have escaped the late disastrous floods, and the inhabitants ought not to forget their duty towards their less fortunate fellow-colonists…

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Flood at Queanbeyan

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 May 1870 · page 4

ON last Thursday morning heavy rain once more set in, and continued almost without abatement for nearly twenty-four hours. It was soon seen that, another flood was…

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Second Flood in the Murrumbidgee

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 May 1870 · page 4

AFTER the disastrous experiences of the flood of the 28th April and the warnings received by telegram from the up-country townships in the course of Friday last, few of our townsmen were taken unawares…

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