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

Floods & storms, 1875

25 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 2

European Mail News. Great Floods and Loss of Life in England

The Burrowa News · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 4

THE heavy and incessant rain of the past few days has been followed by floods in various parts of the kingdom, attended unfortunately not only by a vast amount of damage to property but by…

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The French Flood—exciting Accounts

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 October 1875 · page 4

THE disaster caused by the inundations are still the most important items in our daily budgets of news, and there seems to be, a sort of fascination in these dreadful details…

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The S. S. Hero in a Gale

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 10 November 1875 · page 2

THE steamer Hero on her passage from Sydney encountered a fearful cyclone, during which the second officer, Mr. John Wiener, aged twenty-seven and who had been employed on board the steamer for…

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The Great Flood in India. Ahmedabad, September 24

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 8 December 1875 · page 4

WHEN I left Bombay the night before last I little expected to find the landscape so much changed from the view it presented during the exciting but dry days of the Baroda…

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A Storm in a Teapot. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1875 · page 4

SIR,—The late proceedings against the “Evening News” have been most gloriously ended, the Judgment of their Honors the Supreme Court judges saying in a roundabout way, but still,…

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