Heavy Floods in Queensland
GOONDIWINDI SUBMERGED.—Brisbane, Sunday.—A great flood has taken place at Goondiwindi. The McIntyre River is running miles wide, and the town is under water…
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Floods & storms, 1886
28 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 2
The Storm Petehel
THE STORM PETEREL.—According to Buffer, the name Petre[?] is derived from Peter the Ap[?]stle, who walked upon the water; the ba[?]t of apparently running along on the waves, so noticeable in this bird,…
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DURING the past week the district of Tenterfield has been visited daily by very heavy thunderstorms. On Monday afternoon the storm was unusually terrific, and proved most…
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ON Thursday evening Goulburn was visited with a very severe thunderstorm. The water descended in sheets for some time, but luckily little hail fell. Some…
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A Penrith telegram of Mondays say:—Nearly 13 inches of rain fell during the week, and it is still raining. A storekeeper, whose shop was flooded, will lose property worth considerably…
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THE heaviest fall of rain ever known at Mount Macdonald occurred on Tuesday. Milburn Creek, about three miles distant, was seven feet higher than in the well remembered floods of…
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A CORRESPONDENT at Rye Park informs us that very heavy rains have fallen there, flooding Pudman Creek and causing great destruction to the crops. Hay lying in paddocks and fencing…
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ON Tuesday afternoon, December 7 ( says the “Cowra Free Press”) we were visited with a perfect deluge, which converted ordinary, drains and small wateroo[?] into seething torrents, that…
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