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Floods & storms, 1846

2 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Great Floods and Loss of Life. (From the Leeds Mercury, April 11.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1846 · page 2

EAST RETFORD.—THIRTY-ONE PERSONS DROWNED.—In this district the rain on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and the greater part of…

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Terrible Storm and Destruction of Property at Rarotonga. (From a Missionary's Letter.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 31 October 1846 · page 2

On the 16th of March last we were visited with one of the most awful storms that I suppose ever swept across the Pacific. We continued in our house as long as we considered it…

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