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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1870

18 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Terrible Storm in America

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 6

A FEARFU[?] storm occurred in America on October 4. In Albany, and some distance weatward on the Central Railroad, trains were delayed and colverts were washed away. The…

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Terrific Storm at Glen Innes

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 5

THE correspondent of the Armidale Express writes:—The great storm has injured or ruined many hardworking, honest farmers, who, depending on their crops, find their hopes blasted. The storm came from the south and south-east,…

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The Recent Storm in Victoria

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 8

THE country papers describe the violence and volume of the rainfall on Monday week as something almost unprecedented. At Ballarat the register showed that 1.02 inch had fallen in five…

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Destructive Flood at Otago

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 8

ON the 2nd of this month Otago was visited by our and twenty hours heavy rain, accompanied by a strong gale. The Otago Times states that the water of Leith was in high flood during the day,…

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The Cyclone at Bowen

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 8

ON Sunday last Bowen was visited by a cyclone of considerable violence, that did a good deal of harm to some of (he rotten building in Herbert-street and elsewhere. It roust be confessed…

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Great Flood at Maryborough

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1870 · page 7

It is our (Marybarough Chronicle) painful to record the visitation of a most disastrous flood in our district, and which unfortunately gives indications of being more calamitous than that of…

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Floods in Gippsland

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1870 · page 6

THE heavy rains which fell daring the early part of last week, canned the rivers to over-flow, and produced such a flood as has not been known in Gippsland for the lest seven…

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Bravery of a Maitland Volunteer Boats Crew During the Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1870 · page 5

I TRUST that you will allow me sufficient space in your valuable journal to give your readers, and especially your Maitland ones, a full report of the rescue of the four men who were in company with the late Mr. M'Laugh[?]n, who…

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The Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 4

YESTERDAY we were Tinted with the highest flood experienced in this ,district for the last ten yean. As stated elsewhere, the rain set in on Wednesday night, continuing so unremittingly, that the…

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Floods in Gippsland

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 6

ON this subject, the Gippsland Times of the 19th ultimo supplies the following information:— "At the hour of going to press, tho flood…

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The Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 4

IN addition to what we stated in our last issue, we have further intelligence to hand, conveying reliable particular, in one case only, of the effects of the recent floods. Our accounts froma the various…

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Floods in Gippsland

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 6

FROM the Times of the 3rd instant, we extract the following:— The genial warmth of Thursday and Friday had the anticipated effect of melting…

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Floods at Queanbeyan

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 7

FROM the Queanbeyan Age, of the 19th instant, we extract the appended report of the recent flood in that district:— On last Thursday morning heavy rain once…

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Heavy Floods in Gippsland

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 5

FROM the Gippsland Times, of the 17th instant, we extract the following particulars of the heaviest flood yet experience in Northern Gippsland:— The forty-eight hours of heavy and incessant rain…

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Another Flood

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 6

THE Gundagai Times says:—If the present weather continues, floods will shortly cease to be a novelty, end we may yet have to record as a noteworthy fact that the Gundagai river flats…

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Second Flood in the Murrumbidgee

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 6

AFTER the disastrous experience of the flood of the 28th April and the warnings received by telegram from the up-country townships in the coarse of Friday last, few…

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Floods at Bega

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 8

FROM the 9th of March to the 13th of May, with the exception of two or three fine days, the weather has been singularly unpropitious, and the rain has continually been falling—sometimes in torrents,…

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colonial Mems. Floods in Victoria. Melbourne and Suburbs

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1870 · page 4

THE channels in Elizabeth and Sw[?]nston street's began to overflow, and in avery short time Flinders streat, at the june[?]ion of the two above named thoroughfares, was covered with water to…

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