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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1876

6 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Floods on Clarence River

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 2

GRAFTON, July 18.—There is a great flood here; the water is higher by 5 feet than in the memorable flood have been drowned, and…

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Floods in Queensland

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 3

A telegram from Brisbane to the [?] Sunday [?] says;— [?] Brisbane was visited with the heaviest [?] experienced for…

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Floods in the Clarence. Grafton, Saturday, 22nd July

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 4

THE following telegram forwarded by our correspondent at Grafton, at the above date, reached us this morning, having been detained in consequence of…

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Second Edition. Latest Telegram. the Manaro Mercury. Great Floods at Tumut and Gundgal Saturday 23rd September

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1876 · page 3

WE have received the following information:— It has rained in in [?] on the west on side of the Alps, between T[?]nt and…

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Flood in Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1876 · page 3

ON Thursday night, Cooma and Back Crooks overflowed their banks, carrying away fences, and doing other damage. About midnight, Mr. Mark Rollason…

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The Flood of Years

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1876 · page 4

A M[?] Hand, from an exhaust[?] Uro, [?] the never ending Flood at years Among the nations. How the [?] wives Real all before the [?] On their [?]…

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