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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1879

9 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 3

ONE of the heaviest downfalls of rain we have had for years was that in Cooma on Thursday last. It commenced to rain in torrents about [?]…

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Great Floods on Manaro. Highest Flood ever known in Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 3

JUST before going to press, on Tuesday afternoon, a storm broke over Cooma, as w[?]announced in our issue of Wednesday. At about 4 o'clock,…

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More Floods in Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 19 March 1879 · page 3

THE floods were repeated in town on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday night, Cooma Creek being flooded equally as high as on former…

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Recent Cooma Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 30 April 1879 · page 3

IT may interest our readers to learn the rate of the velocity and discharge of the water in Cooma Creek during the big flood of 1879. We are…

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Gi[?]sland Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 18 June 1879 · page 4

THE Bairnsdale correspondent of the Argus on Saturday week communicated the following to that journal by telegraph:—A heavy downpour of…

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Flood at Umaralla

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 13 September 1879 · page 2

ON Wednesday, whilst the Umaralla River was very high, Mr. F. Thomas and Mr. Charles tindall, who were waiting on the Cooma side of the river, saw the dead body…

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Flood in the Hawkesbury

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 17 September 1879 · page 4

ON Thursday morning the traffic on the Richmond line was impeded by the waters of the Hawkesbury flooding South Creek and covering the railway line at…

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The Flood in Araluen

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 1 October 1879 · page 4

OUR correspondent sends the following particulars in respect to the damages done by the floods in the Happy Valley:—"After the heavy flood of last week we…

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Sketcher. the Flooding of the Sahara

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 2

"ACROSS the Sahara by steamer" promises, at no distant day, to be classed among the announcement of this age of mechanical and engineering triumphs. That the…

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