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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1880

4 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Floods in Victoria

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1880 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The floods to-day are very serious. The water is higher than at any time since 1863. All the low lying land is submerged, and…

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An Intemperate Gale. to the Editor of the Manaro Mercury

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 6 October 1880 · page 3

SIR,—In your inst issue there is a clipping from anther paper of a portion of a speech reported to have been delivered in Goulburn by Mr…

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Destructive Storms in Europe

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 27 October 1880 · page 4

WE learn by telegram from New York that advices from Kingston, Jamaica, of August 19, report that thousands of persons have been rendered homeless by the…

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Telephones in Thunderstorms

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 10 November 1880 · page 3

THERE appears to be some danger attending the use of the new agent which science is daily utilizing more and more. The development of…

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