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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1900

17 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Floods at Levuka

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 3

Two serious floods are reported from Levoka, resulting in great loss of property. Full particulars are not yet to band, but it is…

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The Lancashire storm

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 2

The South Lancashire Regiment, in a magnificent manner stormed the hill [?] the Bo[?] in all directions…

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Cyclone at Mullaley

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 3

GUNNEDAII, Thursday.—The township of Mullaley, 25 miles away, has been wreoked by a cyclone. To within a few miles of Mullaley there are no signs of a…

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Heavy Rains in Cooma District. Portion of the Town Flooded. Damage to Creek Bridges

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 2

"During the past weeks the Cooma district has been visited by a continuous downpour, the rain being at the commencement light and int[?]mitten…

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Floods at Orbost

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 3

THE Bairnsdale "Advertiser's" Orbost correspondent says:—It is nearly six years since we have had anything like a food, and we had began to be sanguine…

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The gale in Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 2

The gale im Sydney a cate Say caused distraction to propeteas in many ocaliabes.It reache has velocity of fifty mile can hour, and…

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The Floods at Orbost

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 5

THE recent floods in the Snowy River (says the "S. R. Mail") did a considerable amount of damage. The first was bad enough but the second was worse,…

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Electricity From a Snow Storm

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 11 June 1900 · page 2

William A. Eddy, at Bayonne, N.J., made some interesting tests on February 17 with a kite, his object being to make an [?]rical…

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SYDNEY, Friday. Rainfull and floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 2

Heavy floods have occurred in the south west portion of this colony. It is fine hern Seven inches of rain have fallen in Sydney…

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A Long Nervous Storm

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 1

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of w[?], white cotton thread. How can so con[?]ptible a…

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A Long Nervous Storm

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 16 July 1900 · page 1

It you ever watched a dentist draw a serve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little [?] of wet, while cotton thread. How can so contemptible a…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 20 July 1900 · page 4

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1900 · page 4
Also in The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so…

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Russians storm Sensing

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1900 · page 2

The Russians have stormed Sensing, Manchuria and captured 22 guns. They had seven wounded…

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The Safest Place in a Thunderstorm

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 3

As a general rule, avoid sheltering under trees when overtaken by a thunderstorm out in the country. Rather put up with a drenching than run the…

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The recent cyclone at Mateking

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 3 September 1900 · page 2

The recent cyclone at Mafeking wracked most of the buildings which comprise the Mafeking Field Hospital, containing 150 patients. 80 great…

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