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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

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Wrecks on the Coast. [?]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 3

THE Leichhardt [?]. Captain MeLean reports that at daylight on Thursday, he packed up a best with four men who has been washed [?] from the [?], Captain [?], from Port Darwin…

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Floods and Wrecks. West Kempsey

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 4

11TH March.—It commenced to rain on Wednesday, 3rd instant, and continued during Thursday with slight intermission. On Friday the rain because heaviour, and the river rose 4 feet. During Friday night there was a…

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