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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1860

10 stories in Murray's papers

Sydney. (By Electric Telegraph.)great Floods at Windsor, Wol- Longong, and Shoalhaven. Tuesday Evening

The Border Post · Wednesday 15 February 1860 · page 2

About 8 o’clock on Saturday, the Cornwall is bridge was swept away, and a report circulated that Horrell’s mill had shared the same fate. A considerable portion of…

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The Floods

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1860 · page 3

IN consequence of the heavy floods we have had no direct communication with Sydney, but some particulars of the terrible disasters have found their way by sea to Melbourne. We…

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Colonial. the Floods at [?]

The Border Post · Wednesday 29 February 1860 · page 3

At the Large [?] Bourke’s public house, Mr. Bennison’s house and stores, Mr. Garnett’s house and stores, and numerous tents have been destroyed, and…

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Forests and Floods

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1860 · page 2

The frequency with, which floods occur in the basins of some of the principal rivers in this colony, the destruction of life and property which they occasion, and the…

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The Weather and the Floods. Goulburn. (From the Herald July 28th.)

The Border Post · Saturday 4 August 1860 · page 2

The weather still continues rainy. Yesterday and the day before there were appearances of a clearing up; but whatever hopes they might have given rise to were doomed to be disappointed…

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Colonial Mems. the Weather and the Floods Sydney

The Border Post · Wednesday 8 August 1860 · page 3

During our visit to South Head yesterday we had an opportunity of making inquiries relative to the cyclone which gyrated along the coast on Tuesday morning. Before…

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Serious Flood,—swamping of the Mines at Clunes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 October 1860 · page 4

In noting the damage incurred by the companies injured and threatened by the fearful encroschmenton Friday night, I was studiously cautious, not wishing to be an alarmist; perhaps I was very tame indeed…

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Destructive Flood. Monday Morning

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 12 December 1860 · page 3

Melbourne and its neighbourhood have just been visited by one of the severest and most destructive floods experienced for several years. On Saturday night the storm commenced by thunder and lightning,…

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Great Flood at Ballarat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 19 December 1860 · page 4

On Sunday morning, between ten and eleven o’clock, the Main-road was visited with another disastrous flood, which has done an immensity of damage, not only to the foot-walks and street, but also…

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