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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1864

3 stories in Murray's papers

Flood on the Hunter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 February 1864 · page 3

Owing to the heavy rains during the lest few days the river began to rise at Singleton and Maitland early on Wednesday morning. It went on rising till Thursday evening, when it had broken over the banks…

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A Squatter’s Stock Destroyed by Floods

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 28 May 1864 · page 4

WE regret to learn that in our account of the late floods, we considerably under-estimated the loss suffered by Mr. Daniel Coghlan, the visitation having-left him almost in a state of…

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Great Floods in the Southern District

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 18 June 1864 · page 2

On Friday evening rain commenced falling in Yass and its neighborhood, and continued without, the least intermission, we belive, until Sunday afternoon at two o’clock. During Saturday night the wind blew in…

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