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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1873

4 stories in Murray's papers

Original Poetry. a Thunderstorm

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 4 June 1873 · page 3

Who can understand a thunderstorm ? The face of Heaven frowns with blackness, And the air is heated by the seething lightnings form…

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Great Floods Expected on the Darling

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 July 1873 · page 2

By the Bourke Telegraph we have the following under date of 30st June: — “BOURKE, Monday. “The arrival of some of the overdue…

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Floods at the Upper Darling

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 July 1873 · page 4

We take the following from the Bourke Telegraph dated 7th July (noon):— “Since Saturday we have bad no news from up the river, further than rumours of the Culgoa…

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Floods on the Darling

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 26 July 1873 · page 5

There is reason to fear that the Darling country will be flooded this year to nearly or quite as great an extent us it was about eight years since. At that time the waters of the…

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