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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1879

21 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 2

Heavy Rain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1879 · page 2

THE late threatening aspect of the weather culminated yesterday in a welcome and much needed downpour of rain, lasting for several hours. From many outlying districts a cry…

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