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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1887

3 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

Floods in Egypt

The Western Herald · Saturday 5 November 1887 · page 5

THE Daily Chronicle correspondent at Cairo says:—Official statistics show that up to the present 800 families in Upper Egypt have been rendered destitute by the inundation…

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Terrible Storm Off the Shetland Isles. London, Dec. 12

The Western Herald · Wednesday 14 December 1887 · page 5

A terrible storm has occurred off the coast of the Shetland Islands. A fleet of fishing vessels was wrecked and twenty-four fishermen drowned…

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Heavy Floods in the Maitland District. Sydney, Dec. 30

The Western Herald · Saturday 31 December 1887 · page 3

The late rains have caused heavy floods in the Maitland district and the railway line between East and West Maitland is in danger of being washed away…

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