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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1864

15 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Floods in the Hunter

The Golden Age · Thursday 18 February 1864 · page 3

There have been great floods in the northern districts during the past week, as may be gathered from the following telegrams to the Empire:—…

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Floods in the North

The Araluen Star and Miners' Right · Saturday 27 February 1864 · page 4

WEST MAITLAND.—On the evening of Saturday the overflow of the river continued pouring across High street from opposite Mr. Chivers’…

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Disastrous Floods

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 15 June 1864 · page 2

UPWARDS of four years have elapsed since it has been our painful duty to record such a flood as has been experienced in this district during the…

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Flood at Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1864 · page 2

The heavy rains reported last week to have fallen in other parts of the colony, visited us last Saturday and Sunday, causing a high fresh in the river. The water rose rapidly at…

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The Flood at Collector

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1864 · page 2

I dare say that from the various reports you are doubtless receiving from surrounding districts, you are led to exclaim, with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner,—"Water, water,…

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Great Floods at Goulburn and Loss of Life. Abridged from the Goulburn Herald [?]

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1864 · page 2

SUNDAY last witnessed the highest flood yet known in the district of Goulburn. Thursday was beautifully [?] on Friday morning rain commenced, and continued…

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The Recent Flood at Araluen. (From the Araluen Star.)

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 June 1864 · page 3

AMIDST redundant hopes and bright anticipation as regards the pr[?]ects of the Valley, we published our last issue. For months have the…

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The Floods

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 30 June 1864 · page 3

Give freely, ye who have to spare Of luxuries this world affords; For bitter want and dread despair Now frown upon the poor's abodes…

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Araluen. Floods Relief Meeting

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1864 · page 2

PURSUANT to advertisement a meeting was held at Mr. Kingsland’s last night, T. L. Crommelin, Esq., P.M., being voted to the chair. He having…

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Another Flood

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1864 · page 2

RAIN, steady, heavy, and continuous, for a period of thirty hours, fell in this district on Thursday and Friday last, causing a rapid rise in the rivers, and another and more…

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Flood at Yass

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1864 · page 3

THE rain which commenced during Wednesday night fell so heavily and continuously the following day that sheets of water began to rush down every channel in and about the…

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Another Flood at Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1864 · page 3

WE have been visited by another flood. Though at the time of writing the waters are about four feet lower than on the 21st of last month when they reached a point never before…

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The Weather and the Floods

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1864 · page 3

IT commenced raining again in Sydney on Tuesday night, and continued gently with occasional intermissions, and without much wind, until Thursday evening, when it…

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Floods in Old Times

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 28 July 1864 · page 2

THE following is extracted from "Flanagan's History of New South Wales:"—"After a drought—in March, 1799, the Hawkesbury rose 50 feet; one man was…

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Calamitous Floods on the Macleay River

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1864 · page 3

A TERRIBLE calamity—one from which the Macleay will not recover for some time—if it recover from it at all—visited the district last week The loss of property is beyond…

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