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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1865

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Detailed Account of the Gale. Advertiser and Mail Office, Cape Town, Thursday afternoon

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1865 · page 2

It is but with a sad heart we sit down to describe the tragic catastrophes of yesterday, while the dead bodies of those whom only twenty-four short hours ago we reckoned among our fastest friends are still…

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Cape of Good Hope. Tremendous Gale in Table Bay.—total Loss of the R.m.s. Athens and Seventeen Other Vessels

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1865 · page 2

WE (South Australian Register) have received, per Doon, Captain Munro, from Mauritius, a copy of the South African Advertiser, of the 20th May, which gives full details of one of the greatest catastrophes…

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