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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1866

2 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Terrific Gale Along the Coast. Total Loss of the Cawarra, Steamer, with Fifty-nine Lives

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 19 July 1866 · page 3

THE terrific gale which commenced on Wednesday and which continued without intermission the whole or yesterday, prepared the public to some extent for tidings of shipwreck and disaster. But…

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The Floods at the Manning

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1866 · page 2

IT has pleased the Almighty Disposer of human events, to visit the Manning with the most fearful display of His power it has ever been our lot to witness. A week ago, people spoke of the great…

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