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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1867

6 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Great and Disastrous Floods in the North of England

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1867 · page 2

SERIOUS accounts continue to be received from various parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire of the effects of the floods—which have not only been destructive to property on a large scale, but have…

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Floods in the Southern District

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1867 · page 3

THE damages which have been done by the late floods at Araluen were in no way over-estimated, and the damage that has been done in other parts of the district, as well as in the neighbouring districts, is not…

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The Floods. Dreadful Loss of Life and Great Destruction of Property

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1867 · page 3

THE accounts which reached Sydney on Friday night and Saturday morning, from the flooded districts, were so contradictory and yet alarming, that in order to place our…

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The Flood at Wellington

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 July 1867 · page 2

We have been favoured with the following extract from a btter received this day from Wellington:— On Thursday night the river commenced…

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Floods: Their Causes, Uses, and Remedies. To the Editor of the S. M. Herald

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 July 1867 · page 2

SIR,—After perusal of your leading article of the 25th June, it has occurred to me that a few remarks on the above subject may not be out of place or unacceptable…

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Disastrous Flood at Burrandong.—loss of Life

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 July 1867 · page 2

MR. W. H. SUTTOR has handed us the following letter, written by his son, Mr. F. B. Suttor, from Burrandong, dated 23rd June. The tale it tells adds another appalling…

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