Terrific Storm at Drayton, Queensland
THE Toowoomba papers of Wednesday, the 19th instant, advise us of a frightful storm near Drayton, on Saturday week. It seems to have been the most violent of the season,…
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Floods & storms, 1870
12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Latest Intelligence. [Through Greville's Telegram Company.] Rockhampton. Calamitous Floods at Clermont Loss of Fight Lives. Cyclone and Loss of Life at Bowen Monday Night
Floods are still rising on the Fitzory River. and the waters have reached within a short distance of the highest flood marks. Most disastrous news has been received from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and District News. the Weather and Floods
MORE rainy weather has been experienced throughout the Queanbeyan district during the past week. A thuderstorm prevailed on Sunday, and the fall of rain resulted in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and District News. Heavy Rains and Destructive Floods at Queanbeyan. Tuesday Afternoon
THE unusually heavy and continuous rains of the past week, with all the inconveniences and other unpleasant consequences attendant on a superabundance of wet weather,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods. Further Local and District Particulars
AT the time of publishing our last issue the district had been deprived of all communication for several days. The information then in our possession was very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To my Neighbours who assisted me during the late flood
GENTLEMEN,—Allow me publicly to thank you for the very generous manner you in which came forward to assist me in removing from my mill a quantity of flour, and raising to the upper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Flood at Wagga Wagga
UNFORTUNATELY for the district, the flood, which we predicted in our issue of Wednesday last, has passed with disastrous effect over the devoted valley of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Flood at Gundagai.—three Lives Lost
WEDNESDAY, 27TH APRIL.—Gundagai has been visited by the greatest flood that has taken place since the disastrous inundation of June, 1852, which swept away the old…
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WE have to report another series of disastrous floods, which, like the previous visitation, appear to have been general throughout the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lachlan Flood
THE Bathurst Free Press, of Saturday, publishes a portion of a private letter from Mr George Richardson, of Goolagang, on the Lachlan, It runs as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Select Poetry. Rain. [Written During the Floods.]
Rain, Rain—Nothing but rain! Sapping the upland, flooding the plain; Drowning our cattle, spoiling our grain—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Storm at Kiama. Tuesday morning, 10 o'clock
A southerly burster, accompanied with a thunder-storm, passed over the town last evening. The lightning was very vivid. One flash struck a house in course…
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