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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1878

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Floods in Sydney and Suburbs. A Woman Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 3

THE fearful storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by torrents of rain, which swept over the city and suburbs of Sydney on Tuesday night…

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Commercial Report of the Late Flood in the Mulloon

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 February 1878 · page 1

THE flood here has been unprecedented. The Mulloon is probably inverted and passing in panorama overhead, for the aspect out of doors much resembles the penny plain and tuppenoe…

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Floods in London

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 29 May 1878 · page 4

ALL the southern districts of London and also various neighbourhoods north of the Thames were yesterday morning visited by floods, consequent upon the heavy rain of…

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Mr. Gale

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 2

The proprietor of this journal is, we regret to say, still unable to attend to his ordinary business, although in a fair way of recovery The typhoid usually leaves its…

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Heavy Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 2

On Friday evening, the 20th instant, a storm broke over Queanbeyan, the rain falling in such torrents that Monaro-street was soon submerged in front of the Royal Hotel…

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