Boxing Day Sports. OFFICIALS.—Judge, The Mayor (Ald. A. H. Collett); starter, A. H. Coppin, Esq; handicappers, Aldermen H. Land, W. B. Freebody, and W. E. Gale, Esq.,; committee, Messrs. W. Freebody, W. Gale, F. W. Hyles, R. Hopkins, T. Jordan, P. Long, G. A. McKeahnie, J. Keeffe, J. N. Murphy. J. Moran, P. Naylor, W. E. Oldfield, C. A. Peden, A. Stuckey and A. Swan; timekeeper, P. W. Hammond, Esq
The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 2
Ideal weather prevailed on Boxing Day when the sports held for the purpose of raising funds to erect homes for war widows and their children took place in…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 February 1919 · page 3
Sir,—The great rains of 1867 caused great floods at Canberra. All the flats on the river were submerged, and the fences were swept away, in some instances acres…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 2
This morning the Murrumbidgee river was in high flood at Tharwa, the water overflowing its banks. The rise is owing unquestionably to heavy rains at the…
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The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 2
Another tremendously heavy thunderstorm visited Bombay on Thursday afternoon, which was even more severe than the one…
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The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 2
The highest flood in the history of this district occurred at Bega last week. The total railfall was 28in. and 72 pointy of which 17in…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 4
1865—This drought broke a few days after the day of prayer held for rain on the 12th January, 1866. A thunderstorm passed over lower…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 2
on Saturday afternoon contributed 12pts. of rain to the local rainfall for this month, which has been only 108 points, the result of three days' rain. The mouth has,…
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The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1919 · page 7
Heavy rain yesterday continued throughout the night and this morning. From 3 o'clock this morning until 9 nearly four inches of…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 July 1919 · page 2
On Peace Day, at 10.10 a.m., just as the citizens of Queanbeyan were entering [?]n their part in the great peace celebrations taking place throughout the…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 July 1919 · page 2
Was born at Duddleswell, Sussex, England, on 22nd February, 1836. She was the youngest child of Mr. John Wheatley, who, with his wife and family, emigrated…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 July 1919 · page 2
At the local Methodist Church on Sunday evening last, in accordance with an intimation previously given through the press, an…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 August 1919 · page 2
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works to which the House of Representatives has referred the…
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The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 September 1919 · page 5
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Australian sheepmen generally are faced with dry times, And are suffering stock losses owing to…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 November 1919 · page 4
There is nothing improbable in the suggestion that the airship NS 1[?] which met with disaster, was struc. by lightning. It is true that there [?]…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 December 1919 · page 2
A heavy downpour caused serious floods of the Greeks in Cootamundra district. The railway line was rendered impassable between Wallendbeen and Cootamundra…
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The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 December 1919 · page 2
Whether the "wobble" of old mother Earth on Wednesday last was responsible or not for the character of the day named—and nothing worse occurred—setting at…
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