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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1866

2 stories in Riverina's papers

Arrival of the English Mail. Wreck of the steamer London, and great loss of life. Death of Dr. Woolley, G. V. Brooke, and others. The New Reform Bill. Terrific Gales Loss of Four Thousand Vessels Projected Tunnel Threatened rupture between Russia and Prussia. SYDNEY, Thursday, 2 p.m

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 19 March 1866 · page 2

THE branch Mail Steamer arrived at Adelaide early this morning. The "Bombay" arrived at King George's Sound on Sunday with the January mails…

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English and Foreign. Gales, Inundations, and Great Snowstorms in England

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 26 March 1866 · page 3

SELDOM has the commencement of a new year been more noted by a dismal record of wrecks on our coasts, and of founderings in the deep seas, than that of the present year. A series of terrific gales…

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