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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1867

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Disastrous Floods. Loss of Life and Great Destruction of Property

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 1 July 1867 · page 2

IT is again our painful duly to record floods of a most disastrous character, in the Nepean, the Hawkesbury, and the Hunter, consequent on the late heavy rains—floods greater than…

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Select Poetry. Appeal on Behalf of the Sufferers by the Late Floods

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 29 July 1867 · page 4

Hebrews, l3th chapter, 16th verge, and St. John, 3rd chapter, 17th verse. Oh! hark throughout this land of heard a cry of woe…

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Heavy Gale. Loss of Two Pilot Boats at Sydney Heads

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 5 August 1867 · page 2

SCARCELY have the effects of the late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, ere it is our painful duty to record a terrible disaster on the return of boisterous weather. On…

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