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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1869

5 stories in Riverina's papers

Storm in Gundagai

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1869 · page 2

WE are fortunate in not having to chronicle anything so serious as the grand elemental commotion that wrought such havoc at Wagga Wagga on the 29th alt., but we had a very…

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A City Swept Away by a Flood

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 28 April 1869 · page 4

The Mexican city, Alamos, Sonora, has been destroyed by a flood. On the 15th December wind and rain, storm set in, lasting until the 18th. It seemed as if the very flood-gates of heaven had opened, and that a…

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Floods in the Hawkesbury District

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1869 · page 2

The heavy rains which have visited the Metropolis during tho Agricultural Society's Exhibition have extended over the whole county of Cumberland, and along the coast as…

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The Charge Against Mr. Flood

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 22 September 1869 · page 3

AT the Hay Police Court, on the 10th instant, Edward John Flood, publican was charged on Summons, with having in his possession a cheque for £20, which cheque belonged to…

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Flood at Ballarat

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 4

SINCE the year 1855 no such destructive flood has been known at Ballarat as that which took place on Saturday the 16th inst. Shortly after midnight the rain commenced and fell…

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