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Floods & storms, 1870

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Great Flood at Gundagai. Three Lives Lost

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1870 · page 2

WEDNESDAY 27TH INST.—Gundngai has been visited by the, greatest flood that has taken place since the disastrous inundation of June 1852, which swept away-the-old township…

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The Flood at Goulbuhn. (From the Goulburn Herald of Wednesday.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 4 May 1870 · page 4

YESTERDAY there was the highest flood ever witnessed in Goulburn. Up to the present the flood of 1864 had been the highest known in this district. The waters then…

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The Flood at West Maitland. Thursday, 5 p.m

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 4 May 1870 · page 3

BY the courtesy of Messrs. Bewick and Beeston, of the Railway department, I arrived in Maitland an hour ago. The scene presented oh all sides beggars description—…

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The Flood at Yass. (From the Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 4 May 1870 · page 4

MAIL and telegraphic communication, with the Southorn district having been interrupted for the last two days, no information was received respecting the floods, which were…

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Geeat Flood at Gundagai. Three Lives Lost. Wednesday, 27th April

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 4 May 1870 · page 4

GUNDAGAI has been visited by the greatest flood that has taken place since the disastrous inundation of June, 1852, which swept away the old township situated on the river flats,…

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Flood in the Lachlan

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 4 May 1870 · page 3

JUST before going to press we (Burrangong Angus) hear that the western approach to the Cowra Bridge has been washed away, and the three arches which span the river…

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Wagga Advertiser. "This is true liberty, when frooborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free." Milton. Wednesday, May 4, 1870. Disastrous Flood. Tremendous Destruction, of Property

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 4 May 1870 · page 2

As most of our readers will have heard before, this slieet reaches them, the district has been visited by one of the heaviest floods ever known here within…

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Flood at Dubbo

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 4

ON Saturday the Macquarie commenced rising, and on Sunday, at midnight, was nearly two feet higher than the flood of June 1857. Stacks, stables, huts, bullocks, horses,…

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Disastrous Flood. Tremendous Destruction of Property

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 4

As most of our readers will have heard before this sheet reaches them, the district has been visited by one of the heaviest floods ever known here within the memory…

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The Floods in the Mudgee District

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 4

ON Thursday evening, says the Western Post of 26th ult., heavy rain set in, continuing throughout the night and the next day. Lawson's Creek rose rapidly; Mr. Mann,…

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The Flood. Further Particulars

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 2

There is little as yet to add to the report in our last issue of the flood and its effects The sources of reliable information as to the damage outside…

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The Floods. [A portion of the following was issued as an Extraordinary on Tuesday.] Wagga Wagga

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 4

We are indebted for the following particulars relative to the flood at Wagga Wagga to our townsman, Mr A. H. Webb, who left that township for Gundagai on Sunday morning:—…

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The Late Floods

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 2

The news from other districts of the havoc wrought by what we may, fortunately, now call the late floods, reveals how wide-spread has been the disaster they have occasioned…

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Flood Relief Committee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 11 May 1870 · page 2

THIS body has lield its usual daily meetings since our last report. On MONDAY, MAY 9, There were present:—Messrs. Forsyth…

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Another Flood Feared

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 2

We have been favoured by Senior-sergeant Condell with a copy of the following telegram, received by him from Captain Battye:— COOMA, Friday, 10 a.m…

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Wagga Advertiser "This is true liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free." Milton. Wednesday, May 18, 1870. the Flood

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 18 May 1870 · page 2

THE predictions expressed in our last issue have been verified. Another flood has swept down the valley of the river, causing very considerable…

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The Flood at Hay

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 18 May 1870 · page 2

The long-expected flood, says the correspondent of the Pastoral Times, has come at last, but has not proved such a formidable afiair as we had been…

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Another Flood

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 2

If the present weather continues floods will shortly cease to be a novelty, and we may yet have to record as a noteworthy fact that the Gundagai river-flats were on a certain date seen…

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Floods Relief Fund. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 1 June 1870 · page 3

DEAR SIR,—I am surprised to find that up to date no list of the subscriptions to the Floods Relief Fund has been published. It is only fair to both contributors and collectors…

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Flood Dwellings

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 4

MUCH has been said relative to the necessity of insisting on the movement of the settlers from flooded districts, or requiring those who insist on living…

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