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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1871

4 stories in Riverina's papers

Insurance Against Floods. (From the Sydney Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 3

THE reports that reach the city from some of the country districts are of in alarming nature. The heavy rains that have fallen during the last few days have swollen the…

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Disastrous Floods. Gundagai

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 2

OUR farmers have been calling out for rain, weather prophets have been predicting a dry winter, and in answer to the former and in confutation of the latter the first flood of the…

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Weathering the Deluge

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 12 August 1871 · page 4

"DON'T yer suppose, sir, that there was uncomfortability of temper enough in Noah's ark, with all them odds and ends of creation, creeters that wasn't…

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Before the Deluge. (All the Year Round.)

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1871 · page 4

HOW came the bones of elephants, tigers, and such animals as can only exist in tropical regions, to be found at the verge of the pole, at Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla? How…

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