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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1887

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Late Telegrams. Flood at Gundagai. GUNDAGAI

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1887 · page 4

The Murrumbidgee river began to rise about daybreak on Sunday, and between 7 and 10 o'clock a.m. it rose eight feet and continued rising till after dark. The weather…

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Mr. Gale at Coolamon. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Coolamon

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1887 · page 3

MR JOHN GALE'S meeting here to-day was well attended. The candidate, who created a favourable impression, gave extended views on a wide range of political subjects, giving…

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Mr. Gale at Narandera. (From Our Special Correspondent.) [By Telegraph] Narandera

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 2

Mr. Gale addressed a large meeting here last night, in M'Mahon's Hill. Mr. Armstrong (the Mayor) presided. The building was crowded, and the meeting gave the…

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Mr. Gale at Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1887 · page 2

On Saturday night last Mr. Gale, who has announced himself as a candidate for the representation of the electorate, in the interests of Protection, addressed a large number of…

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Public Reception of Mr. John Gale, M.P. for the Murrumbidgee, at Queanbeyan. (Queanbeyan Age, March 8.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1887 · page 2

YESTERDAY our fellow-townsman, who so successfully contested the electorate of the Murrumbidgee, returned to Queanbeyan from Wagga Wagga, where he had been to…

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Disastrous Cyclone in the Bat of Bengal

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 July 1887 · page 4

THE Times of India, of June 4, furnishes the following reports regarding an extraordinarily disastrous cyclone which passed over the Bay of Bengal at the…

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The Weather on the Coast, a Heavy Gale. '

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 2

As will be seen by our late telegraphic intellegence very severe weather has been experienced on the coast. The Herald of yesterday says:—One of the heaviest…

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