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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1876

2 stories in South Coast's papers

Floods in Tasmania. (From the Hobart Town Mercury Dec. 31)

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1876 · page 3

THE main road at Oatlands was flooded, and a considerable area of land under crop submerged. At St. Peter’s Pass the floods have caused much more extensive damage. The…

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Destructive Floods and high Tides in the Thames

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Wednesday 16 February 1876 · page 2

The tide in the Thames River on Monday morning readied a higher mark than ever known before. Greenwich and the lowlands along the river were partially inundated, and numerous…

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