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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1879

4 stories in South Coast's papers

Flood at Wagga Wagga. Friday, March 21

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1879 · page 3

Regarding the temporary railway bridge, it was predicted that should a flood occur in the river the distances between the supports were not sufficiently far apart to allow the drift wood…

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Seizure of the Flood Boats

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 24 July 1879 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT writing from Numba informs us that considerable excitement was caused in that usually quiet locality, by the appearance there of our local guardian of the peace…

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The Flood Boats. a Dastardly Act

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 14 August 1879 · page 2

ON Friday last during the heavy rain-storm which then prevailed, Mr. Williamson, the Engineer of the Shoalhaven Bridge, fearing the possibility of a flood, caused the two boats…

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MISCELLANEOUS. The Easterly Gale

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 25 September 1879 · page 4

ON the subject of the recent gale and rainfall, the Government Astronomer writes to the 'S.M. Herald' of the 11th instant as follows:…

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