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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1884

4 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Tremendous Storm

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1884 · page 2

LONDON, December 12:—Violent gales throughout England last night did much, damage in London, and provinces. Huge trees were torn up and carried away…

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Relie of the Seventy Flood

The Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 29 October 1884 · page 2

A PARTY of miners at Araluen a few days ago unearthed an engine which was lost in the flood of 1870. The engine was the property of Mr. F. Wiso, who, after it was carried away by the flood, offered a…

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Relle of the Seventy Flood

Intelligence · Wednesday 29 October 1884 · page 2

A PARTY of miners at Araluen a few days ago unearthed an engine which was lost in the flood of 1870. The engine was the property of Mr. F. Wise, who, after it was carried away by the flood, offered a…

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The Late Dust Storm. to the Editor of the Bowral Free Press

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 December 1884 · page 3

SIR,—I beileve you may with confidence insert this impression or mine, viz., that yesterday's storm and dust was the result of an earthquake or volcano not far away in the west,…

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