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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1886

2 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Violent Storm near Cootamundra

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 January 1886 · page 2

On Saturday evening, a violent storm of rain and wind occurred near Cootamundra, doing considerably damage to the railway between the two stations Wa[?]. lendbeen and Nubba Siding, on the Great Southern…

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Heavy Rain in Sydney

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 2

THERE was an unusually heavy fall of rain in and around Sydney on Thursday. At about 3 o'clock a heavy shower fell, which was followed in, quick succession by others, some of them accompanied by…

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