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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1888

3 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Greyt Floods in China. Enormous Loss of Life. Two Millions of People Homeless. London. Jan. 5

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 January 1888 · page 2

Intelligence has been received to the effect that a grrat overflow of the Moang-Ho, or Yellow River, in China, has taken place, inundating a large tract of country…

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Storm and Calm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 30 May 1888 · page 2

All day the angry south wind roaring past With warm, tumultuous showers of fitful rain, Rattled upon my Streaming window-pane, And through the autumn woodlands driving fast,…

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The Recent Thunderstorms

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 2

The severity of the thunderstorms which have recently visited various parts, principally of the coast districts, have been almost phenomenal, and several fatal…

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