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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1890

11 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Disastrous Cyclone in the United States. Appalling Loss of Life. Four Thousand Houses in Ruins. London, March, 28

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 April 1890 · page 3

A CYCLONIC storm of the most violent character last night swept over the northern portion of the State of Kentucky. In its progress lay the city of Louisville, the capital of the State, and the…

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Our Roads and the Floods

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 April 1890 · page 2

MR. McCourt, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Public Works Department:—"Department of Public Works Sydney, 20th March, 1890.—Sir,—I am…

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Great Floods in Arkansas

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 5 April 1890 · page 3

LONDON, March 81.—Portion of Baxter county in the State of Arkansas, has been flooded by the rise of the rivers. Part of the flooded area is said to be submerged to a depth of…

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Flood Vote for Roads in the Berrima District

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 9 April 1890 · page 2

THROUGH the instrumentality of our senior member, Mr. W. McCourt, M. L. A., the government have voted a sum of money for repairs to the roads in this distriot, which sustained much damage by the…

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The Floods at Walgett. Three Hundred Persons Homeless. Disastrous Losses in Stock. Walgrtt

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 2

The flood iB gradully subsiding, but more water is reported as coming down the Namoi and Barwon. The losses in stock are most disastrous. Thousands of dead carcases…

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The Floods at Bourke

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 April 1890 · page 3

TUESDAY'S Herald had the following: In view of the fact that Mr. M'Millan has so ably coped with the demand necessited by the unprecedented damage caused…

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The Floods in the West. Great Anxiety at Bourke. a Serious Leakage in the Embankment. the Railway Line Cut to Relieve the Town. Bourke

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 3

LAST night was one of alarms. This morning was very little better, and this evening news may be to hand at any minute that the dams have givenn way, and that the…

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Flood Brevities

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 3

The one important question ever and anon being asked by the flood-confined unfortunates at Bourke is,—"How long will it last?"…

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The Flood at Bourke. Appalling Devastation

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 2

BOURKE, Sunday, 2 p.m.—When Oxley stood upon the mountain named after himself and saw the Darling in a state of flood, he went back to civilization to report the…

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Municipalities' Liability for Flood

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 30 July 1890 · page 2

AFTER a hearing which extended over about twelve days, the action Lee v. the Borough of Waverley, for damages to his property from storm water, was brought to a…

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The Flood Vote

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 August 1890 · page 2

BOWRAL has received £225 from the Flood Vote, Moss Vale £200, and Mittagong £50. If the respective municipalities named had the privilege of apportioning the vote,…

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