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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1893

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The Bar Won Floods. Sydney, Sunday night

National Advocate · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 2

The flood in the Barwon reached its greatest height on Saturday, but another fresh is coming down the river, which is expected to do more damage. Boats…

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Queensland Floods. Assistance From London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 3

The Queensland Flood Relief Fond committee formed in London has received donations amounting to £1400. The City Guilds have passed a vote ia aid of the fund…

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The Clarence and Richmond Floods. Lismore Inundated. People Flying From Grafton. Destruction of Crops. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 2

News from the Clarence and Richmond River reports that every part of Lismore is inundated. The water has reached the eaves of many of the houses at…

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The Floods in Queensland. Another Visitation. Terrible Destruction. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 2

Brisbane has been visited by another another serious flood, which yesterday almost reached the level of the recent flood. Heavy rain accompanied by a terrible easterly gale…

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The Queensland Deluge. Again the Waters Rise. and Submerge Brisbane. and All Surrounding Districts. Heart-rending Scenes. the Rescue of the Women and Children. Sydney, Monday night

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

The flood at Brisbane is now truly terrible, and the people have given up hope. Ten inches of rain again fell in 24 hours ending on Friday evening, and…

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The Richmond Floods. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

Lismore is now completely submerged and the people have had to fly to the top storeys of the buildings. The river at Casino is 40ft. over the ordinary…

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Second Edition. the Floods. Public Meeting at Bathurst. Practical Sympathy. a Committee Formed. Relief Fund Established

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

A public meeting was held in the Town Hall last evening to consider the best means to take in order to afford assistance to the sufferers by the recent…

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The Clarence Floods. Sydney, Monday night. SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

A tremendous gale blew over Graf ton on Friday night, and the river is 67 feet over lovel and rising at the rate of over a foot an hour. The whole of Tenterfield is all in flood which extends to Deepwater. A man named Sheehan was drowned on Saturday night…

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The Flood at Kempsey. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

The Macleay expects to chronicle its worst flood. At Kempsey six inches of rain fell on Friday and Friday night,…

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The Floods in Queensland. Further Particulars. Waters Subsiding. Steamer Playing in the Streets. Farmers Ruined. General Distress. Brisbane

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

The flood water are subsiding, though a large portion of the city is still submerged. The loss from the second visitation has been comparatively small, as the bulk of, the goods…

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The Clarence and Richmond River Floods

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

Nearly the whole of the maize crops in the Clarence district have been destroyed, and a number of bridges and culverts have been washed away, all the roads being in…

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Flood Belief Fond. Sympathy in Bathurst

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

Last evening a public meeting was held in the Town Hall for the purpose of organising a fond for the relief of those who have suffered by the floods in Queensland, and…

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The Queensland Deluge. Sydney, Tuesday night

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

The following circular has been sent out by the Sydney Committee appointed in connection with the relief funds:— "The great calamity which has lately…

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The Clarence Floods. Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

The Clarence district is still inundated, but the weather has now cleared. The damage done in Grafton, where a landslip has occurred at Maclean, is very…

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The Richmond Floods. Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

The weather has broken, and the flood waters are rapidly subsiding. The damage to Lismore is very great, and to the crops incalculable. Boats are being…

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The Floods in Queensland. the Relief Fund. Waters Subsiding. 400 Families in Brisbane Homeless. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

Up to yesternight the Central Committe of the Queensland Relief Fund in Sydney received £4,800 The flood waters are rapidly subsiding…

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The Floods in the North

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

GRAFTON, Tuesday.—The flood waters are rapidly subsiding, and it is considered that the worst in past. The water is off Prince street to the centre of the intersection…

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The Queensland Deluge. Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 23 February 1893 · page 2

The floods in Brisbane are now subsiding but the fresh in the great is so great that it is quite unnavigable. Astronomer Wragge says that he…

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To-day's Telegrams Sydney, Thursday. The Queensland Floods. the Relief Fund

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 23 February 1893 · page 2

The performance at Her Majesty'! Theatre yesterday its expected to realise £200 for the Queensland relief fond. The total amount received by the…

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The Queensland Deluge. Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 24 February 1893 · page 2

The total amount so far received in aid of the flood sufferers readies to close on £13,000. A boy named Cross was drowned at Bulimba on Monday…

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