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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1905

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Cyclone at Kalgoorlie. Perth, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 January 1905 · page 3

A violent cyclone swept over Kalgoorlie yesterday. Several buildings collapsed and many were badly damaged. A number of…

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Terrific Cyclone This Month

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 2

The Brisbane weather prophet, Mr. Gibbons, writes as follows : -- Having received from various parts of Queensland anxious inquiries as to…

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Last Night's Wires. Heavy Storm in Sydney. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 February 1905 · page 5

Last night's b storm caused a great amount of damage in the city. Many shops were flooded…

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Killed in the Storm. a Swagman Struck by Lightning

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 February 1905 · page 5

Our Brushgrove correspondent wired last night:--A man, about 33 years of age, and carrying a swag, was struck by lightning and killed near Northcott's,…

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Severe Thunderstorm Man Struck Dead by Lightning

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 4

A thunderstorm of unusual severity passed through the district on Wednesday afternoon. The rain fell heavily, and the lightning was particularly vivid, being…

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Last Week's Storm

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 3

THE lighting in the storm which passed along the river on Tuesday last was very heavy on the upper and middle Clarence. At Grafton two cows were struck dead in the western side of the…

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Storm on the Hastings

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon last a cyclonic storm passed over the Hastings district. At Wauchope 225 points of rain fell in 35 minutes, and a house…

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Heavy Storm

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 2

The heavy thunderstorm which passed over Bellingen on Wednesday week was not confined to this district. On the same day a cyclonic storm passed over the Hastings…

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The Storms

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 2

Tho heavy storms experienced on Saturday and Sunday seriously interfered with the telegraphic service. Lines are down in all directions and…

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Rivers in Flood. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1905 · page 5

Tho Bellinger River has risen seventeen feet at Bellingen and Nambucca, and twenty feet at Bowraville. The Orara is in heavy flood. The damage…

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"No Flood News."

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 8

Mr. Editor.—Judging by the wail. of your Ulmarra correspondent anent the non receipt of news from Copmanhurst the general public are led to the conclusion that some one failed to do…

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Re Scarcity of Flood News in Ulmarra

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 April 1905 · page 5

Mr. Editor.—To people possessing the ordinary amount of intelligence, it must come as a matter of surprise that Ulmarra should be the only centra on the Lower…

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Reporting Flood News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 April 1905 · page 5

Mr. Editor.—In regard to letter written by "Fair Play" appearing in Tuesday's issue, I beg to state that the Ulmarra correspondent's paragraph re news of rise in…

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Flood News From Copmanhurst

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 5

Mr. Editor.—I noticed a letter in Saturday's "Examiner" signed "Upper Copmanhurst," re the grievance of no flood news from Copmanhurst. I do not intend to…

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Flood News From Copmanhurst

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 5

Mr. Editor.—For the information of our down river friends. Lwish, through the columns of your valued paper, to state that there exists at Copmanhurst a post and…

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The Orara Flood

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 24 April 1905 · page 2

A correspondent writes : -- The late flood in the Orara has left its marks behind. Many of the corn fields have erratic bands of prostrate stalks,…

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Copmanhurst Flood News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 8

Mr. Editor.—In reply, to a letter aigned by the secretary of the Copmanhurst Progress Association, I will endeavour to enlighten you upon this important question. The…

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Short Story The Flooded Gallery

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 2

A way up in Trumgelly, in Wales, they tell the story to this day, and the memory of it moistens the eyes of many a rough gray- bearded miner. It was a hot july…

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Floods in Tasmania. (By Telegram.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 5

SYDNEY, ThimIny—Thoro. nruilobd.s in TuHiuunia. tho llrnt for ninny years. Halb' wnv trafile boCviSbn'TTobnrt and Launceston is blocked. Jflles bf country 'ure…

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Underground Railway Flooded. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1905 · page 5

The New York Tube Railway became flooded, and the passengers waded through four feet of water…

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