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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1903

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The Queanbeyan Tragedy. Gale Sentenced to Death

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 October 1903 · page 2

GOULBURN, Tuesday.—At the Quarter Sessions last night, before Mr. Justice Pring, the trial of Charles Augustus Gale for the murder by shooting of his wife at…

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Violent Thunderstorms

Goulburn Herald · Friday 16 October 1903 · page 2

THE storms during Tuesday night spread over most of the state, and in parts considerable damage was done to the crops. At Mudgeo a valuable mare was killed by lightning,…

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Floods in the United States. London, Oct. 12

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 16 October 1903 · page 4

THE recent heavy rains in the North-eastern. portion of the United States have caused floods in New Jersey. The…

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The Queanbeyan Murder. Gale Found Guilty, and Sentenced to Death. Recommendation to Mercy

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 4

At the Goulburn Circuit Court, which opened on Monday before Mr. Justice Pring, Charles Augustus Gale was charged with the murder of Susan Gale, his wife,…

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Destructive Storms

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 20 October 1903 · page 4

A THUNDERSTORM of great violence, accompanied by heavy rain and large ha[?]lstones and wind of cyclone force, passed over the Cassilis district to the…

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Latest Telegrams. [By Wire.] Terriffic Storm at Broken Hill. SYDNEY

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 2

A deluge of rain, accompanied by a terrific cyclone, passed over Broken Hill yesterday. The rain fell in torrents for…

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A River Flood

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 2

Folk wore not a little surprised on Tuesday to see the Yam river come down a banker about luncheon time. There was no rain in the immediate…

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Terrific Storms At Charters Towers

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday.—News from Charters Towers states an unprecedented hailstorm, causing damage to the amount of £10,000, occured this…

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Storm at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 December 1903 · page 4

During a disastrous hailstorm in Yass district on Monday Mr. Argyle M'Callum had 60 acres of standing wheat beaten into the ground and thrashed out. He is the heaviest sufferer, and will…

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Cyclones and Storms

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 December 1903 · page 3

A HEAT wave, accompanied by-violent dust-storms, set in on Friday morning in the inland districts. At Brewarrina the thermometer registered 111 in the shade…

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Sunday's Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

Murrumburrah.—Thunderstorms occurred all day on Sunday. In the evening very heavy rain fell, registering 135 points. A terrific hailstorm followed at Demondrille Greek,…

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Terrific Storm on the Murrumbidgee

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon the district was again visited with a terrific strom which seemed lo expend it greatests violence along tho valley of tho Murrumbidgee…

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Telegrams. Gunning, Monday. Storm at Gunning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 4

A severe hailstorm yesterday afternoon damaged gardens and crops, and a sudden rise in the river flooded the lower part of the town. Fencing and crops were carried away. Two inches of rain fell…

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Heavy Thunderstorm

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon last about four o'clock a heavy thunderstorm passed over Crookwell and-district. Rain fell in torrents, accompanied at…

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Sunday's Storm

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 23 December 1903 · page 3

How uncertain is farming was further exemplified on Sunday last, crops that in the morning stood invitingly waiting the harvester totally destroyed before sundown…

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The Yass Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 4

Yass, Tuesday.—Further particulars of Sunday's storm show that considerable damage has been caused throughout the district. At Hayes's farm, near Jeir, almost every tree in a 40-acre paddock…

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Sundays Storm

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 December 1903 · page 2

How uncertain is farming (says the Young Chronicle), was further exemplified on Sunday last. Crops that in the morning stood invitingly waiting the harvester…

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Last Sunday's Storm

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 December 1903 · page 2

DURING last Sunday's storm a dog at Redground was killed dead and a child injured. This was a son of Mr. James Butt, the lad being rendered…

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