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

Floods & storms, 1907

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Cable News. Great Storms. British Telegraphs Down. London, Dec. 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 4

The snowstorms have been of almost unexampled severity. Several trains were snowed up between Carlisle and Edinburgh. The passengers of one train were…

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Flood of Whisky. Ten People Injured and One Killed. Carts Caught in Deluge

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 2

THE Lock Katrine Distillery, on the south side of Glasgow, was the scene of an extraordinary incident on the morning of November 20. —A “wash-charter“—a huge vessel containing about…

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Storm on the Riviera

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 2

THE tale of the damage done by the great storm on the Riviera is a fearful one. The storm was the most disastrous experienced for a quarter of a century (says a Paris…

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Cloud -turrets and Storms

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 5

A scientific explanation of the connection between the imposing masses of cumulus clouds, piled up in aspiring white turrets, which are popularly called "thunder…

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Thunderstorms

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 January 1907 · page 2

A TERRIFIC storm passed over Dungog on Thursday evening. The wind blew with hurricane force, snapping off large branches of trees. Heavy rain fell, accompanied by…

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Gale.—Loss of Life

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 4

One of the strongest gales experienced for years raged along the coast on Sunday. The highest velocity recorded at Sydney was 73½ miles. A number steamers and sailing vessels broke their…

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Floods at Cooma

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

There have been heavy rains in Cooma, resulting in floods. Stock were drowned, and fences washed away, and fruit was destroyed on the trees. A man named Butler,…

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Floods in New Zealand

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 4

Wellington, Tuesday.—Reports from all parts of tile colony show that the drought has broken up. Heavy rain has fallen at many places near Auckland. The washouts extend over 40…

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The Cooktown Cyclone

Goulburn Herald · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 3

FURTHER investigation discloses still more damage done by Saturday's cyclone than has already been reported. The Cook District Hospital, situated on the outskirts of the…

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Cyclone at Cooktown. the Whole Town Damaged

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 1

Cooktown, Tuesday.--The most disastrous calamity that has ever befallen Cooktown was experienced during Friday night…

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Australian Trader in a Cyclone

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 January 1907 · page 4

The British barque Mclanope, which is a well-known trader to Australia, last month had a sensational experience near Astoria (America). She ran into a…

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Terrific Storm

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 4

During a rainstorm lasting 10 minutes at Honkong 50 boats were swamped and 100 persons drowned. Six British warships in the harbour rescued 150 boatmen…

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The Cooktown Cyclone. a Graphic Description. by an Eye-witness

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 4

MR. DAVID LINDSAY, of Adelaide, who was aboard the Aramac at Cook town daring the recent- cyclone, arrived at Brisbane on Thursday…

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Gale at Muchigan

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 February 1907 · page 4

A gale blew 20 wooden houses at Sand Point on to the ice of Lake Muchigan. The sleeping occupants, aroused by the movement of their houses, escaped from…

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Steamer in a Cyclone

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 February 1907 · page 4

THE steamer South Australia, which arrived in Sydney from Suva on Saturday last, ran into the tail end of the Cooktown cyclone. The vessel received a very bad buffeting, and…

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Thunderstorm in Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 February 1907 · page 4

At about half-past two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon a heavy thunderstorm passed over Goulburn. The rain came down in sheets for a brief period, 71 point being registered in four minutes…

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Heavy Storms

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 February 1907 · page 2

On Monday afternoon last a terrific storm, accompanied with vivid lightning, passed across the Yass Plains when very heavy rain fell. At…

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Specially Attractive Serial. New Novel. Secured for Original Publication in Our Columns. We have arranged to publish commencing Next Week a New Novel of Love and Incident, by the author of Footprints in the Snow.' It Is Entitled a Country Sweetheart, and It Is From the Pen of Miss Dora Russell, Author of 'The Broken Seal,' 'The Last Signal, 'The Track of The Storm,' 'The Vicar's Governess,' 'Hidden in My Heart, 'A Strange Message,' 'A Fatal Past,' &c., &c., &c

The Burrowa News · Friday 15 February 1907 · page 2

MISS DORA RUSSELL is a favourite author, and her stories are universally acceptable. For sound sensational stories, suitable for family reading, we knew none to surpass Miss Russell's. Her charters are lifelike, her plots ingenious, intricate, and interesting; and every chapter…

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Flood in Algeria

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1907 · page 4

Bona, a town on the sea coast of Algeria, has been flooded. Thousands of people are housed in the municipal and other buildings. Bread is scarce. A number of natives have…

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Severe Gales

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 2

Severe gales have occurred in England and northern Europe the wind attaining a velocity of 60 miles an hour…

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