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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1890

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Terrific Cyclone

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 2

A terrific cyclone has been experienced at Muscat, a seaport of great commercial Importance on the Indian Ocean and near the cast angle of Arabia. It is estimated that…

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Terrible Storm

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 2

A great storm has occurred in Galicia, It continued for two days, and extended over an area of 2000 square miles of country. The crops were everywhere destroyed, and…

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Reserve from Sale for Refuge from Flood. Land District of Moreh

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 July 1890 · page 6

No. 11,929, within the resumed area of Currygundi holding; an area of 2560 acres…

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Terrific Cyclone. St[?] Capsized

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 July 1890 · page 4

WASHINGTON, July 15. —A terrific cyclone occurred in the State of Minnesota. Many houses were levelled to the ground and many persons perished including 80 deaths th[?]…

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Terrific Thunderstorm. House of Lords Damaged. London, July I8

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 July 1890 · page 4

A THUNDERSTORN of exceptional severity accompanied with torrential rains passed over London and the southern counties yesterday. There are heavy floods in the…

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Reserve from Sale for Refuge from Flood. Land District of Moree

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 July 1890 · page 7

No. 11,929, within the reaumed area of Currygundi holding; an area of 2560 acres…

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Damage by Storms

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 July 1890 · page 3

The storms which occurred in various parts of England have done considerable damage to the crops of wheat, but the barley suffered most…

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Reserve from Sale for Refuge from Flood. Land District of Moree

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 July 1890 · page 4

No. 11,929, within the resumed area of Currygundi holding; an area of 2560 acres…

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Reserve from Sale for Refuge from Flood. Land District of Morbe

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1890 · page 2

No. 11,929, within the resumed area of Currygnndi holding an area of 2560 acres…

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Mr. Gordon on Hunter Floods. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1890 · page 4

SIR,—I was pleased to notice in the resumé of Mr. Gordon's report on flood protection which I read yesterday, that he spoke favourably of the conservation of a portion of the flood waters as an…

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Mr. Gordon on Hunter Floods

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1890 · page 4

Mr. Bruce Smith, the Minister of Public Works, has received (says Thursday's Herald) a communication from Mr. George Gordon, C E, in which he states that his report on…

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Cablegrams. London, Thursday. Storms in France

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 August 1890 · page 2

Destructive storms have occurred in various parts of France. Five hundred houses were wrecked and 30 people lost their lives. Numbers of people, whose…

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Loss or Stock by Floods

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 August 1890 · page 6

A RETURN was on Wednesday presented to Parliament showing the approximate loss of stock through floods in the Bourke, Walgett and Brewarrina…

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Severe Thunderstorms in England

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 September 1890 · page 6

After partial cessation of rain for a few days, there was on the evening of July 17, in the metropolis, the heaviest downpour experienced this very wet season, as well as in the south and…

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Floods in Bohemia

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 September 1890 · page 2

Heavy floods have been experienced in Bohemia and the river Moldava rose to such a being that the old and celebrated bridge at Prague, 1864 feet long, was undermined…

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An Appaling Disaster! the Recent Cyclone in America and Its Awful Results. Its Origin Ectentifically Accounted For, and Some Remote Causes That Produce Painful Effects Explained

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 September 1890 · page 4

THE recent cyclone in American, which left the Ohio Valley a scene of desolation, destroying hundreds of lives and thousands of pounds worth of property, has again called…

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Disastrous Floods

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 September 1890 · page 3

The floods in Austria and Bohemia were of the most disastrous character. The damage is estimated at 4,000,000 florins…

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Race Between a Train and a Cyclone

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 September 1890 · page 2

THE recent devastating cyclone appears to have affected the brains of the Yankee reporters. One of the marvellously "thrilling incidents" of the disasters was the race with…

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Floods in China

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 2

Great floods have occurred in China, rendering four million Celestials homeless…

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River Hunter Floods—Tiieir Mitigation. Melbourne, 12th August, 1890

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1890 · page 4

1. The question of the mitigition of the floods in the Hunter was. in 1871, the subject of a report by a Royal Commission. This report, together with the evidence taken, and a valuable report by Mr…

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