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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1905

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Gale in Great Britain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 January 1905 · page 3

A gale lasting only a few hours has done great have throughout Great Brieain. Several fatalities are reported by land and sea. The Thames was flooded, and of…

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A Gale at Suva

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 January 1905 · page 3

A cable from Suva states that a strong gales is raging and the steamer Miowera has been compelled to cause loading…

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Floods on the English Coast

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 3

Floods caused by extraordinary high tides have occurred on the eastern coast of, England. Enormous damage has been done to piers and promenades at Searborough,…

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Henty. Destructive Cyclone

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 3

A destructive cyclone occurred at Henty yesterday, accompanied by a terrific thunderstorm. Houses and trees were levelled in all directions. Two railway trucks were blown…

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Cyclone at Wollar. Men, Women, and Children in Prayer

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 4

Someone older than the oldest resident of Wollar will need to be found who can tell of any such cyclone as the one which swept over that…

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Cyclone at Herty. Houses and Trees Blown Down. Railway Station Suffers

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 January 1905 · page 1

On Monday night a cyclonic stern passed over Hetty doing great damage. The storm was accompanied by very heavy hail and Severe thunder…

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Cyclone at Henty

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 2

A storm of a cyclonic character is reported to have passed over the town of Henty, on the southern railway line, about 50 miles from Albury, on Monday afternoon,…

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Floods in Queensland. a Man Drowned

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 1

The departure of the mail train from Rockhampton for Brisbane on Wednesday was indefinitely delayed, as water was 3 feet over the Roope's…

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A Flood Incident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 1

Miss Dorothea Msman, of Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, picked up a bottle on Tuesday in some drift wood left by the flood that occurred in the Hunter in July…

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The Floodgates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 3

The tender of A. J. Kocvers, West, Maitland, has been accepted for the construction of timber floodgates at Wallis Creek…

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Flood Telegrams. St

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 February 1905 · page 7

The Hon. J. N. B[?] in reply to repeated communications on the [?] subject referred to therein. has received the follow[?] letter from the Postal Secretary of the Commonwealth:—…

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Letter to the Editor. Telegraphic Communication During Floods

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1905 · page 2

Sir.—When reading the "reading the "Mercury" of Monday last, I noticed with pleasure that the Postmaster-General has given instructions to the officials in different towns that in…

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Telegraphic Arrangements in Flood Time

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 2

THE following communications from the Postmaster General were received by the Mayor on Thursday morning last in reply to the conjoint request…

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A Heavy Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 5

Reports to hand to-day show that the damage done as the result of last night's storm was much more severe than at first supposed. In one street in Surry llitls no…

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Wednesday, February 15, 1905. Flood Mitigation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 4

The conference of delegated representing the Hunter Valley at Maitland and down below to Raymond Terrace, did well if only by the circumstance of its sitting. Flood mitigation…

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Hunter Flood Mitigation Conference at Morpeth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 3

Recently a public meeting was held at Morpeth, when the question of flood mitigretion in the Hunter was revived, the outcolth of which was the holding of a…

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Heavy Rain in Sydney. Tram Traffic Interfered With

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 February 1905 · page 2

A terrific thunderstorm burst over Sydney and suburbs on Tuesday evening, accompanied by torrents of rain. Streets were delayed and low-lying lands foodrd…

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Hunter Flood Mitigation. Conference at Morpeth

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 6

Recently a public meeting was hold at Morpeth, when the question of flood mitigation in the Hunter was revived, the outcome of which was the holding of a…

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The Weather. Rains on the Tableland and Coast. Thunderstorms Expected

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 4

"Further rain, was reported on Thursday from nearly all the stations on the tablelands and eastern slopes. A few places on the western slopes par…

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The Fire Flood

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 4

A fire strarted about 1 o'clock on Thursday on the road Glennie's Creck to Goorangoola, and before it was extinguished considerable damage resulted..Mrs Widders,…

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