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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1916

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Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., J. W. Birkenhead, and Elias Bowden, L.Ms.)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 November 1916 · page 7

Philip Jenkins, for whom Mr. W. J. Enright appeared, applied for the renewal of the license of the Criterion Hotel, Weston. The application was granted, the…

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Heavy Storms. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 5

Heavy storms are reported almost generally over the State…

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Heavy Rain

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 29 November 1916 · page 2

A heavy storm broke over the town and portion of the district on Saturday night last at about 9 p.m. and it rained heavily almost…

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Wounded in France. Struggle with a Hun. Zeppelin Relics. Letter From Bombardier Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 November 1916 · page 4

Bombardier W. Storm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Storm, of West Maitland, writing to his parents from the Schools Military Hospital, Colchester, Essex, under date October 8, says:—…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, November 30. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.m.) Drunkenness and Language

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 November 1916 · page 6

For being drunk in High-street at 10.45 last evening Thomas Ambrose Maher, 28, was fined 10/, in default seven days' imprisonment, and for having used indecent language…

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South India Cyclone

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 December 1916 · page 5

Reuter's Madras correspondent reports that nearly three hundred people were killed by a cyclone at Pondicherry, and great damage was caused to the city, which is without light…

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Wounded in France. Struggle with a Hun. Zeppelin Relics. Letter From Bombardier Storm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 7

Bombardier W. Storm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Storm, of West Maitland, writing to his parents from the Schools Military Hospital, Colchester, Essex, under…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, November 30. (Before Mr. G. H. Gale, P.m.)drunkenness and Language

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 5

For being drunk in High-street at 10.45 last evening Thomas Ambrose Maher, 28, was fined lO/, in default seven days imprisonment, and for having used indecent language…

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The Weather. Heavy Storms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 5

Heavy storms broke over the town and district on Saturday and Sunday nights, the rain being very heavy on both occasions, and lasting for a considerable time…

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Last Week's Storm. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 December 1916 · page 3

In the Orange and Young districts severe damage was caused by last week's storm…

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A Terrific Storm

Singleton Argus · Thursday 7 December 1916 · page 2

One of the most violent storms ever experienced; in the district burst over Vere between 2 and 3 p.m. on Monday last. The storm, which came, from the…

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Big Storm at Vere

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 December 1916 · page 4

There was a delugo of rain and hail at Vere on Monday afternoon. Over five inches of rain were recorded in about two hours, and hall was piled up to a depth of 2ft, against…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, December 14. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale. P.m.). a Railway Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 December 1916 · page 7

John Thomas Skinner, a [?] was charged with having, on August 31, travelled from Waratah to East Maitland without having previously paid his fare, and with…

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Serious Floods. Appeal for Boats. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 December 1916 · page 6

The railway traffic is suspended beyond Camurra, on the Mungindi line, owing to the rising river waters. The Walgett townspeople have telegraphed…

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Namoi in Flood. Narrabri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 December 1916 · page 5

The Namoi River is in flood, and the reading at 4 p.m. on Saturday was 24ft., which is the highest since 1916. The flood at Narrabri Creek overflowed through…

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Weird Sights. Electrical, Storm at Sea

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 December 1916 · page 3

About a week ago, while the Oceanic liner Sonoma, which arrived at Sydney yesterday, was steaming towards Sydney, and in the region of Fiji, she encountered a terrific…

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Deluge of Rain. Railway at Stanf0rd-merthyr Damaged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 December 1916 · page 7

The thunderstorms experienced last yesterday afternoon was particularly heavy at Stanford-Morthyr, where a perfect deluge of rain was experienced accompanied…

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The Weather. Another Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 December 1916 · page 7

Another heavy storm broke over the district about six o'clock last evening, when very heavy rain fell for a short time, accompanied by a slight fall of hail in some…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, December 21. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.m.) Prohibition Order

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 December 1916 · page 7

A prohibition order for 12 months was issued against John M'inerney. FOUND ON LICENSED PREMISES. For being found on the licensed premises…

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Floods in Tasmania. Widespread Damage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1916 · page 2

The heavy and almost continuous record rainfall throughout Tasmania during the last few weeks reached its climax in a terrific storm on Thursday. It was one the like of which had not…

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