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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1916

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The War. on Western Front. Hard and Bitter Struggle Continues. Pozieres Still the Storm Centre. London

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 2

Australian wounded officers from Pozieres agree that tlio Anzacs did what they liked in the week end advances, losing slightly…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, August 10. (Before Messrs. C. H. Gale. P.M., and J. M. Dawson, J.p.). Committed for Trial

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 5

Teresa Maud Coopet was charged with having at West maitland, on July 29, shot at Alfred John Cooper, with intent to murder him; Mr. J. R. Carlton, on behalf of Mr…

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Destructive Cyclone. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 August 1916 · page 5

A Kingston correspondent states that a cyclone swept over Southern jamaica It is believed the northern portion escaped. The bananas principally suffered,…

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Flood in the Clyde. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 August 1916 · page 3

The Forth and Clyde Canal burst at Clydebank and great volumes of water poured in the town, flooding the streets to a depth of three feet, including the Dumbarton…

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Heavy Rain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 August 1916 · page 5

Heavy rain is generating the slopes and tablelaids, and in the south-west…

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Russian Inactivity. Precedes Another Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1916 · page 5

The absence of activity in Galicia is probably due to the Russians bringing up heavy transport preparatory to renewing the attack…

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Russian Inactivity. Precedes Another Storm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 August 1916 · page 7

The absence of activity in Galicia is probably due to the Russians bringing up heavy transport preparatory to renewing the attack…

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Flood in the Clyde. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 August 1916 · page 13

The Forth and Clyde Canat burst at Clydebank, and great volumes of water poured in the town, flooding the streets to a depth of three feet, including the Dumbarton…

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Flood Threatened at Tamworth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 4

Very heavy rain commenced to fall in Tamworth yesterday morning and continued throughout the day (says to-day's "Tamworth Observer,") It continued to come…

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Flood at Orange. Much Damage Done

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 6

A disastrous flood occurred at Orange yesterday morning much damage being on used along Lord's-place. The area consists of business places, newspaper offices, and…

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Macquarie in Flood. Serious Damage

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 2

Unusually heavy rain fell throughout the Bathurst district on Sunday night, the average registration being about two inches. The Macquarie…

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Floods in the Country. Orange Suffers. Business Premises Flooded

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 2

Rain fell in torrents at Orange on Sunday night and heavily on Monday, low-lying lands throughout the district being inundated. Two creeks passing…

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Raymond Terrace Police Court. FRIDAY, 25th AUGUST, (Before Mr. Gale, P.M.)

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 2

Sly drug Selling.—James Callaghan, storekeeper, of Karuah was charged with selling liquor without a license. Defendant for whom Mr, Braye appeared, pleaded…

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War in a Storm. Prussians Surrender

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 5

London Thursday.-Mr Philip Gibbs, in a message to the "Daily Chronicle," gives a vivid description of a storm seen from a vanrage point overlooking…

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Flood at Orange. Much Damage Done

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 3

A disastrous flood occurred at Orange on Monday morning, much damaged being caused along Lord's-place The area consists of business places newspaper offices, and…

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Private Storm Wounded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

Last evening Mr. E. Storm, watchmaker and jeweller, of High-street, received a telegram from the Base Records Office in Melbourne, informing him that his son, Private…

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Escaped Kite Balloon. on Fire in a Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 September 1916 · page 6

"You know," said the young lieutenant as he sat on the edge of his cot in a London hospital yesterday afternoon, "I don't mind telling you about this thing a you won't…

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The Deluge of Steel. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 September 1916 · page 5

French correspondent at the British front speak of the "swelling sea of reserves" which, owing to the Allies air mastery do not move about secretly and bint that the…

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The Deluge of Steel. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 September 1916 · page 2

French correspondents at the British from speak of the "swelling sea of reserves" which, owing to the Allies air mastery do not move about secretly and hint that the…

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Heavy Rain. Official Reports. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 September 1916 · page 5

An official communique says:— Bad weather interfered with operations on the Somme. We made progress east of Berny…

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