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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1919

219 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 11

Terrific Cyclone in India

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 October 1919 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent at Calcutta, telegraphing on Saturday, reports that an intense cyclone in Eastern Bengal has caused indescribabale havoc. The jute…

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Police Court. Tuesday, October 7, 1919 Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. Alleged Sly Grog Selling

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 October 1919 · page 2

Frederick William Frost (on remand) was charged with selling colonial wine without being the holder of a license at…

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Floods in Spain

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 12

Reuter's Madrid correspondent, under date October 1, reports that continuous rainstorms have caused serious floods, especially in provinces of Valencia and Marcia, where…

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Gale at Cessnock. Buildings Damaged. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 5

A westerly gale, at times of harricane force, prevailed here all day Several buildings suffered damage and business, was considerably interfered with by dust…

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Gale at Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 October 1919 · page 4

Yesterday was a wild day at Cessnock, and old hands said it was the worst they had ever experienced. A westerly gale, which at times reached hurricane force…

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Cessnock District News. Tuesday's Gale. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 4

The gale at Cessnock on Tuesday blew down a couple of verand[?] of residences on the hill above the town, and it also did damage to others, guttering and iron being…

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Storm at Branxton. Branxton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 5

[?]urricane rain fell to-day, 140 points falling in half an hour…

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Gale at Cessnock. Bulidings Damaged. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 6

A westerly Rale, at times of hurricane force. prevailed here all day. Several buildings suffered damage, and business was considerably interfered with by dust…

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Hail and Rain. Furious Storm in Sydney. Great Damage Done. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 5

Shortly after midnight a violent hail and rainstorm swept over Sydney, doing considerable damage. The storm was accompanied by vivid lighting and heavy peals of…

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Heavy Rain and Hailstorm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 October 1919 · page 4

Further particulars regarding the heavy rain and hallstorm reported from Mindaribba on Saturday show that it was particularly violent at Tressingfield and…

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Terrific Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 October 1919 · page 5

A terrific rain and hall storm (writes our Cessnock correspondent) is reported to have passed over Rothbury and Branxton on Saturday. The hail was the heaviest that has ever…

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Rain and Hail. Phenomenal Storm

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1919 · page 2

Shortly after noon on Saturday, the violent claps of thunder portended that a rainstorm of an ununsual perhaps violent, character was not…

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Furious Storm in Sydney. Great Damage Done. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1919 · page 2

Shortly after midnight a violent hall and rainstorm swept over Sydney, doing considerable damage. The storm was accompanied by vivid…

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Extraordinary Hail Storm a Sydney Experience. Much Damage Done

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 October 1919 · page 4

About half-an-hour after midnight on Friday a hailstorm of unusual soverity burst over Sydney, doing great damage during its short duration. It was…

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Extraordinary Hail Storm

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 29 October 1919 · page 2

About half-an-hour after midnight an Friday a hailstorm of unusual severity hurst over Sydney, doing great damage during its short…

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A Greater Maitland. Flood Mitigation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 October 1919 · page 7

A meeting of the committee of the Greater Maitland movement was held in the Mayor's room, Town Hall, last evening, when the principal business dealt with was the…

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Hail and Rain. Furious Storm in Sydney. Great Damage Done. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 November 1919 · page 11

Shortly after midnight a violent hail and rainstorm swept over Sydney, doing considerable damage. The storm was accompanied by vivid lightning and heavy peals of…

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Gales on English Coast. Several Shipwrecks. London, November 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 November 1919 · page 4

The gales which are preventing the aviators' start on the flight to Australia are strewing the British shores with wrecks, especially on the Southern Coast,…

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Gales on English Coast. Several Shipwrecks. London. November 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 3

The galer which are preventing the aviators' start on the flight to Australia are strewing the British shores with wrecks especially on the Southern Coast,…

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A Missing Zeppelin Disappeared in Storm

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 6

London, Thursday.—A German airship, with a crew and passengers numbering 30, failed to make a landing during a storm near Berlin…

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