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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923

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Houses Wrecked. Storm on the Clarence. Cattle Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 December 1923 · page 4

The Coaldale district on the Clarence River, was visited by a violent storm on Thursday. On a strip three miles wide not one homestead escaped…

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The Yellow Flag. Steamer Eastern Quarantined. Smallpox Outbreak

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 December 1923 · page 2

The steamer Taiyuan, of the Australian Oriental Line, arrived in Sydney on Sunday from Hougkong, flying the yellow flag…

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Violent Gales. Black Sea Swept. American Steamer Founder. London, Dec. 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 December 1923 · page 5

Reuter's Constantinople correspondent reports, that vicient gales greatly damaged shipping in Turkish waters, particularly in the Black…

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