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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1893

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Floods in Illavarra. Extraordinary Weather

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 9 March 1893 · page 2

The very exceptional weather of the last few days began to tell yesterday, damage being reported from various parts of the district. Everywhere the effect of the…

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Another Great Flood. the Hunter River District. the Most Disastrous Ever Known. Six Persons Drowned

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 2

Intelligence from Maitland on Thursday says:—One of the most terrible and disastrous floods, accompanied by storms of wind and rain, that has visited us for years…

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The Hunter River Flood

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 2

The present year will become historical as having brought with it the most disastrous floods that have ever afflicted portions of Queensland and of this colony,…

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The Queensland Floods Relief Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 2

To-day in the day fixed by the executive committee to close the list in connection with the above fund, and it would be as wall if all lists and all subscriptions were…

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The Hunter River Floods

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 2

The flood in the Hunter River districts last week was by far the highest and most destructive ever experienced there. The inhabitants of Maitland had a most…

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Floods Belief Concert

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 2

The Floods Relief Concert bids fair from a musical standpoint to be an unqualified success. The members of the Philharmonic Society, and the other ladies aud gentlemen…

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The Queensland Floods Relief Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 2

The final amounts donated to the above fund have been received, and the amounts are hereby duly acknowledged. The total sum collected in Wollongong and is…

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New South Wales Floods Relief Fond

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 2

The Mayor (Mr. J. A. Beatson) has opened a subscription list to aid the sufferers by the floods in the Hunter and Clarence districts. Several donations have…

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Floods Relief Fund

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 2

A meeting of the committee inaugurated some fed weeks ago to raise money in this district to alleviate the sufferings of the distressed inhabitants of the flooded, dies…

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The Queensland Floods Relief Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 2

The following are the names of the contributors to the above fund, the several amounts making the total of £8 Os 3d appearing in our last issue as a second…

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The Late Floods

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 2

The following letter appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald:— Sir,—For a month or more lately I have enjoyed all my leisure time in writing…

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Queensland Flood Belief Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 2

In this issue will be found the balance-sheet showing the subscriptions received in aid of the above fund. The total amount received pays the highest tribute of praise…

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New South Wales Floods Relief Fond

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 2

At last Council meeting the subject of taking measures to assist our fellow-colonials was introduced by the Mayor, and it was unanimously resolved that he be…

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Flood Wreckers

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 23 March 1893 · page 4

A wrack or a flood is a harvest time for that class of people whose ideas of meum and tuum are of a very elastic nature. The Freeman's Journal tells…

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New South Wales Floods. Meeting at Wollongong

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 2

A meeting was held in the Council Chamber, Wollongong, on Thursday night, for the purpose of initiating a movement to relieve the distress existing in the northern…

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New South Wales Floods Relief Fond

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 28 March 1893 · page 2

The fund for the relief of the sufferers by the floods on the Hunter, Clarence, and Richmond Rivers is assuming definite shape. About fifty subscription lists have…

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New South Wales Floods Relief Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 3

Subscriptions both in cash and kind are daily received in connection with the above fund Since our Just issue the following amounts have been placed to credit :—…

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Floods Concert at Bulli

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 2

An entertainment was given in the Odd Fellows' Hall, Bulli, on Wednesday night, by the Bulli find Woonona Philharmonic Society, the proceeds of which…

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New South Wales Floods Relief Fond

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 4 April 1893 · page 2

Contributions in aid of the above fund come in slowly, but it is to be hoped that before the time elapses for the return of the subscription lists issued that a fair…

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New South Wales Floods Belief Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1893 · page 2

The following contributions towards the above fund have been received. We are desired to remind those who desire to subscribe that subscriptions close on the 20th,…

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