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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1902

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Cyclone at Hungerford. Several Buildings Damaged

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 3 December 1902 · page 3

A TERRIFIC cyclone passed over Hungerford, near Bourke, on Thursday evening last, causing great damage. Maslin's Commercial Hotel, verandah, and outbuildings…

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A Terrific Storm. Hurricane on the Lower Manning

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 6

About 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon an exceptionally heavy storm, accompanied with torrents of rain, passed over this district-- the wind blowing with such velocity…

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An Extraordinary Storm

Macleay Argus · Saturday 20 December 1902 · page 9

The Raleigh Sun in its last issue gives particulars of an extraordinary storm which passed over Bellingen on Monday week. What is described as…

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Glddons' Floods

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 20 December 1902 · page 4

Mr. J. Harecourt Giddons, of Liverpool near Sydney, who describes himself as a meteorologist, claims to be able to forecast the weather for twelve…

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Destructive Storm at Marlee Crops Levelled and Trees Blown Down. December 20

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 24 December 1902 · page 4

ONE of the hetvlest wind storms know to the residents of Merles parsed over our neighbourhood on Thursday evening. Its width of destruction was about half-a-mile…

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