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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1907

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Gale on the Coast

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 3

One of the strongest gales experienced for years raged along the coast on Sunday. The highest velocity recorded at Sydney was 73½ miles. A…

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Thursday's Storm

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 5

The storm on Thursday, last week, was very severe in the vicinity of Dyer's Crossing, Wallamba. The wind blew with hurricane force, carrying…

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Storm in a Teacup. the French Telegraph Boy

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 9

The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" narrates the follow-long tory:— Go[?], aged nineteen, a telegraph…

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Terriffic Storm on the Wallamba. Buildings Blown Down. Calves, Pigs and Fowls Killed

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 5

Last Thursday a terrific thunderstorm passed over a portion of the Wallamba doing immense damage to crops, houses, stock, etc. The damage…

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Terrific Storm on the Wallamba

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 6

LAST Thursday a terrific storm passed over a portion of the Wallamba doing immense was confines to a houses, stock,&c. The damage was confined to a small area between Fire Fly Creek and Koribakh…

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Cyclone at Cooktown. the Whole Town Damaged

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 5

THE most disastrous calamity that has ever befallen Cooktown was experienced during Friday hight and Saturday. On Tuesday and Wednesday the heat was abnormal, registering 102 degrees in the shade…

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A Novel Storm

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 21 February 1907 · page 4

ON Friday last Mr. Ben Carlill, of Wooroowoolgen, had a most peculiar experience (says the Casino Express). He was quietly jogging along the…

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Terrific Storm at Sutton Forest

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 3

An eyewitness of the destructive hailstorm at Sutton Forest on Saturday afternoon sends the following account:—…

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Cyclone Sweeps Bodangora Churches Levelled to the Ground. Many Buildings Unroofed. Trees Blown 100 YARDS

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 3

A terrific storm of cyclone violence struck the town of Bodangora at 8 o'clock on Tuesday night, doing considerable damage. Scarcely a place…

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Heavy Rain at Maitland

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 3

Heavy rain fell throughout Saturday night, 167 points being registered up to 9 o'clock Monday morning. The downfall was reported to have been…

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Steamers Pyrmont and Wauchope In the Gale. a Trying Experience

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 27 March 1907 · page 4

As an instance of what life on a coasting vessel sometimes involves when the elements are unkind, the experiences of a couple of the North Court steamers during the gale which raged a few days ago are…

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Richmond River in Flood. Coraki Wharves Submerged. Thirty Inches of Rain in Three Months

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 5

The Richmond River is in flood, and the water is over all the wharves and jetties, and covers the lower part of the terrace, but will have to rise another…

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Artillery Versus Hail Storms

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 8

While the farmers in America are using cannon to disperse cyclones, those of Italy are employing the some means against hailstorms,…

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Cyclone in Victoria. Extensive Damage at Bairnsdale. Buildings Unroofed. Man Blown Fifty Yards

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 5

The eastern end of the town of Bairnsdale was struck by a cyclone on Saturday afternoon, and business places and private residences were…

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The Australian Agricultural Company. (Continued.) Xix the Storm in a Teacup. Part 1

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 2

There can be little doubt that Barton had made enemies—perhaps among others, Dawson—who had reported unfavourable of him in London; and it…

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Will There be Another Deluge

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 8

Many geologists declare that another deluge is within the bounds of possibility, and that it may take place at any moment (says N. Tournsur in the…

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Will There be Another Deluge

Macleay Argus · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 9

MANY geologists declare that another deluge is within the bounds of possibility, and that it may take place at any moment (says N. Tourneur in the Family…

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Balloons in a Thunderstorm

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 3

Ten balloons competed for the Harbord Cup, the mute being from London to Goring. The balloons traversed a…

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A Cyclone. Church Blown Down

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

The thunderstorm which broke over wingham last "Wednesday afternoon developed a whirlwind which blew with terrific force all down the river…

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Cyclone on the Manning. Free Presbyterian Church at Taree Demolished

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

A STORM of cyclonic fury burst over this district about 4 p.m. on Wednesday last, and wrought considerable damage while it lasted, which fortunately was only for about twenty minutes. The storm,…

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