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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1910

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Terrific Storms

Nambucca News · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 3

Tuesday, which was an exceptionally windy day in this district, was mild in its treatment of the Nambucca to other places. In Sydney torrential…

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News by Wire. Sidney, Wednesday night. the Recent Storm

Macleay Argus · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 11

The cyclonic conditions in parts of New South Wales have terminated and fine weather prevails to-day. Train communication with the west…

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The Hawkesbury Floods

Macleay Argus · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 11

The floods on the Hawkesbury River are subsiding and all danger is ended. The heaviest losers are the growers of vegetables for the…

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Devastating Flood. London

Nambucca News · Friday 12 August 1910 · page 4

A village in the Caucasus has been overwhelmed by a wall of water, which rushed down a valley and swamped it at midnight. Five hundred houses were…

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Flood of Whisky. Ten People Injured, One Killed. Carts Caught in Deluge

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 12

The Loch Katrine Distillery, on the south side of Glasgow, was the scene of an extraordinary accident last month (as already briefly recorded in a "Herald"…

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Disastrous Floods in Japan

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 17 August 1910 · page 5

Devastating floods are reported from Japan. Many towns and villages have been washed away, and a number of deaths…

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Clybucca Flood Refuge. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 8

SIR,--A blunder has been committed respecting the Clybucca Flood Refuge. I became aware of the mistake on reading Mr. Geo. Hillard's notification of his…

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Floods in India

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 11

Reports from India state the River Indus is in heavy flood. Three-fourths of the town of Deraghazchian with a population of 30,000, is under…

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Disastrous Floods in Japan

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 5 October 1910 · page 5

In a report received by the Minister for Agriculture from the Commercial Commissioner for New South Wales in we East (Mr. J. B. Suttor), particulars…

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The Herald of the Storm. a Symbolic Poem

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 October 1910 · page 5

Over gloomy ocean stretches Winds have gathered angry storm-clouds, And between the clouds and waters Darts, like a black fork of lightning,…

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A Very Heavy Wind Storm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 October 1910 · page 4

A VERY heavy wind stores accompanied by severe lightning and a little rain, broke over this district on Tuesday last, doing a good deal of harm on the upper river. At H[?]dod and Koree Island…

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Terrific Storm. Perth, Thurday

Nambucca News · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 5

A terrific and disastrous gale has almost devastated the Broome district. At Broome sixty pearling crafts were either blown on the rocks…

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Severe Storm. Sydney

Nambucca News · Friday 2 December 1910 · page 4

During a terrific storm at Junee four inches of rain fell in two and a half hours. Enormous damage was done to the…

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Heavy Storm

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 7 December 1910 · page 4

A heavy thunderstorm passed over portion of the district on Thursday afternoon, during which there was a good fall of rain. Fortunately there…

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Terrific Storm. Sydney

Nambucca News · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 4

A terrific storm broke with exceptional violence over the township of Goondiwindi, on the Queensland border. Five inches of rain fell…

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The Volga Storm. Terrible Loss of Life

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 December 1910 · page 4

[?] from Astrakhan give details of a terrible [?] that occurred their in connection with the redent, store and [?] with [?] were driyen dows the Volga by the…

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