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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1911

38 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Heavy Rain

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 4

As a result of tropical disturbances, heavy floods have occurred in Queensland, where 17 inches of rain fell at Ayr, and the flood in the Cloocnrry district is the highest known. This welcome rain…

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Floods in Queensland. Seventeen Inches at Ayr, Railway Traffic Stopped. Burdekin Rising Rapidly

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 13

The Commissioner of Police has received advice that 17 inches of rain has fallen at Ayr. The Burdekin River is rising rapidly. Railway…

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Kempsey Police Court. Friday, January 13.—Before the P.M. Storm in a Tea-cup

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 4

Clarence Doyle was charged that on the 7th January he did behave in an offensive manner to Eveline Luthwaite by placing his arm around her waist. The case was…

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Floods in the West. Sydney

Nambucca News · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 4

Heavy rains and floods have been experienced in the far west. Many persons had narrow escapes from drowning owing to being carried…

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Destructive Rain Storm. MELBOURNE

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 7

Melbourne yesterday experienced a torrential downpour. In a few minutes almost every street in the city and suburbs was submerged, and many…

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The Melbourne Rain Storm. MELBOURNE

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 7

Great damage was occasioned by the torrential downpour of rain in the city and suburbs on Sunday. One boy was drowned. Yesterday it was…

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Flood Disasters in Queensland. BRISBANE

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 7

Further Particulars regarding the floods in Queensland show that a mail contractor named Tincknell and another man were drowned while crossing…

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Queensland Floods. Brisbane

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 7

The flood waters at Bundaberg have submerged the wharf and commenced to spread over the low-lying portions of the town…

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Heavy Floods in Victoria. MELBOURNE

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 February 1911 · page 5

Heavy floods are still being experienced throughout Victoria, and great damage is being done in all directions…

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Drowned in the Barrington. Whilst Attempting to Cross the River in Flood

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 February 1911 · page 8

On Saturday at about 11 o'clock a man named Richard Wilson, a navvy, was attempting to cross the Barrington River, which was swollen, at the…

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Farmers Flooded Out. MELBOURNE

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 22 February 1911 · page 5

Heavy floods are devasting the Cohuna country. There is now an inland sea five miles wide, and most of the farmers along the bak of the…

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The Weather. Rain and Floods

Nambucca News · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 4

Another week of soaking rain and weather followed by flooded river creeks. After a slight break [?] weather and a day or two of fine [?]…

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Flood Waters Subsiding

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 March 1911 · page 4

The heavy showers of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday caused another, fresh, the flood waters at Kempsey reaching a height of eight foot above summer level…

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Floods in the Country. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 March 1911 · page 5

Owing to floods in the Barwon no mails have been running between, Collarenebri and Walgett for over, week…

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Earthquakes and Floods. Wellington (N.z.)

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 March 1911 · page 5

A severe shock of earthquake was experlended here yesterday. Floods are reported from various parts of New Zealand, and much…

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Sad Drowning Fatility. Result of Floods

Nambucca News · Friday 3 March 1911 · page 4

On Friday last Mrs. James Swan of Clybucca, was driving along the Macksville Road near the Freshwater Reserve, having in the sulkv…

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Disastrous Cyclone. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 22 March 1911 · page 5

Further particulars are to hand of a terrific cyclone at Port Douglas and Mossman, Queensland, to the effect that hundreds of people are homeless…

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Devastating Cyclone. Two Northern Towns Suffer. People Homeless

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1911 · page 4

The Deputy - Postmaster - General Brisbane, received a message from Port Douglas stating that a terrific cyclone commenced shortly befofe 4…

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Upper Belmore River Flood Relief Canal

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 22 March 1911 · page 4

It is to be hoped that the people of Belmore and Maria Rivers are alive enough to their own interests to see that a deputation of men, who know that district and what is…

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The Cairns Cyclone. Further Particulars

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 6

The Minister for Agriculture has received a telegram from Mossman stating that farmers in that district estimate the losses due to damage to the…

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