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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1904

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Phenomenal Storm. Great Damage at T. H. Mate and Co.'s

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 February 1904 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon, about 3 p.m., a thunderstorm, accompanied by very heavy rain passed over Albury, and in a very short space of time all the…

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Floods on the Hunter. Enormous Damage

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 3

The Hunter River is in flood, having risen 27½ feet in 24 hours. All the low lands in the vicinity of West Maitland and Morpeth are…

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Telegrams. Inter-state. Sydney, Wednesday. New South Wales. Floods at Gunnedah

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 3

At Gunnedah exceedingly heavy rain has fallen. The rivers have risen, and culverts had been washed away. In the Maitland district many farms on…

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The Albury Rain Storm. a Phenomenal Downpour. An Inch in Ten Minutes

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 4

Nothing like the great rain storm reported in yesterday's issue of the Daily News, has ever been experienced in the town of Albury. From start to finish…

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Flood in the Hunter River

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 35

The Hunter River at Maitland on Tuesday rose about 39ft. above the ordinary level, and flooded a large extent of country. Some of the farmers will suffer heavy losses, which…

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Floods on the Hunter

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 3

An extremely large area of country has been submerged in the Hunter districts, and much damage to farms has been done…

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Telegrams. Inter-state. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. the Floods

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 3

The floods in the Maitland district have caused damage to the amount of several thousand pounds. The waters have now subsided…

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Floods in New Zealand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 29

Heavy rain has caused serious floods in the South Island (N Z), where the railway traffic has been interrupted. At Balolutha the Cluthe River rose 11½ft., flooding many…

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Floods in New Zealand

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 March 1904 · page 3

Cablegrams have been received here announcing that phenomenally heavy pains have fallen in many districts in New Zealand, which have been the…

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Great Cyclone at Reunion. Intense Distress Among the Sufferers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 2

A cyclone has devi[?]ired the Island of Rounton, near Maurillus. Thousands of persons are foodless and without shelter…

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The Cyclone at Reunion

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 31 March 1904 · page 2

The ber[?]ue Earl's Court, which sailed from Wallaroo for Falmouth on January 22, was caught in a cyclone which devastated the island of…

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A Disastrous Cyclone. Reunion Devastated. London, March 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 April 1904 · page 27

The French island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, 600 miles east of Madagascar, with a population of 210,000, has been devastated by a cyclone. Thousands of the…

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Great Floods in Ohio

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 2

The damage done by floods in Western and Northern Ohio exceeds two million dollars. Twenty towns have been deprived of…

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A Remarkable Snow Storm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 April 1904 · page 9

A train was recently buried 30ft. deep deep in show daring a remarkable storm a few milos from Allenc, in the department of Lozere, France. The passengers…

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Floods in Ohio. Enormous Damage. London, April 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 April 1904 · page 26

Floods a which have occurred in the north western and northern portions of the state of Ohio have caused enormous damage, the loss ro far being estimated to exceed…

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Telegrams. Inter-state. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Heavy Rain Falling

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 April 1904 · page 3

Heavy rain h[?] been falling all day, and high seas are raging along the coast…

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Floods on the Hawkesbury. an Absent Solicitor

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 3

The flood water at the Haskesbury River, which have already risen about is feet, are still rising. At the Nepean the waters also are rising rapidly The Bench has issued a warrant against Whits, a solicitor, who falled to attend the Equally Court this morning to give evidence, although he had been instructed…

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Heavy Rain and Waterspouts. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 2

Heavy continuous rain has been failing since last night Rough seas on the coast is causing delay to shipping. Several waterspouts have been sighted…

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Floods in New Zealand

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 3

A telegram from New Zealand advises that heavy floods have occured at Wanganni and in the surrounding districts. Owing to the extremely…

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Racing in England. Derby Won by St. Amant. Race Run in a Thunderstorm. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 3 June 1904 · page 2

The Derby was run at Epsom this afternoon, and resulted as follows:—leopold de Rothschild's ch[?] St. Amant, by St. FRusquin—Lady…

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