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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1893

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Floods on the Clarence

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 2

GRAFTON, Friday. -- The council has decided, with reference to the £500 granted by the Colonial Treasurer for the purpose of cleansing the town, and repairing the damage done by the flood to get…

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An Incident of the Floods. Twenty-three Hours in a Tree

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 4

CAPTAIN VERNOR, of Cluen, Upper Brisbane River, whose home is just opposite the station called Vernor's, on the Esk Valley Railway, about 20 miles from Ipswich, has…

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Latest Special Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday Evening. Flood at Bowral

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 March 1893 · page 5

ON Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. nearly 10 inches of rain fell at Bowral, causing a severe flood, which put out the fires at the gas works, consequently…

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The Traveller. Fresh Floods in China

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 March 1893 · page 6

Floating down the Peiho river, in the stillness of midnight in the country, we were roused from sleep by the roar of water as of rapids perilously near at hand. Now…

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Great Flood in the Hunter. [By Telegraph.] Muswellbrook

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 5

AN unprecedented rainfall has occurred here, and the Hunter River overflowed its banks at Muswellbrook for the first time since 1874, at 2 o'clock…

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Nerve Storms

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 7

Megrim is a functional disorder, like other nervous complaints, and depends generally upon some form ef irritation. It is best regarded as a 'nerve storm,' and all…

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The Great Flood in the Hunter. [By Telegraph.] Muswellbrook, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 5

At Singleton 985 points of rain fell between 9 a.m. on Wednesday and 9 a.m. on Thursday. The River was a banker at day…

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Baker's Creek in Flood

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 5

At break of day yesterday morning (remarks Saturday's Guardian), the sight down the Falls was one to be remembered; a raging, seething, roaring mass of water,…

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Latest Special Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday Night. Floods in the Hunter

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 5

The flood in the Hunter River is receding. It was the most destructive ever known in the district. TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES…

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Heavy Flood at Armidale

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 4

Early on Friday morning last the highest flood on record occurred in the Armidale Creek, which naturally caused considerable damage to property in the immediate…

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Heavy Floods on the Hunter

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 5

THE gravest apprehensions are felt as to the cause of the total interruption of rail and telegraph communication with Sydney and the South generally. It is known that serious…

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The Great Hunter Floods. a Night in the Bend

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 4

We suppose many of our Haitian d readei's have passed a night in that historic spot known as the Horseshoe Bend in flood time and in dry time, but we are authorised to…

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The Great Floods in the Hunter. (Compiled From Journals to Hand.) West Maitland, March 9

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 7

Another disastrous flood has suddenly come down, upon the residents o£ Maitland and the Hunter River districts, bringing widespread ruin and…

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Latest Special Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday Evening. the Hunter Flood

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 5

It is estimated that the damage done by the floods in Maitland will amount to nearly £1,000,000. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION…

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Previous Hunter Floods

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 4

The first great floods in the Hunter of which there is any record are those of 1819 and 1820. There are not many people alive who remember these occurrences. But 20…

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New South Wales Flood Relief Fund

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 5

A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Town Hall last night to take steps to raise funds for the relief of the Hunter and Clarence Rivers flood sufferers…

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The Floods

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 2

WE publish elsewhere in this issue a tolerably detailed account of the floods on the Hunter river, but seeing the important bearing these unparalleled disasters will have on…

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The Floods in the Hunter

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 3

DETAILS of the terrible calamity that has befallen the Hunter River people are not easy to obtain, but such as are procurable are of melancholy interest, and will serve to guide…

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Studying Storms

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1893 · page 7

In the year 1821 a severe storm prevailed along the eastern coast, which for many years was known as the 'great September gale.' It held that title until September,…

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God's Wrath and the Floods

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1893 · page 4

BISHOP NEVILL, of Dunedin, fancies he discerns the finger of God in the Queensland floods. " Some might ask why such things should be permitted. It might be to check…

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