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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1905

42 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 3

Heavy Rain

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 4

AS Port Douglas, Queensland nearly 15 inches of rain fell during 2½ hours…

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Telegraphic. (Through Our Metropolitan Agents.] Heavy Rain. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1905 · page 5

FURTHER heavy rains have fallen in the northern parts of the State. Three and a half inches recorded at Tweed Heads yesterday…

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Queensland Floods. BRISBANE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1905 · page 5

THE floods to Queensland are eubrid log. One man was drowned…

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Floods in Queensland

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 4

Farther heavy floods are reported from Queensland. All the upper wharves at Rockhampton were submerged, and the railway lines were…

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Heavy Rain. Brisbane

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1905 · page 5

AT Rosedale(Q), last week, 43 inches of rain fell in five days. The farmers have suffered great loss from floods…

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A Summer Storm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 7

MRS Jack WESTCOTT ran up the little garden-path, and rushed into the house in a very school-girlish manner. 'Jack, dear !' she exclaimed, before she was fairly…

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Flood in the City. Sydney Monday, 12.45 P.m. Houses Immersed

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 2

A storm of exceptional severity, passed over the city early yesterday morning. Considerable damage was caused, and ninny houses in the low [?] places were under…

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Flood on the Clarence

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1905 · page 5

A TELEGRAM from Grafton yesterday states that there had been very heavy rain, and there was no sign of it breaking off. On Wednesday the Orara was 13ft over Coutt's…

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The Herald of the Storm. a Symbolic Poem

The Inverell Times · Thursday 20 April 1905 · page 3

(From the Russian of Maxim Gorky.) Over gloomy ocean stretches Winds have gathered angry storm-clouds And between the clouds and waters…

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The Herald of the Storm. a Symbolic Poem

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

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

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Heavy Rain

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 3 May 1905 · page 5

Heavy rain (with every prospect of continuance) was falling when we went to press…

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A Disastrous Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 4

Three schooners were lost during a storm in the Paunopo group. Harris, a super-cargo on one of the vessels, was dashed on the rocks and killed…

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Short Story The Flooded Gallery

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 4

Away up in Trumgelly, in Wales, they tell the story to this day, and the memory of it moistens the eyes of many a touch, gray-bearded miner. It was a hot July…

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Floods in Tasmania. HOBART

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1905 · page 5

IT has been raining heavily for the past five days in Tasmania, which is experiencing the heaviest floods known on the island for 20 years. Miles of country are under…

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Floods in Tasmania. Fatalities and Damage to Property

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

The floods in Tasmania continue. Two fatalities have occurred. Large losses of stock and great damage to railways is reported…

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Poetry. HEART-STORMS

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 2

THE shadow of night is falling, Bat the shore is sunlit yet: Oh tranquil tide, what a flood you bear Of bitter and wild regret!…

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Floods in New Zealand

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 June 1905 · page 4

As the result of floods the streets of Greymouth, New Zealand, resemble river beds, being covered with shingles and torn into gaping holes…

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The Time of Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 12 July 1905 · page 8

The son was just sliding below the low hills, westward. Above the red menace of his upper are violet and crimson stains patched the sky;…

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The Tumut in Flood

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 12 July 1905 · page 4

A sensational flood occurred in the Tumut River yesterday. Two hundred and thirty-four points of rain fell, and the river registered 13½ feet, the…

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Floods in Victoria. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 2

FURTHER accounts of the disastrous floods in the north-eastern portions of Victoria ehow that a man and woman were drowned whilst crossing the…

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