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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1906

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Heavy Storm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 4

A STORM of exceptional severity was experienced out Glencoe way on Friday, the rain falling in regular torrents for about an hour and a half, and wreaking no small amount of damage On Mr. W…

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The Effect of a Storm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1906 · page 4

A REMARKABLE example of the effect of the weather upon the milk yield of cows occurred at G[?]miston Factory during the period of the big storm. The factory and creamery are now…

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Moon's Age and Thunderstorms

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 4

Many meteorologists and astronomers have drawn attention from time to time to a connection between the occurrence of thunderstorms and the age of the…

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Cyclone at Yallaroi

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2

A storm which passed over Yallaroi on the evening of the 21st inst. resulted in great destruction of property in its course. At Yallaroi homestead…

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A Cyclone Story

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 3

A settlor in. the Western States of America, tells how his 4 house, his wife and his live stock were all blown, away by the violence of a…

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A Disastrous Cyclone. DAMAGE, £100,000

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 6

A townsville telegram states that the total damage done at Geraldton by the cyclone is variously estimated at £100.000 to £150,000. It is difficult…

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Queensland Weather. Rains, Floods and Wash Aways. Rockhampton

The Inverell Times · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 7

Further heavy rains are reported from the Central districts, and especially over the Fitzroy watershed. The river at Yaamba rose 27ft. 8in. and then…

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A Destructive Storm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 5

IT would tax the recollection of the oldest living inhabitant of Armidale to remember a thunderstorm of each tropical violence as that which visited…

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The Queensland Floods

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 4

THE reports of Stock Inspectors in all the leading districts show that the country is in splendid condition owing to the recent bountiful rains. Stock generally are in…

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The Floods and Rabbits

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 2

Nature in one act seems to have done more towards rabbit extinction than man aided by science has accomplished for years. Our Charleville…

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Terrific Storm at Armidale. Considerable Damage

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 4

It is said that records are only made to be broken. The force of this assertion was fully borne out by the unprecedented severity of the storm…

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Great Storm at Armidale

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 4

THE heaviest storm ever known at Armidale happened last Sunday evening. Within a space of about 70 minutes the rainfall totalled 220 points. So great…

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Local and General News. A Violent Storm

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 2

A HEAVY storm, accompanied by rain, wind, and lightning, visited the Armidale district on Sunday evening last, doing considerable damage. 218 points of rain tell within the space…

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A Great Flood

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 4

A copy of an official records of Australian droughts and floods covering the years 1788 to 1878 was published in a…

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news and notes. Heavy Rain

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 1

NEARLY 2in. IN fifty minutes, CREEK a banker. DREDGING revived…

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Cyclone at Croydon. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 2

An appalling cyclone took place at Croydon, Q., to-day, and practically all the Churches were demolished, as well as most of the public houses, and a large…

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Out of the Storm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 7

Sandy Thompson had a wife whose tongue was quite equal to the task of 'deaving a miller.' One very wet, windy night as the minister was passing the farmer's house he…

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Queensland Floods. Brisbane

The Inverell Times · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 6

A telegram received from Tha[?]gomindah to-day reports that from 4 to 6 inches of rain fell last week it Norley, Tobe[?]morey, Mount Margaret…

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Queensland Floods

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 3

The river at Jundah is in very high flood. Tea, sugar, and tobacco are all done, and men are smoking the bark of the gidyea tree. The stock of flour is…

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A Flood Experience.—Plucky Swimming. BRISBANE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

IN reference to the heavy floods at Windorah, in Western Queensland, a telegram has been received reporting that a boat, while returning from…

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