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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1907

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Heavy Thunderstorms. Struck by Lightning

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 2

THE weather locally during the past few days has been sultry and oppressive. On New Year's Day, the maximum reading at the Post Office was 90 degrees in the…

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Latest Telegraphic News. Through Greville's Telegram Coynvam. Sydney, Monday, 12.57 A.M. Disastrous Gale

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 3

ONE of the strongest gales experienced for years raged yesterday along the coast. The velocity recorded in Sydney was 73½ miles. A number of steamers and sailing vessels…

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Floods

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 5

Heavy rains have fallen at Cooma, resulting in flood A Stock have been drowned and fences washed away A man named Butler was nearly drowned…

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Floods in the Riverina

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 4

Heavy rams are reported from Coomn, resulting in floods. Stock have been drowned and fcnces washed away. A man named Butler was…

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Phenomenal Storm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

A CABLE from Auckland (N.Z.) on Tuesday says that while the southern part of the colony is shrivelling and sweltering in the heat, and the cattle…

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Cyclonic Storm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

A severe storm struck Wilcannia on Saturday afternoon, and wrecked several buildings and did other damage…

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Cyclone at Wilcannia. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 5

A SEVERE cyclone struck Wilcannia on Saturday afternoon, and wrecked several buildings. Other damage of a more or lets serious description was also done by…

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Telegrams Terrific Cyclone. Cooktown Practically Disstroyed, Sydney

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

NEWSwas rcceived in Brisbane yesterday of a serious cyclone at Cooktowrii in North Queensland. The Acting Deputy— Postmaster General received a telegram from…

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Telegraphic. [Through Our Metropolitan Agents.] Wrecked by a Storm. BRISBANE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 5

THE greater part of the town of Cooktown, in Northern Queensland, has been wrecked by a violent storm. Several serious accidents occurred, but no lives were lost…

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The Cooktown Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 4

The wreckage wrought by the hurricane at Cook town was terrible. Not a house, shop, or hotel escaped. The shrieks and groans of women and…

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Caught in the Flood

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 3

An unpleasant experience befel the Venerable Archdeacon Trotter early last week. He set out with the intention…

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Pastoral & Commercial. [For the latest Stock. gales and Produce Market prices, see our telegraphic columns.]

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 4

SYDNEY WOOL SALES.—While practically unchanged from the previous day, the market at Wednesday's auctions was hardly equal to the best of the previous week, and…

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Cooktown Cyclone

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 4

Later particulars of the Cooktown cyclone show that the devastating effects of the dis[?]ter were even greater than at first thought. The Government ketch Pilot was completely…

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The Cooktown Cyclone. COOKTOWN

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 8

THE steamer Seymonr has just returned from the search after the boats missing since the cyclone, especially the Government ketch Pilot, about whose safety the gravest…

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Cyclone at Gunnedah

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 4

A violent cyclone occurred at Gunnedah yesterday afternoon, accompanied by hail and heavy rain, considerable damage being done…

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The Cooktown Cyclone

The Inverell Times · Friday 8 February 1907 · page 7

It is reported that during the recent cyclone at Cooktown, the Low Waddy Islands were swept by waves which washed over the highest trees. The…

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Storm In Sydney

The Inverell Times · Friday 8 February 1907 · page 7

A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain, passed over the city last night…

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The Cooktown Cyclone

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 February 1907 · page 4

It is reported that during the recent cyclone at Cooktown, Low Waddy Islands were swept over by waves, which washed over the highest…

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Terrific Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 February 1907 · page 4

At Wollongong Show yesterday, tents, stalls, booths, and the rest of the temporary structures were razed to the ground by a storm. Most of…

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Torrential Thunderstorm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 February 1907 · page 4

A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain, passed over the city last night…

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