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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1908

97 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 5

Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, November 7. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 November 1908 · page 3

Three first offenders charged with drunkenness, were each fined, 5s, in default six hours' imprisonment. Thomas Prinniville, 45, labourer, were fined 20s…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, November 9. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1908 · page 7

Two first offenders for drunkenness were each lined 5s, or six hours' detention. William Hydes, for being drunk in Wolfe-street, was filed 10s, or, 48 hours,…

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Charlestown Police Court. Tuesday, November 10. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 November 1908 · page 6

William Askew, for being drunk at Dudley, was fined to and 6s costs. Thomas Henderson, for being drunk and disorderly at Dudley, was fined 10s with 6s costs…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, November 16. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 November 1908 · page 7

Five men and one woman, who appeared before the Court for the first time on charges of drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default to be imprisoned until the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, November 17. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 7

Three first offenders for drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default six hours' imprisonment. William Fulton, for drunkenness, was fined 20s, in default…

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Port Elizabeth Flooded. Several Lives Lost. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 5

A terrific thunderstorm caused the Barkins River to rise with startling rapidity and flood Port Elizabeth, in Cape Colony…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, November 18. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 November 1908 · page 7

Three first offenders for having been drunk were each fined 5s, or six hours. Grace Scowley, 44, for using improper language, was fined 10s, or three days…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 7

Verdicts for the amounts claimed, with costs were given in the following cases:—Howell and Thorpe v. J. Wallace, £1 17s 5d, for goods sold. Mr. H. H…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, November 19. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default six hours' imprisonment. Peter Brannan, 46 seaman, was fined 10s, in default 24…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, November 20. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 7

One man, who appeared for the first time on a charge of drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default, to be imprisoned for six hours. Henry Sefton, 55, seaman, for…

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Mount Stewart in a Gale. Loss of an Apprentice. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 December 1908 · page 5

Some weeks ago a cable message was received in Sydney by Captain C. Green, of the firm of Banks and Green, reporting that an apprentice named Hull, on…

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Flood in Norfolk Island. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1908 · page 4

A flood has occurred in Norfolk Island, all the low-lying lands being flooded. The wind had been blowing hard from east-south-east for the last few days,…

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Storms at Sea. Steamer Founders. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1908 · page 5

A Turkish steamer bound from Constantinople to Sevastopol foundered in a storm. The crew and fifty passengers were…

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A Destructive Storm. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 December 1908 · page 6

Information was received in Brisbane late to-night to the effect that a terrific hailstorm, accompanied by fierce wind, passed over Laidley and Harrisville late…

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Barque in a Gale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1908 · page 4

The four-masted barque Earl of Dunmore, on her voyage from Prederickstadt to Melbourne, had an experience of a sensational character. Whilst "running down her…

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The Moana in a Gale. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 December 1908 · page 5

The Vancouver mail steamer Moana arrived at Pinkenba this morning with a full passenger list and a large general cargo for Australia…

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Flooded Engineroom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1908 · page 4

The steamer Morayshire, which arrived at Wellington, from Liverpool recently, reported that on December 8, at 2.30 a.m., the circulating discharge passage of the condenser…

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