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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1911

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Floods at Cairns. (Continued from page 4.) CAIRNS, Monday night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 6

Rain is falling heavier than ever. Abbott-street is under water. The barometer is falling. Fresh-water Creek is level with the…

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Deluge of Authors

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 10

The history of the author and the publisher falls into two parts: in the first a gentleman, having no money, and written a book, employes a publisher; in the…

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Gale on Pacific Coast. Damage to Shipping. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 5

A heavy gale is blowing on the Pacific coast. Telegraphic and railway communication with some of the cities is…

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Floods in Queensland. Torrential Rain. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 5

The Commissioner of Police has received advice that 17 inches of rain have fallen at Ayr. It is still raining, and the Burdekin River is rising rapidly, Hallway…

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Queensland Rain Storms. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1911 · page 5

Heavy rain has been falling in Brisbane all day, with every indication of continuing. The weather bureau issued a special report at 11 a.m. to-day, stating that from…

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Gales and Rough Seas. Heavy Rainfall. More Flood Falls Predicted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

The rain which set in at Newcastle on Wednesday continued through the night, 278 points being registered up to 9 a.m. yesterday…

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Floods in Queensland. Weather Moderating. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 6

Heavy weather has delayed shipping, and several vessels are at anchor under the lee of Cape Moreton. The s.s. Wyreema, from Sydney, came through the…

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Gale Off Britain. Terrific Violence. Several Wrecks Reported. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 5

An abnormal gale in raging off the east and south coasts of Britain. The wind blew at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and occasionally with…

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London News. London, December 9th. the General Election.—duke of Connaught's Tour in South Africa.—floods in England.—salome in London. the General Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 7

The great battle is over, and the situation is practically "As you were," Both parties have alternated between hope and despair day by day, and at the moment…

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Floods in England

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 7

Floods in the Thames Valley, the Midlands, and the eastern counties have caused great damage this week. Five lives were lost through the rain and…

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Vaal River Flood. Houses Swept Away. Capetown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 5

The Vaal River is in flood. Two hotels and several other buildings were swept away. The damage is estimated at…

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Heavy Rain and Rough Weather

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1911 · page 6

The new year has once again been ushered in by a bounteous rainfall that has been distributed equally over the whole of the State, completely dispelling…

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Storms in Canada. Delay of Trains. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1911 · page 5

Severe storms have been experienced in Canada and the Northern and Eastern States. Trains were delayed on some lines…

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Our Sydney Letter. Cricket and Science.—mr. Collingridge and Early History. a Really Great Gale.—the Tram Conductor.—a Shortlived Strike.—australia and the English Market. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1911 · page 5

There is a feeling of relief that the South Africans won the third test. Anarchists may rise and full, Empires advance and dissolve, the destinies of the race be varied…

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In Saturday's Storm. the Gleaner Damaged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 4

The American barquentine Gleaner which left Newcastle on Saturday with a cargo of coal for sun Francisco, returned to port yesterday, having…

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Floods in England

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 9

During two days in the first week of December the rainfall over the Midlands and the southern counties of England was between one and two inches and as a…

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General Cable News. Floods in Oregon. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 5

Continuous heavy rain is causing floods in the State of Oregon…

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General Cable News. Floods in Oregon. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 5

Portland, Oregon, is isolated owing to big floods…

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Floods at Nantes. a Quay Undermined. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 5

Floods undermined the quay at Nantes, in France, eighty yards or which collapsed. Fifty persons had a narrow escape…

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Flood in North Queensland. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 5

The Acting Deputy Postmaster-General received the following report from the postmaster at Floraville: "The Normanton line has been interrupted since the 10th…

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