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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

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Channel Gale Steamer in Distress Storm Causes Leak LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 25 March 1922 · page 1

The gale in the Channel has slackened and crossings have been resumed. The United States steamer West Caruth had an exciting experience. It…

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Empress in Danger Japanese Storm Battleship's Last Voyage TOKIO

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 March 1922 · page 6

A storm swept over southern Japan yesterday, and caught the battleship Settsu, on an inland sea, when the Empress was aboard, returning to…

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Wickham Silt Danger of Flood

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 4

Alderman Colman moved at Wickham Council meeting last night that the Parliamentary members be asked to urge that the straightening of the…

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A Storm of Comment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 13

The Bishop's remarks raised a storm of comment from one end of New Zealand to the other. The Mayor of Auckland at once took action. He said the speech,…

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Maitland Floodgates Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 8

In the matter of the summons by the Tarro Shire Council against the East Maitland Municipal Council and the Minister for Local Government in regard…

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On the Warpath Republican Invasion of Ulster Border Storm Centre Escapades of a Female Cyclist London

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 1

"The Times" reports serious fresh outrages in, Ireland. The disbandment of the R.I.C. has been suspended, and British troops are guarding Dublin Castle. LONDON, Friday…

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Makambo in a Gale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1922 · page 6

The Burns, Philp steamer Makambo, which arrived at Sydney yesterday from Villa, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, had an adventurous voyage…

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Australians at Genoa Full Representation and Voting Power Russians As Storm Birds Tchicherin Ruled Out of Order LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 April 1922 · page 1

Reuter's correspondent at Genoa telegraphs that Sir Joseph Cook, Mr. Shepherd, and Mr. Campion will sit on the different commissions which will deal in a preliminary way with matters coming before the conference…

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Floods in America Losses in Western States VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 April 1922 · page 1

Floods throughout the Western States of America have caused millions of dollars' worth of damage…

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Floods in America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1922 · page 5

A message from New York states that floods have caused damage estimated at several millions of dollars throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,…

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Easter-tide Gales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 April 1922 · page 5

A heavy gale is spoiling the Easter holidays, shipping sheltering. Several sailors have been washed overboard, and others injured. Two liner from India…

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Another Flood? Melting of Piled-up Ice

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1922 · page 5

In many parts of the world geologists find signs that seem to point to a time when the sea level was much higher than It is now. In British Columbia, along the…

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Storm and Flood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 April 1922 · page 5

According to Chicago messages the worst storms and floods seen for half a century have been sweeping the States of Illinois and Indiana…

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Thirteen Days' Gale Colliboi's Experience LAUNCESTON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 April 1922 · page 6

Tey were the roughest seas I have ever seen. They were braking over the reefs round Mill Island to the height of 60 feet, and the gale was terrific," said…

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Fifty Dead Floods and Tornadoes Mississippi Valley Enormous Stock Losses VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 April 1922 · page 1

Fifty are dead and hundreds have been injured as the result of floods and cloudbursts in Western Indiana and through the…

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The Floodgates

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 April 1922 · page 6

A conference between the East and West Maitland Councils was held recently on the question of repairing the Wallis Creek floodgates. At last night's…

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The American Storms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1922 · page 5

Telegrams from Chicago give additional details of the terrible storms which have been sweeping over the middle-west of the United States…

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Storm in Tea-cup "Not a Mug"

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 April 1922 · page 8

Because a certain door included among additions to Wallsend Hospital was not up to standard, storm in a teacup broke out at a meeting of the…

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Gale on English Coast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1922 · page 5

In consequence of high tides, and a terrific storm, three German destroyers, which had been laid up at Grange-mouth for the past two years, dragged…

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Caught by Gale Cattleship's Danger Food and Fuel Gone LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 April 1922 · page 1

The Donaldson liner Orthia, which left St. John's (New Brunswick) on March 20 for Glasgow with a cargo of cattle, was held up by terrific…

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