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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1904

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In Flood

Manilla Express · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 2

The Hunter River is in flood, and rose 20 feet during nine hours at Belmore Bridge, West Maitland…

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Latest Telegrams Queensland Storms. Mail Boat Wkecked. Sydney

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

Exceptionally heavy weather has been experienced on the Queensland coast, particularly in the vicinity of Cairns and Port Douglas. Several…

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Latest. Sydney. a Cyclone

Manilla Express · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 2

A cyclono swept over the township of Foster, accompanied by torrents of rain, last night. Houses, gardens, and crops suffered severely, and a number of…

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Latest Cables. Russo-Japanese War. Awaiting Mobilisation. Sharp Conflicts. Anticipating Floods. Suspected Souttling. Chinese Reform. True Believers. London

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 3

The "Times" special war correspondent after visiting the Japanese base in Korea, reports that Kuroki's Army has secured strategic positions enabling it…

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Gerley Gossip. Heavy Rain

The Moree News · Friday 8 April 1904 · page 2

I have much pleasure in reporting [?]change in the weather which [?]last week. There were 460 points of good [?]…

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Latest. Sydney. Coastal Floods

Manilla Express · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 2

There is every prospect of a big flood at Winsor. The river is rising a foot an hour. Communication with many outlying…

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Any Port in a Storm. By Howard Fielding, in "Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph."

The Moree News · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 4

Miss Flora Ford was on her way from Boston to her home in Philadelphia. Home people whom she knew had come with her as far as New York and had…

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Terrific Cyclone

Manilla Express · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 2

A terrific cyclone has occurred at Darn, New Guinea. Every building in the settlement was levelled…

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Terrific Gales

Manilla Express · Wednesday 1 June 1904 · page 2

The ship Walken Abbey, which arrived from Philadelphia to-day, encountered a series of terrific gales. Two sailors were lost Overboard off…

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A Winter Storm

Manilla Express · Wednesday 15 June 1904 · page 2

THUNDERSTORMS in winter are uncommon. A disturbance occurred hero on Sunday night which, for a time, was as desperate as it was strange…

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Coastal Gales

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1904 · page 3

A terrific coastal gale raged throughout last night. Heavy seas were running and shipping has been delayed…

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Saturday's Storm

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1904 · page 3

On Saturday night we were in formed at the local post office that the result of the races had not arrived owing to the line being interrupted…

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Latest Telegrams Sydney, Friday, Death of Sir George Dises. Sir George Dibbs died this morning. SYDNEY, Saturday, 10.30 a.m. Hemmed in by Flood

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1904 · page 3

Mr. J. Lewis, the Liberal and Reform candidate for Deniliquin, has been found hemmed in on an island by flood waters where he had been for ten days. He had…

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Short Story. a Storm

Manilla Express · Saturday 3 September 1904 · page 3

INTO the dark wet night he disappeared, and never once turned his head to give a last look at the white, angry, little face pressed against the window pane…

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Storm in South Australia

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 2

A terrific windstorm, accompanied by heavy rain, occurred at Oodnadatta South Auntralia, on Sunday, when many buildings were unroofed and a…

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Gales and Heavy Seas

Manilla Express · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 4

Gales and heavy seas on the coast are still interfering with coastal shipping…

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Cyclone Fencing

Manilla Express · Saturday 8 October 1904 · page 4

THE new system of cyclone fencing, that has just heralded its advent in our midst, gives promises of revolutionizing the old method of fencing, and is, in our…

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Rains and Floods

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 October 1904 · page 3

Copious general rains are predicted and floods in ports of the State…

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A Gale

Manilla Express · Saturday 15 October 1904 · page 4

A gale has been, raging in New Zealand with unabated fury. Railway and telegraph communications are interrupted, and shipping is…

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