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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1888

8 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

Flood in the Macleay

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1888 · page 2

A telegram from Kempsey, dated Dec, 30 in the Clarence EXAMINER states:—The weather last Sunday was excessively hot, the thermometer registering 99 in the shade. The evening…

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The Flood In the Hunter

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 4

THE fall of the waters gives ample proof of the destruction caused by it, in the places where the growing crops were submerged. Among some of the heaviest…

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The Great Floods in Hungary

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 May 1888 · page 3

FROM late files it is gathered that the situation in Bekes County, Hungary, is most critical, and it is doubtful whether the embankments around the…

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A New Kind of Storm Anchor

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 22 June 1888 · page 5

LAST Saturday afternoon some interesting experiments were made off Dover with a sea anchor which is designed for the use of vessels in urgent distress at sea. The…

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Severe Thunder-Storms and Loss of Life in Scotland

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1888 · page 4

THE most violent thunderstorm of recent years was experienced, in Scotland, on Saturday, May 19. The reports show that the storm was felt with almost equal…

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The Cyclone Pulveriser

Northern Star · Wednesday 8 August 1888 · page 2

SOME might think that the above title was simply a name given to an Ore Crushing Mill or Dry Grinding Mill, but this is not so, the title in one word explains a mode of reducing…

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Flood on the Planet Mars

Northern Star · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 1

No one of our neighbors in the solar system is better known to terrestrial astronomers than "the red planet Mars," partly became of its relative proximity 35,000,000 miles and…

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The Cyclone

Northern Star · Saturday 1 December 1888 · page 2

IN these sub-tropical climes where a large quantity of heated matter is, at times, held in suspension in the atmosphere, and must hence return to the earth by the natural…

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