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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1890

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The Effects of tho Floods

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 5

SINCE the flood wasters have gone down we are in a position to give a few definite particulars of how the residents have fared. The South Arm above Deep Crook has not…

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Incidents of the Flood on the Clarence. ULMARRA, Friday evening

Northern Star · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 5

THE destruction is only becoming visible, and in the parts uncovered, by the water it is extreme. Can anyone imagine a boat's crew going ont to save people on a dark night, the…

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Flood Relief Votes

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 March 1890 · page 2

THE destruction caused by the late flood has been such as to blight the hopes of the most sanguine of our farmers and business people, and the terrible weather…

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Floods in the Early Days

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 March 1890 · page 3

As Mr. Egeson's foreonsts of the coming weather have excited very great attention, it appears to me extraordinary that in the caloulations on which he founds his theory he…

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The Floods in Queensland. STANTHORPE, March 30

Northern Star · Saturday 5 April 1890 · page 6

THE Texas mailman arrived this evening and brought accounts of a fearful flood experienced there. The water commenced to rise about 5 o'clock on Thursday evening, and…

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Government Townships and the Floods

Northern Star · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 4

THE following remarks contained in a letter which appeared recently in the ' S. M. Herald' apply with equal force to the towns on the Eastern Coast:—…

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The Floods at Bourke. A Town in Imminent Danger. BOURKE

Northern Star · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 2

BOURKE so far is safe, but how long this safety may continue is a question. The town itself looks as if it is in a state of siege. Around nearly every brick building fortifications are…

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The Flood at Bourke. Bursting of the Embankment. BOURKE

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 2

THE break which inundated the town took place at a quarter-past 4 o'clock at a point three-quarters of a mile from the town, near the Bourke Hospital, and about 30 chains…

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The Flood at Bourke

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 25 April 1890 · page 6

BOURKE has experienced the highest flood known for years. Notwithstanding the strenuous efforts made to keep the town safe the embankments gave way on Friday…

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A Remedy for Preventing Damage by Floods

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 May 1890 · page 5

SIR,—The river here is in flood again, with every prospect of as much trouble and loss as we have had during other floods, and more especially in the last one. Surely it is time…

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Floods in America

Northern Star · Saturday 14 June 1890 · page 6

ALONG the valley of the Mississippi terrible devastation was caused in March by the rising of the great river and its tributaries. Hundreds, if not thousands, of square miles…

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In the Assembly. Floodgate at Lismore

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1890 · page 6

IN the House on 26th August, Mr. Nicoll moved,-" That this House will, on Tuesday next, resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to consider an…

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An American Cyclone

Northern Star · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 4

A GENUINE Western cyclone, such as has hitherto been unknown in the Eastern part of America, visited Lawrence, a thriving Massach [?] town, on July 26, killing six persons and injuring 50,…

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An Appaling Disaster! the Recent Cyclone in America and Its Awful Results. Its Origin Scientifically Accounted For, and Some Remote Causes That Produce Painful Effects Explained

Northern Star · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 6

THE recent cyclone in America, which left Ohio Valley a scene of desolation, destroying hundreds of lives and thousands of pounds worth of property, has again called the…

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The Lifeboat Storm King

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 17 October 1890 · page 4

THIS boat, in which Captain Jorgensen and his first officer were 11 months coming out from London to Australia, ia a remarkable craft, and the following particulars…

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The Storm on the Baltic Coast

Northern Star · Saturday 18 October 1890 · page 6

THE most terrible. hurricane experienced during the present century occurred at Helsingfors on August 30, causing immense destruction in its course. Beautiful forests,…

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Floods in China

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1890 · page 6

THIS year again China is visited by disastrous inundations, especially in the Northern provinces of Shantung and Chihli. The reports say that tens of…

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