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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1894

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Floods in the Coastal Rivers

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1894 · page 8

OUR telegrams last issue notified the fact that heavy floods had taken place in several of the rivers to the south. Particulars are now to hand, and notify…

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Our Serial. the Dis-honorable: a Mystery of the Queensland Floods. Copyright: Published by special arrangement with Hennessy's Intercolonial Press Association.) Chapter Xxxv. a Dying Woman's Confession: The Mystery Solved

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 March 1894 · page 4

IT was about half-past nine one evening, nearly a week after Jackson had said good-bye, when a cab drove ap to The Palms Cottage at New Form, and a young girl, cloaked and…

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Terrille storm at Bourke

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 March 1894 · page 2

ONE of the most terrific storms ever witnessed in Bourke occurred on Wednesday morning, 21st instant, at half-past 10 o'clock. It could he soon approaching from the north-west, but was not…

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Our Serial. the Dis-honorable: a Mystery of the Queensland Floods. Copyright : Published by special arrangement with Hennessey's Intercolonial Press Association.) Chapter Xxxv.—continued

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1894 · page 4

" AND look! I'm glad to die, although I suppose that I shall go to the bad place, but it cannot be worse than this. Do you know," she said staring wildly round, " every night I…

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The Queensland Floods

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 April 1894 · page 2

A BRISBANE telegram of Saturday states:—A wire has been received stating that the Etheridge Gold Field is flooded. From Urandangie it is reported that the Georwina River is in flood. The town is…

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Floods in Queensland

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 3

TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday.—News has been received from the captains of coastal vessels which were detained in Northern ports, during the gale to the effect…

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The Northern Star. Saturday Morning, 21St April, 1894. Escape for Flood Waters

Northern Star · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 2

AT the presout time MR. M 'MORDIE, C.E., the officer who recommended the utility of a series of works…

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Was There a Flood

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 2

ONE of the largest meetings over held by the Victoria Institute of London, England, took place in the third week of March to hear that, well-known "Nestor among Geologists," Prof. Prostwich…

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Floods in Victoria

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 September 1894 · page 6

FROM Hopetoun (Victoria) comes news that the district has been inundated by the biggest flood known for years. The Yurriambeach Creek has overlowed…

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CABLEGRAMS Great Floods In England, London

Northern Star · Saturday 17 November 1894 · page 3

The'heavy gales and floods continue' unabated in England. There are numerous additional deaths by drawning. Owing to the floods in the western counties…

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