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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1905

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How Cables Are Damaged. Storms and Boring-worms. Modern Robinson Crusoes

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 17 November 1905 · page 12

The difficulty attending the efficient maintenance of the network of submarine telegraph cables, by which intelligence is flashed to the uttermost ends…

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Last Week's Storm at Raymond Terrace

The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 8

Raymond Terrace was visited on Friday 17th inst., by the heaviest windstorm ever reported there. People were dazed. Fortunately, the force of the wind soon…

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A Belfast Dock Flooded. Work Worth £[?] Destroyed in Half a M[?]te

Northern Star · Monday 27 November 1905 · page 3

A new graving dock being built, at [?] fast, was [?]ooded, involving damage to the extent of £100.000. It is believed that it will be [?]per to abandon the work and…

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Brisbane Cyclonic Storm. City and Suburbs Deluged. Several Lives Lost

Northern Star · Monday 11 December 1905 · page 2

It is many years since Brisbane recorded 6in[?] of rain in a fewer number of hours. At a quarter to 11 o'clock rain commenced to fall, and by half-past eleven it was…

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Cyclonic Storm

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 3

BRISBANE was on Thursday last visited by a serious of storms, one of which was of a cyclonic nature. In the early hours of the morning threatened from…

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Another German Reverse. Hootentots Storm a Camp

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 16

The correspondent of the London "Daily Mall" cabled from Capetown on 12th October:—The Hottentot chiefs, Marnego and…

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To Flood the Sahara

Northern Star · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 14

It would not be a very difficult undertaking to convert the great depression of the Sahara into an in[?] occan, as once it was. Such a scheme is already being…

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