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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1910

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Storm at Nyngan. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 3

A severe storm was experienced at Nyngan on Friday night. Four or five miles of fences were blown down or washed away…

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Brewarrina Cyclone. Enormous Damage. Hailstones Kill Animals. Numerous Buildings Blown Down. Railway Washaways. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 3

Further particulars of the cyclone at Brewarrina on Saturday night, and reported in the telegrams in the "Star" published yesterday, state:—…

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Ants and the Flood

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 4

Ants and aboriginals have attained a reputation for foreseeing events by natural methods unknown to the white race of human beings. In regard to…

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Floods in France. London, Sunday Afternoon

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 3

Seven thousand people at Genne Villiers were rescued. Parisians are demanding the straightening of the Scien, at whatever cost, like…

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The Western Floods. Waters Subsiding at Walgett. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 3

Both rivers at Walgett continue to full slowly, and the water is gradually receding from the flats around the township…

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Gales and Floods

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 4

Owing to the heavy gale on the coast and the attendant big sea, there will be no seamers entering the river to-day, (says Monday's Ballina " Times.") The…

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The Western Floods. Waters Slowly Subsiding. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 5

The [?]arwon and the Namol rivers at Walgett are [?]th falling slowly. The town is still completely hemmed in but a portion of the low-lying parts is…

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Flood in Paris. Enormous' Losses. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 5

Reuter's Paris correspondent states many miles of streets, the richest equally with the poor quarters, are still practically canals, whereon boats day and night carry…

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The [?] Cyclone

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 4

Brewar[?] residents passed high encomi[?] on the Postal Service on Monday for the expedition in [?] the situation was grappled with [?] a trying period, and…

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Cyclone at Brewarrina Sydney

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 4

The town of Brewarrina was visited last Friday by the most terrific cyclone ever known in the history of the district…

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The Paris Floods

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 5

Several persons caught pillaging in Paris have been lynched. Two were drowned and one hung to a telephone pole. Some men and women were stripped in the streets…

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Floods Relief Funds. London

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 3

The Mansion House fund for the sufferers by floods in Paris already amounts to £26,000. The French have raised £80.000…

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Floods in France. French Hooligan Punished. Other Defender Summarily Dealt With. London, Tuesday Afternoon

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 3

French bluejackets pursued a boatload of Apaches at Alfortville. Shots were exchanged, and the Apaches' boat sunk. Two of them were drowned and one hanged from…

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Another Flood Feared. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 3

The River Darling is reported to be rising fast, and fears of a flood are entertained at Bourke. Owing to the flood waters rising…

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The Western Floods. Waters [?] Fast. Heavy [?] Losses. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 3

The flood waters are receding fast at Collarenebri. One station alone is said to have lost 30.000 sheep. A number of settlers have…

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Queensland Floods. Rail-ways Under Water. Brisbane

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 3

Owing to the floods in Queensland many washaways have occurred on the railway lines. The water is three feet over the rails at…

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Cyclone at Brewarrina

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 3

BREWARRINA on Friday night was visited by a most terrific cyclone, when it is estimated that damage was done to the extent of £ 15,000. The…

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Result of the Floods

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 4

THE Rev. H. A. Murphy, who has been appointed by the Bishop of Grafton and Armidale to the charge of the proposed parichial district of Wyan, is unable to get…

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Telegraphig News. Flood Waters Falling Slowly. Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 3

The Barwon and Namoi Rivers at Walgett are still falling slowly. Thousands of arres of country are still submerged…

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Floods in France. London

Northern Star · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 3

The president of the Chamber of Deputies announced that testimonies of sympathy, for which Frenchmen were grateful, were being received from all countries in the…

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