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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1910

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Mulai Hafid Subscribes to Paris Floods Relief Fund. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 February 1910 · page 5

Mulai Hafid, Sultan of Morocco, has subscribed 20,000 francs to the Paris Floods Relief Fund…

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Further Floods in Paris. London

Northern Star · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 3

An alarming rise in the River Seine has caused a renewal of the floods in the suburbs of Paris, owing to a torrential rainstorm in the Tante Marne district…

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Sunspots and Magnetic Storms

Northern Star · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 11

Professor Gregory has recently delivered a brilliant lecture on the above relation. Professor Gregory showed a table prepared at Greenwich Observatory from the…

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Paris Floods. London, Sunday Afternoon

Northern Star · Tuesday 22 February 1910 · page 3

The River Seine is again falling…

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Gales in Britain. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 February 1910 · page 5

The steamer Fesciumpa, bound from Chili for Queenstown, with A cargo of nirate, was wrecked at Clonalty Bay, on the coast of County Cork, and her crew of 20…

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Record Velocity of Sunday's Gale. London, Tuesday Afternoon

Northern Star · Thursday 24 February 1910 · page 3

The official record of Sunday's gale is that it reached 100 miles an hour in Great Britain…

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Heavy Gale. London, Sunday Afternoon

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 March 1910 · page 3

A heavy gale tore up trees, and there is terrible weather on the coasts…

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Other Serious Floods. London

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 March 1910 · page 3

Ser[?]s [?]ations have occured from Dinant to Na[?]. The factories at Marchienne are fooded and 5000 workers have been thrown out…

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Floods. London

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 3 March 1910 · page 4

As a result of floods at Cleveland, Ohio, at least 200 pursuits are dead and many homeless. Seven factories are closing. The damage amounts…

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General Booth Suggests a Deluge of Fire

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 2

GENERAL BOOTH drew a lurid picture of a possibly imminent cataclysm in his address at the Congress Hall, Clapton, London…

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The End of the World Coming. Through Awful Heat Intense Cold, or Flood

Northern Star · Saturday 5 March 1910 · page 3

Some time since it was prog[?] by Professor Langley that we were [?] end of the world through the [?] the sun to radiate heat. This, of [?]…

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The French Floods. Paris Devastated

Northern Star · Saturday 5 March 1910 · page 7

The "Herald's" London letter, Jan 28 days:—"Paris has been suffering from a flood of unparalleled magnitude, and is still in the th[?] thereof. Can you…

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Floods in South Australia, Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 10 March 1910 · page 3

The country is flooited in many parts of South Australia…

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Southerly Gale. Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 3

A southerly gale, with heavy seas, raged along the coast during the night…

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The Gales in England. London, Wednesday Afternoon

Northern Star · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 3

The lighthouse men on the [?]stone lighthouse have been relieved after waiting for a fortnight for the subsidence of the gales…

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The Gale on the Coast.—sea-birds Overhead

Northern Star · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 2

A heavy south-east gale was blowing on the coast yesterday. Towards night it[?] appeared to have a good deal more of east in it. Some gusts were very strong[?]ast…

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The Weather. Heavy Rains and Gales

Northern Star · Saturday 12 March 1910 · page 9

The weather yesterday was that of a winter's day with cold driving rain. Following as it did the showers of the previous day the almost continuous rain yesterday…

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One Effect of the Floods

Northern Star · Saturday 12 March 1910 · page 8

The Minister for lands, who returned to Sydney on Saturday from [?] and Ma[?], says the country in these parts is looking very [?]. Despite the fact that…

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The Northern Star. Published Daily. Monday, March 14, 1910. Dredge and Punt Adrift at Sea Tow Lines Broke at Night in a Gale. Both Now Stranded. Ten Lives in Great Peril

Northern Star · Monday 14 March 1910 · page 2

The dredge Ulysses and a punt intended for work in this river were being towed up by the Government tugs Burundah and Rheu. They passed Smoky Cape at 3.15…

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Tugs in a Gale

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 2

WORD was received on Saturday that the dredge Ulysses and a punt were being towed from Newcastle during the height of a gale, aud it was feared that the ten men…

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