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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1923

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Luggers Wrecked. Storm Off Wallal

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 14 March 1923 · page 5

PERTH, Tuesday.--A pearling lugger, reached Broome on Saturday, and reported a big blow off Wallal, on the 90 Mile Beach. She brought the crews of…

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Terrific Storm. Sweeps United States. Forty-six Natalities Reported

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 March 1923 · page 5

CHICAGO, Monday.—A ruinous, storm emerging from the south-west took 25 lives and destroyed property the value of which cannot be estimated. It cut off…

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Ruinous Storms. Forty- Six Lives Lost. Large Part of the U. S. A. Badly Damaged

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 14 March 1923 · page 5

NEW YORK, Monday.--It is stated in a message from Chicago that a ruinous storm, emerging from the southwest, took 25 lives and destroyed…

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Icy Water Fish and Eels Frozen Stiff. Phenomenal Storm on the Dry River

Tweed Daily · Thursday 15 March 1923 · page 3

BEGA, Wednesday. --Reports of a phenomenal fall of hail come from Dry River, 20 miles away Lumps of jagged ice the size of a cricket ball fell, and…

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Local and General. Heavy Rain at Rappville

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 2

Beneficial showers fell on Saturday afternoon and evening, and on Tuesday night there was a violent thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning and a…

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Balkan Floods. Heavy Death Roll

Tweed Daily · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. --The correspondent of the "Daily Express" in Athens reports that violent floods have occurred in Macedonia, Southern Serbia and…

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Flood of Reminiscences. Publication of War Documents. Defended by Mr. Lloyd George. Inner History of the Treaty

Northern Star · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 5

(Copyrighted by the United Press in America. Copyrighted in all countries. Copyrighted by the Australian Press Association, Copyrighted in Britain by the 44 "London…

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Alarming Storm Thunder Claps Shake Sydney

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 March 1923 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday. --A terrific thunder clap at 6.30 this evening struck terror into people on their way home from business…

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Storm in Sydney. Damage Done to Roads

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 March 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Heavy rain fell in Sydney and suburbs to-night. Shortly after 6 o'clock the sky became overcast, and just afterwards there was a terrific thunder clap…

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Widespread Industrial Storm. National Council Deadlock. Lower Wages, Longer Hours

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 21 March 1923 · page 3

LONDON', Tuesday.— United Service: The first symptom of the breaking of a widespread industrial storm was seen to-day, when the Building Trade…

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Violent Thunderstorm. Fireball in George-street. Panic-stricken People

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 21 March 1923 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A violent thunderstorm burst on the city and suburbs last night and lasted over an hour, and was accompanied by…

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Extensive Floods Disaster in Zambesi County Famine and Disease Break Out

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 March 1923 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. --Extensive flooding of the Zambesi country has caused a serious situation. Railway communication has been…

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South African Floods. Serious Position Reported

Northern Star · Thursday 22 March 1923 · page 5

CAPETOWN,Tuesday.—Extensive flooding in the Zambesi country has caused a serious situation. Railway communications are broken and thousands of natives driven out…

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Heavy Rain in Queensland

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 27 March 1923 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday.--Very heavy rain fell in the far north during the week-end, the registrations ranging to four inches and a half…

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Raging Cyclone

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 March 1923 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--A dangerous tropical cyclone is raging on the extreme North Coast of Queensland. Violent seas are running along the…

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Pearling Lugger Safe. Disappeared in Storm

Northern Star · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 5

PERTH, Tuesday.—A pearling lugger, which disappeared in a recent storm off Wallal, has been reported safe…

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Storms Ahead Lively Session Expected. Progressives to Apply the Whip Over Neglect of Country Interests

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 3 April 1923 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday. --A move is being made by the Progressive party with a view to getting certain Nationalists to transfer their allegiance and financial…

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Steamer Missing. Four Days Overdue. North Queensland Cyclone

Northern Star · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 4

BRISBANE, Thursday.—The Government steamer Douglas Mawson, which left Burketown oh March 26 or 27 and should have reached Thursday Island under normal…

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Golfer Kirkwood's Escape. in the Air in a Storm

Northern Star · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 5

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—At Etlerbe, North Carolina, Kirkwood, who left Pinehurst eh route for Asheville in an aeroplane piloted by James Cole, had n narrow escape from…

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A Missing Steamer. No Word of Douglas Mawson. Was in Track of Cyclone

Northern Star · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday,—A telegram, received by the managing director of John Burke, Ltd., from the firm's agent at Burketown, states, that, the Douglas Mawson crossed out…

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