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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1905

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The Herald of the Storm. a Symbolic Poem

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 3

Over gloomy occean strutches winds have gathered angry storm-clouds, And between the clouds and waters Darts, like a black fork of lightning,…

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Heavy Floods at Nyngan. Tuesday, noon

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 26 April 1905 · page 2

FULLY two inches have fallen here up in the present. It is still raining heavily. Allocations in the district report heavy ruins. If the fall continues for a few days there must be a bigger…

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The Herald of the Storm. a Symbolic Poem

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

Over gloomy ocean structures Winds have gathered angry storm-clouds, And between the clouds and waters Darts, like a black fork of lightning…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Flood in Dandaloo. Nyngan, Friday noon

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 5

Dandaloo reports flood waters are running through the town. There is a prospect of a record Hood, the biggest ever known. Beautifully flue weather at Nyugan to-day,…

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Low Barometrical Readings. Are we to Expect High Gales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 31 May 1905 · page 2

LOCAL barometers indicated an extraordinarily low reading on Monday night. Mr. Fitzhardinge at West Dubbo recorded 28 40, which is tho lowest for upwards of 20 years. The…

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Accident in Friday Evening's Storm. A Valuable Horse Killed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 31 May 1905 · page 2

A POPULAR incident resulted from the severe storm of Friday evening last. Mrs. McVicar, of Whylandr[?], was driving home with hor friend Miss Groig at the time of the atmospheric…

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Floods in Tasmania

The Wellington Times · Thursday 1 June 1905 · page 4

Tasmania is experiencing the worst floods for many years. Miles of country are under water, and traffic is suspended in many planes…

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Church and Stace. "A Deluge Across the Chasm." Actors' Church Union. British and American Societies

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 2 June 1905 · page 5

In June, 1890; the Actors' Church Alliance of America was formed, with Bishop potter, Bishop of New York, as provident. A little later a kindred…

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Bain and Gales. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 5

Further rams havejallen practically over the whole of the State. Heavy falls have occurred in the city, and boistrous gales and a heavy sea are raging about the coast…

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Floods in Tasmania

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 5

The floods in Tasmania continue. Two fatalities have occurred. There have been large losses of stock and great damage to railways. Train traffic in some instances has been…

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Poetry. HEART-STORMS

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

The shadow of night is falling, But the shore is sunlit yet: Oh tranquil tide, what a flood you bear Of bitter and wild regret!…

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The New Zealand Flood

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 28 June 1905 · page 1

As the result of floods the streets of Grey-mouth. New Zeeland, resemble a river had, being covered with shingle and torn into gaping holes…

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Floods in New Zealand. People Recused by Boats

The Castlereagh · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 2

A heavy gale, accompanied with rain, has been experienced from wellington south ward to Canterbury. The local telephone and tramway service were…

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The Murry in Flood

The Castlereagh · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 3

The Murray river in still rising and in within a foot of the highest feed on record…

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Famine and Flood. London, Monday Night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1905 · page 2

The absence of rain is causing anxiety regarding the crops in the Punjab, India. The monsoonal rains are all practically confined to Gnjerat and Kathia war where…

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Severe Thunderstorm in Town. Two Hotels Struck

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 30 August 1905 · page 2

ON Saturday about 8 p.m. a sudden and exceptionally severe thunderstorm lasting only about fifteen or twenty minutes broke over the town A thunderclap of exceptional violence heralded…

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Floods in Ireland. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 August 1905 · page 2

Great damage has been done by floods in Ireland. Nearly 3½ inches of rain fell in Dublin within 24 hours…

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Storms

The Wellington Times · Thursday 31 August 1905 · page 4

Cyclonic storms passed over the city last night, and dangerous conditions prevail along the coast…

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Floods at Shanghai. Hundreds' Drowned. London, Monday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1905 · page 2

Great floods are reported from Shanghai. Chinese villages have been demolished, and hundreds drowned, is the Wasting and Pating districts…

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South Coast Gales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 September 1905 · page 5

Heavy gales were raging along the south coast yesterday. Two ketches, the Kiora and Hero, were driven ashore on Gabo Island…

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