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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1910

39 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

Tamworth Flooded

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

THE most disastrous flood ever experienced in the north has occurred in the Tamworth district. The town itself has been extensively damaged…

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Disastrous Flood

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 5

THE most disastrous flood ever experienced in the north has occurred in the Tamworth district. The town itself has been extensively, damaged,…

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Floods in the North

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 2

The most disastrous flood ever experienced in the north has occurred in the lam worth district. The town itself has been extensively…

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The Floods. Children Tied to Trees

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 2

WIDESPREAD distress prevails among the sufferers by the flood at Wee Waa. A constable and a ferry man had a terrible experience in a rescue boat. They…

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Disastrous Floods Damage to Property and Loss of Life. Gunnedah

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 6

Gunnedah and the district for miles around are in a chaotic condition. The flood which swept through Tamworth on Saturday…

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The Floods ia the North

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 2

Further harrowing [?] of the destruction and [?] caused by the floods in the north are published in the Sydney papers on Wednesday. The waters of the…

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Terrific Storm. Parts of the Town Flooded Extensive Damage

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 2

THE worst storm experienced in Queanbeyan for very many years occurred on Saturday last, and will not soon be…

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The Floods

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 2

Two rowing boats and six members of the Water Police at Newcastle left Narrabri on Thursday for Walgett. The party had a trying time in getting to Wee Waa. and the…

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Heavy Rainstorm. Monaro-street Flooded

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 2

ON Saturday morning banks of thunder clouds in the north west indicated a downpour of rain. Shortly after ten o'clock heavy rain, accompanied with…

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Before the Storm

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 4

The windiess day was heavy with unrest. As though the troubled summer, swooning, dreamed…

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The Floods. MOREE

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 6

The first train from Sydney for over a week arrived at Morse at 6 p.m. on Saturday. A large crowd gathered at the [?] and [?] was [?] The local…

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The Floods

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 2

LANGUAGE fails to depict the miseries, wretchedness and loss that have been caused by the disastrous floods. Some have…

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Flood Relief. John Norton's Donations

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 2

Last Monday Mr. Norton forwarded from Nyngan cheques for the following donations in aid of the destitute victims of the disastrous floods in the…

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Local Land Board. (Before Mr. Finch, Chairman, and Messrs. J. Gale and E. G. Atkinson.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 2

MEETINGS of the Local Land Board for the Land District of Queanbeyan were held in the Courthouse at Queanbeyan on Monday and Tuesday. Results of Tuesday's sittings;…

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Matters Feminine. a Word to Women. The Pleasures of Middle Age. After the Storm and Stress. (Concluded from last week.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 3

Youth is delightful, glorious, a splendid gift from the gods, but only half realised while we have it, fully appreciated when it is…

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Thursday's Thunderstorm at Oallen

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 February 1910 · page 2

THE following account of the thunderstorm at Oallen, Timberlight and Welcome Reef appears in Saturdays Evening News :- Three Inches of rain fell in little over an hour…

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February Floods

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 February 1910 · page 2

Disastrous floods occurred in the Southern districts during this month fifty years since, and our local weather prophet, Mr. Quilty, has predicted their occurrence again towards…

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Snowfall and Floods

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 February 1910 · page 4

It is well-known that the amount of snowfall in the Rocky Mountains determines the flow of water in the leading rivers that head in this…

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The Flood at Oallen

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 2

LATER accounts which we have received of the flood at Oallen, on the Shealhaven River, on Thursday week describe it as something [?]dented for the past twenty years. The rain came…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Tuesday, February 22, 1910 The Show Carnival. Formally Opened by the Premier. Officials. PRESIDENT.—Mr. R. Moore; Vice Presidents, Messrs. A. J. McDonald and A. W. Moriarty; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. A. H. Croaker; Auditors, Messrs. W. R. Cantle and G. L. Radcliffe; Committee, Messrs. C. T. Campbell, R. Hayes, W. E. Gale, J. M. McIntosh, J. T. Collett, A. J. Studdy, C. H. McKeahnie, E. E. Hudson, R. R. Hetherington, R. J. S. Fallick, H. T. Korff, N. H. Gibbs, G. C. P. Circuitt, G. W. Harcourt, E. G. Crace, James Cunningham, W. F. Davidson, E. E. Morgan, T. P. Maxwell, S. B. Shrives, William Pike, Walter McIntosh, E. O. Moore, John Southwell; Secretary, Mr. E. C. Hincksman

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 February 1910 · page 2

THAT Australians are a pleasure-seeking, holiday-loving people, to a degree hard to be eclipsed—even in the South of Europe, where high-days and…

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