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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1915

13 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Science Notes. a Storm Detector

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 3

The weather has a great deal to do with the demand for electric light. Hence it is necessary for an electric service company to keep an eye on…

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To-Day's Police. (Before Mr. John Gale, J.P.)

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 2

A young man named Lawrence Cully. who was arrested by the Bega police a couple of weeks ago on a charge of illegally using a horse at Cobargo, and who had subsequently…

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To-Day's Police Court. (Before Mr. John Gale, J.P.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 2

A young man named Lawrence Cully, who was arrested by the Bega police couple of weeks ago on a charge of illegally using a horse at Cobargo, and who had subsequently…

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Police Court. (Before Mr. John Gale, J.P.)

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 2

A young man named Lawrene Cully, who was arrested by the Bega policc a couple of weeks ago on a charge of illegally using a horse at Cobargo, and who had subsequently…

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Fish for Good Friday. Scarcity on Account of the Storm

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 2

FISHERMEN lined the hole called Colliers yesterday, and ares and rabbiters' lumps could be noticed gleaming in all direction. Though they waited till…

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The Thunderstorm. Alpha and Omega of the Human Spirit

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 19 April 1915 · page 7

There is nothing thai strikes such general (and not only personal) awe us the thunderstorm, it is indeed a sort of celestial crime, a…

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After the Storm

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 April 1915 · page 4

"While for centuries God has foretold the Day of Wrath and indicated that He will have to do with the precipitation of its trouble upon humanity…

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Big Flood

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 April 1915 · page 4

"A column of Russian troops in Asia Minor was halted by mud on the slopes of fount Ararat. We had supposed the mud had dried out there years ago…

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Police Court. (Before Mr. Jno. Gale, J.P.)

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 28 June 1915 · page 2

Two persons pleaded guilty to being drunk in Monaro Street and were each fined 2/6 or 12 hours' hard labor in the Queanbeyan lockup…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Monday, June 28, 1915. (Before Mr. Juo, Gale, J.P.)

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 June 1915 · page 3

Two persons pleaded guilty to being drunk in Monaro Street and were each fined 2/6 or 12 hours' hard labor in the Queanbeyan lockup…

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Flood in the Cotter

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 23 September 1915 · page 2

The Cotter River was in flood on Sunday and Monday. At the Water Works the water rose over the newly constructed…

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Liability of Councils for Flooding

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 October 1915 · page 2

In Stewart against the councils of the Municipality of Enfield the Full Court decided an important and apparently a new point on the liability…

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Cyclone Kills Soldier

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 December 1915 · page 2

During a cyclone yesterday a soldier named Mole, a member of the Light Horse camped at Chermside, was killed by a tent pole snapping…

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