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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1896

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Floods in Queensland

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.—Heavy weather continues in Northern Queensland. Clermont is completely isolated, and surrounded by water. The railway…

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The Queensland Floods

Moruya Examiner · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 2

A late message from Townsville received by the way of Bowen, states that the cyclone began to be serous on Sunday evening are dusk,, when, sheets of. iron flew about in all…

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The Floods in Queensland

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Thursday. — George and James Hatfield, owners of the Gatton Station, Queensland, were drowned in attempting to swim a flooded creek,…

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The Floods in Queensland

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.—Floods are still raging at Rockhampton, where the water is backing right through the town…

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Rain and Floods

Moruya Examiner · Friday 21 February 1896 · page 2

DURING the past week we have had an illustration of the proverb that “what is one man’s food is another man’s poison.” The rain which, has been looked and longed…

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Terrific Gale in Victoria

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.—A terrific gale took place at Melbourne on Sunday afternoon, with great destruction of property. A woman was killed through…

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Severe Thunderstorm in Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.—A heavy thunderstorm occurred last night. Rain fell in torrents for about half an hour. A house at Erskineville was struck by…

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