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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1900

19 stories in South Coast's papers

Tremendous Storm at Wallabadah. Six Inches of Rain in an Hour. Immense Damage by Rail

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 4

ON Wednesday afternoon a tremendous over Wallabadah [?] Castle M[?], causing a [?] [?] windows,…

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Death of Mrs. Gale

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 7 March 1900 · page 1

Mrs. Gale, mother of Mr. E. Gale, late of the Albion Hotel, Nowra, died on Thursday last, aged 70 years, leaving two sons and two daughters. She…

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Death of Mrs. Gale

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 1

Mrs. Gale, mother of Mr. E. Gale, late of the Albion Hotel, Nowra, died on Thursday last, aged 70 years, leaving two sons and two daughters. She…

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Telegraphic News. Mr. Barton to Leave for Home. £200 Compensation. More Plague. Reported Disaster to Australians. Mr. Deakin Also Returns. the City Railway. the Queensland Contingents. the V.R.C. Mining Fatality. Plague in Brisbane. the Governor's Speech. Federation in West Australia. Heavy Gale. Fish Poisoning. Mr. See in Defence of the Government. Great Reception. Sydney

Southern Star · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 2

Mr. Barton has cabled to the effect that he will leave London at the end of June. Mrs. Annie Mitchell, of Whitton…

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Telegraphic News. Plague Cases. Tattersall's Sweeps. the Protectionist Party. Bathurst Election. Plague in New Zealand. Flood in the Murray. the Unemployed. the Tick Pest. the Darling Navigable. Feting the Invalids. Donald Wallace's Will. Alarm in Melbourne. Racing Matters. Disabled Ship. Sydney

Southern Star · Wednesday 27 June 1900 · page 2

Two cases of plague were reported yesterday, the victims being William Lyon, aged 20, residing at Woollahra, and Walter Heckworthy, residing at…

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The Flood. Rapid Rise of the Shoalhaven. Overflows at Terara, Numba, and Bolong

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

The strong south east gale which set in on Tuesday night, accompanied by heavy rain, continuing over Wednesday and Thursday, with scarcely any…

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A Great Storm

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

November has for ages been popularly credited with being the most stormy month the year on the coasts of North Western Europe. To our Saxon forefathers it was…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Southern Star · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 4

IF you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Southern Star · Wednesday 18 July 1900 · page 4

IF you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Southern Star · Wednesday 25 July 1900 · page 4
Also in The Nowra Colonist

IF you ever watched it dentist draw a nerve out of it tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a…

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A Long Nervous Storm

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 July 1900 · page 4

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember much it looked like n little snip of wot, white cotton thread. How can so…

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The Storm Cloud

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1900 · page 2

There are signs that a critical situation is rapidly maturing, when the allies will [?]it into two camps. A good deal depends on how quickly the Russian and…

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A [?] Storm

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 1 August 1900 · page 4

If you ever watched a dentist draw a serve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so…

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A Long Nervous Storm

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 3
Also in The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a thing inflict such a mountain of…

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A Long Nervous Storm

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 8 August 1900 · page 4

If you ever watched a dentist draw a out of a tooth you will remember how much it looked like a little [?] of [?] white cotton thread How [?]…

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The Safest Place In a Thunderstorm

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 5 September 1900 · page 4

As a general rule avoid sheltering under trees when overtaken by a thunderstorm' out In the country, Rather put up with a drenching than run the…

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Grassy Gully Litigation. Alleged Damage by Flooding

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 28 November 1900 · page 2

In the Banco Court, on Tuesday, 20th inst., Mr. Justice Stephen and Mr. Justice Cohen had before them in the case of John Hanson v. the Grassy Gully Gold-mining…

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