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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1909

7 stories in South Coast's papers

A Tropical Storm

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 1

Mr Murdo M'Kenzie, who is managing a station in Central Queensland, writing to his father. Mr H. M'Kenzie, J.P., of Terara, thus describes his experience of a tropical…

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A Queensland Storm. the Darkie's Prescience

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 8

Young Murdo M'Kenzie, son of Mr. Hugh M'Kenzie, of Terara, in a letter to his father, describes a recent storm which occurred up in Central…

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Gale in New York. Ladies Fare Badly

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 3

A sixty-mile gale struck New York this morning, and for a few hours made walking dangerous throughout the city (cabled the "Daily Telegraph's" New…

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100 up in a Gale

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 4 June 1909 · page 8

Billiards on board ship ! That is the latest innovation—and a popular innovation it is likely to turn out. The experiment, it is true, has…

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Teapot Storm over Tourist Road

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 4

For access to the Lookout at Gooddog, Cambewarra Mountain, a short route with a grade of 1 in 8 3/4 was approved by the Cambewarra Shire…

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Our Sydney Letter. Sydney, September 28th, 1909. Storms— Magnetic and Other

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 1

The splendid auroral displays on Saturday night set every one talking, each according to his, or her, own idiosyn[?]racy. Something unprecedented and out…

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Struck the Rocks. Narrow Escape of the Eden. Strikes Cape St. George. Now Badly Smashed. Forepeak Flooded. Saved by the Bulkhead

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 4

The Illawarra S. N. Company’s well-known coastal steamer Eden arrived in p[?] last evening with her how badly smashed and bearing other…

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