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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1895

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Storm at Glen Innes. Heavy Fall of Hail. Great Damage to Crops

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 5

GLEN INNES, Friday.—Yesterday Red Range was visited by the heaviest hailstorm ever experienced in the district. It lasted three quarters of an hour, and…

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Country News. (From Our Correspondents.) Troposed Pitt Town Floodgates. Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 5

A large number of farmers and landholders met at Pitt Town yesterday for the purpose of discussing the advisability of constructing floodgates along South Creek, thus shutting out small…

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Storm at Armidale. Very Large Hailstones

Evening News · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 5

ARMIDALE, Friday.—One of the most terrific hailstorm ever experienced in this district occurred on Thursday evening. Every shop in town was more or less damaged,…

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Storm at Glen Innes. [Some of the Following Items Appeared in Our Late Editions of Yesterday.] Heavy Fall of Hail. Great Damage to Crops

Evening News · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 5

GLEN INNES, Friday.—Yesterday Red Range was visited by the heaviest hailstorm ever experienced in the district. It lasted three quarters of an hour, and…

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Repair of Damage by Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 10

Yesterday morning Mr. H. H. Brown, M.L.A., introduced a deputation representing the residents of Woodville to the Minister for Works to ask the department to repair the local dam on Albion Creek,…

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The Hunter River Flood Protection Scheme

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 37

Mr. Darley, the Engineer-in-Chief for Harbors and Rivers, has forwarded to the Minister for Works a report by Mr. H. Walsh, Newcastle district engineer, and…

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Political. What May Happen the Council. a Young Brigade to Storm the Ancient Citadel

Sunday Times · Sunday 10 March 1895 · page 5

THE Government are "laying for" the Council. They will let the elderly legislators go ahead mincing the Land Bill and chewing up other more or less important…

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Grounding of the Oroya. the Gale Moderating. Cargo Being Unloaded. London, March 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 March 1895 · page 5

Better news has been received from Naples as to the prospects of saving the Orient's R.M.S. Oroya. The heavy gale that has been blowing in the Bay of…

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Terrible Storm at Sea. Forty Vessels Wrecked. Sea Rises Ninety Feet

Evening News · Tuesday 12 March 1895 · page 5

LONDON, March 12.—A terrible storm has occurred in the Mediterranean. At Tangier, the chief port of…

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The Colorado, From Vancouver. Heavy Gales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 6

The American barque Colorado, 1036 tons, Captain [?] E. Jones, from Burrard's Inlet and Vancouver, arrived with a cargo of timber last night, and anchored at Watson's Bay at 9.30 p.m. The captain reports that very…

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Terrible Storm at Sea. Forty Vessels Wrecked. Sea Rises Ninety Feet

Evening News · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 4

LONDON, March 12.—A terrible storm has occurred in the Mediterranean. At Tangier, the chief port of…

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Special Cables. From the Herald's London Correspondents. Great Storm in the Mediterranean. Forty Vessels Wrecked. London, March 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 5

A terrific storm has occurred in the Mediterranean, sweeping the coast of Morocco. At Tangier the sea rose to a height of 90 feet…

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The R.m.s. Oroya. the Forehold Flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--News from tho Bay of Naples states that, it has been found necessary to flood the forehold of the R.M.S. Oroya, which…

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The Oroya. Heavy Gale at Naples

Evening News · Thursday 14 March 1895 · page 4

LONDON, March 13.—A heavy gale has been blowing for some time in the Bay of Naples, necessitating the suspension of work in connection with…

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Accident at a Storm Water Sewer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 March 1895 · page 6

An accident, resulting in injuries being received by two men employed on the work occurred on Tuesday at the stormwater sewer in course of construction at…

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South Australia. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Heavy Floods in the Northern Territory. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 March 1895 · page 5

Sir Charles Todd has received a telegram from the stationmaster at Port Darwin stating that heavy floods have occurred at Powell's Creek. The rainfall at Alexandria station during January…

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The Gales in the Mediterranean. Supposed Loss of a Spanish Man-of-war. London, March 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 5

A quantity of wreckage has been washed ashore at Tarifa, a port on the south coast of Spain, near Gibraltar, and has been recognised as belonging to the…

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News by Cable. Mediterranean Gales. Loss of a Spanish Warship

Evening News · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 4

LONDON, March 15.—It is believed that the Spanish warship Reina Regente, which is supposed to have been lost during the late heavy gales…

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Storm in the Mediterranean. Forty Vessels Wrecked. London, March 12

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 534

A terrific storm has occurred in the Mediterranean, sweeping the coast of Morocco. At Tangier the sea rose to a height of 90 feet…

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Special Cables. From the Herald's London Correspondents. the Gales in the Mediterranean. Supposed Loss of a Spanish Warship. London, March 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 10

It is believed that the Spanish warship Reina Regente, which was supposed to have been lost during the late heavy gales in the Mediterranean, is ashore at…

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