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Floods & storms, 1895

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In Queensland. the Rivers Still in Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1895 · page 6

BRISBANE, Monday.--The Brisbane River is now subsiding, and all danger of a flood is past, though more rain is threatening to-night…

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The Weather. the Floods in the Maitland District

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1895 · page 6

The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Brunker, returned to town from Maitland yesterday morning, and states that on Saturday he visited the flooded localities in the…

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The Floods. in the Bingara District. One Man Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1895 · page 5

BINGARA, Tuesday.--The weather is now fine. Reports confirm the excessive rainfall during Saturday and Sunday; the principal losses being in fencing washed…

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A Flood Feared. Heavy Rain at Lismore. LISMORE

The Australian Star · Thursday 31 January 1895 · page 5

It has been raining here the last fortnight without a break. The river is up 14ft. and rising rapidly. A big flood is anticipated. Business for the last week has been totally…

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Southerly Gale

The Australian Star · Thursday 31 January 1895 · page 6

In last night's STAR Mr. Clement Wragge, the Queensland Meteorologist, predicted another spell of stormy weather, which would extend to the northern coasts of New…

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In the Clarence River District. the Gale at Maclean

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1895 · page 5

MACLEAN, Wednesday.--Bad weather has again set in. The southerly wind of the past few days has blown up more rain, which commenced to fall rather heavily…

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The Weather. a Gale on the Coast. Prospect of Rain and Squalls

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1895 · page 5

More rain fell on tile highlands and the coast yesterday, and a strong south-easterly gale was blowing in tile north with a rough sea. Four points of rain were…

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Northern Items. Storm at Kempsey. Heavy Seas and Rains. a Schooner in Danger

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1895 · page 5

KEMPSEY, January 31.-Heavy weather continues with strong seas along the coast. A south-east gale blew violently during Wednesday afternoon and all…

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The Tweed Rising.--a Flood Feared

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1895 · page 5

LISMORE, Wednesday.--Heavy rain has fallen since last night. and there is again a prosper of a flood. The river is rising rapidly. The total rainfall for January is 18in…

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Rains at Lismore. the Residents Alarmed. Another Flood Expected

Evening News · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 5

LISMORE, February 1.-Heavy rain fell throughout Thursday, accompanied by strong squalls from the south-east. The river has risen at the rate of four inches…

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Prevention of Floods on the Clarence. to the Tditor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 6

Sir,—Having perused your outline of Mr. H. Archibald's scheme of proventing the flooding of the Clarence, in your publication dated 18th instant, permit me to say there is nothing very difficult in the…

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Pitt Town Floodgates. (From Our Correspondent.) Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 5

Mr. W. Morgan, M.L.A., has received a lengthy report from a Government officer who inspected the Hawkesbury River and South Creek for the purpose of determining as to the practicability and…

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The Richmond Flooded. a Further Rise Expected. Lismore in Danger. Residents Removing--Storekeepers Packing Up--Getting Out of the Reach of the Flood. LISMORE

The Australian Star · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 6

The Richmond River is up 25ft., and is rising rapidly. Numbers of people are shifting to safe positions, and storekeepers are engaged packing up their goods and…

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The Weather and the Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 6

Showers fell in Sydney yesterday, and a stiff southerly breeze was blowing, the weather being cool enough for early winter. The rough sea outside delayed many…

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Fears of a Flood at Lismore. Business People on the Alert

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 6

LISMORE, Thursday.--The rainfall for the past 24 hours has been 3.52 points. The river is up 26ft., and still rising, and if it gets 8ft. higher it will be in the business…

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The Floods at Bingara. a Relief Fund Started

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 6

BINGARA, Thursday.--At a well-attended public meeting last night, a flood relief fund was opened for the families who were rendered destitute by the recent floods…

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Essayist Remarkable Hail-storms

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 10

The damage done by hail in England is very triffing compared with the ruin it some times works in other countries. To our insular climate, which is free from extremes of…

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The Gale at the Clarence

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 6

MACLEAN, Friday.--The North Coast S.N. Company's steamer City of Grafton was berthed at the wharf to-day, being unable to cross out owing to the [?] and…

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The Storm-water Drain

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 4

On the 24th ult. Messrs. Davis and Smith paid a visit to Parramatta for the purpose of inspecting the storm-water drain. We are credibly informed that the work of extending…

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The Schooner Victoria in the Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 6

KEMPSEY, Friday.--The schooner Victoria, which was anchored in Trial Bay near the ill-fated Margaret Jane, was seen yesterday to be laboring heavily, the seas…

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