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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1900

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Mitigation of Floods in the Hawkesbury

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 8

LIVERPOOL, Monday:--At the last meeting of the Liverpool Council, a letter was received from the Richmond Council expressing regret that the council had declined to attend a conference at…

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Divorce Court. Gale V. Gale

The Australian Star · Thursday 30 August 1900 · page 5

Annie Elizabeth Gale (formerly Saffron), who was represented by Mr. Boys, appeared before Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson this morning and petitioned for divorce from Ambrose…

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Doings in Divorce. Gale v. GALE

Evening News · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 6

Mr. Justice Simpson yesterday continued the hearing of causes. In the suit brought by Annie Elizabeth Gale, formerly Saffron, for a divorce from Ambrose Gale, drunkenness, non-support…

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Divorce Court. (Before Mr. Justice Simpson.) GALE v. GALE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 3

Mr. F. S. Boys appeared for the petitioner, A[?] Elizabeth Gale; there was no appearance on behalf of the respondent, Ambrose Gale. The petitioner alleged drunkenness, cruelly, and failure to support…

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Divorce Court. (Before Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson.) GALE V. GALE

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 3

Mr. Boys appeared for the petitioner, Annie Elizabeth Gale, formerly Saffron, who asked for a divorce from Ambrose Gale, on the grounds of drunkenness, non-support, and cruelty…

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Cyclone at Mafeking. More Damaging Than Boer Shells

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- A cyclone passing over Mafeking has done enormous damage. It levelled tile British camp to the ground, and patients in the Held hospital had to be…

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Cyclone at Mafeking. London, August 31, 5.30 a.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 5

A cyclone at Mafeking did enormous damage. The tents were all blown down by the violence of the wind, and the patients who were in camp had to be transferred in…

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Island Trip of the Moressy. Hove-to in a Heavy Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 10

Captain John Williams, in command of Messrs, Burns, Philp, and Co.'s steamer Moresby, anchored in Watson's Bay at an early hour. The captain's report states that the vessel left Sydney on the morning of July 20. Fins…

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The Boer War. Buller Beats the Enemy After Some Hot Fighting. a Traitor Executed—Boers Murder the Wounded—Prisoners Released. Burghers Fleeing to Europe. Cyclone at Hoicking

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 September 1900 · page 8

It is reported at Delagoa Bay that the British have occupied Waterval Boven, seven miles east of Machadodorp and Waterval Onder, give miles further on…

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The Cyclone at Mafeking

Evening News · Monday 3 September 1900 · page 5

LONDON, September 2, noon.—The recent tornado at Mafeking wrecked most of the buildings of the Mafeking Field Hospital, containing 150 patients…

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The Cyclone at Mafeking. London, Sept. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 September 1900 · page 7

The recent cyclone at Mafeking wrecked most of the buildings which comprise the Mafeking Field Hospital, containing 150 patients…

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Cyclone at Mafeking. Loss of Life and Property. LONDON, September 2, 12.5 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 3 September 1900 · page 4

The recent cyclone at Mafeking wrecked most of the buildings which comprise the Mafeking Field Hospital, containing 150 patients…

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General News. the Cyclone at Mafeking. London, Sept. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 September 1900 · page 5

The recent cyclone at Mafeking wrecked most of the buildings which comprise the Mafeking Field Hospital, containing 150 patients…

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Churchill-west Marriage. Crowds Storm the Church. The Bride's Youthful Appearance

The Australian Star · Tuesday 4 September 1900 · page 2

The marriage of Lady Randolph Churchill to Lieutenant George Cornwallis West on July 28, was a fashionable ceremony. The bridegroom is about the age of the bride's…

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Dismasted in a Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 September 1900 · page 6

The German barque V. G, Pfluger, bound from S[?]n Fransisco to Queenstown with wheat, put into Santa Barbara on the 17th ultimo, dismasted. The vessel, which is in charge of Captain C. L. Hoever, was towed into port…

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Thunderstorms and Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 September 1900 · page 4

Another change is approaching from West Australia. Mr. Russell stated last evening that the disturbance would affect the far western districts of this colony to-day in the form of…

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The Cyclone at Mafeking

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 14

LONDON, September 2, noon.—The recent tornado at Mafeking wrecked most of the buildings of the Mafeking Field Hospital, containing 150 patients…

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Mafeking Damaged by a Cyclone

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 September 1900 · page 8

The recent cyclone at Mafeking wrecked most of the buildings which comprise the Mafeking Field Hospital, containing 150 patients…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 September 1900 · page 8

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much is looked like a little ship or wet, white cotton thread. Flow can so…

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Dust Storms

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 19

Among the unpleasant experiences which have fallen to the lot of our soldiers in South Africa during the course of the present campaign, have been encounters with dust storms. These…

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