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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1903

987 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 50

A Mine Flooded

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 30 September 1903 · page 18

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday Afternoon.—Messrs. William Laidley and Company's Co-operative [?] at Wallsend has been seriously flooded, causing heavy loss to the mine, throwing 74…

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The Warrimoo. Slowed Down in a Heavy Gale

The Australian Star · Thursday 1 October 1903 · page 2

On her outward trip from Sydney to Wellington the steamer Warrimoo was much behind time. Speculation was rife as to what had delayed her. However, all anxiety was…

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Flood Gates on Cook's River

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 October 1903 · page 4

Mr. Mackenzie, M.L.A., together with several of the employees engaged at a tannery situated on the banks of Cook's River waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday with…

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Flood Gates at Sans Souci

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 October 1903 · page 4

Mr. Mackenzie, M.L.A., in the unavoidable absence of Mr. Carruthers, M.L.A., yesterday, introduced a deputation to the Minister for Works, from the Rockdale Municipal Council,…

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Flood Gates

The Australian Star · Thursday 1 October 1903 · page 6

A deputation representing Rockdale Council was introduced to Mr. O'Sullivan yesterday by Mr. Mackenzie, M.L.A., in the absence of Mr. Carruthers. They wanted some…

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The Hunter Flood

Evening News · Friday 2 October 1903 · page 5

RAYMOND TERRACE, Friday.-The river has gone down to the usual level, and the punts have again commenced running. Much damage has been done to dairy feed in the district…

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Gales on the Coast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 October 1903 · page 11

Heavy weather was experienced, especially along the northern part of the coast, yesterday, Captain Pain, the master of the Peregrine, states that a strong southerly gale, accompanied by a high sea, was…

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Heavy Storm at Singleton

Evening News · Saturday 3 October 1903 · page 6

SINGLETON. Friday.-About 5 p.m. yesterday, a storm of unusual force broke over Singleton, and rain fell in torrents. As the storm approached, lightning flashes and distant thunder…

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Destructive Hail. Orchards Badly Cut Up. The Storm at castle Hill

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 3 October 1903 · page 4

Tuesday's hailstorm did considerable damage to some of the orchards in Castle Hill, and, strange to say, followed a strip whore it wrought such have last year…

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The Hunter Flood

Evening News · Saturday 3 October 1903 · page 6

RAYMOND TERRACE. Friday.-The river has gone down to the usual level, and the pants have again commenced running. Much damage has been done to dairy feed in the district…

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Getting Electricity Out of the Storm

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 October 1903 · page 3

In every storm of wind there is lost an incalculable amount of power. The thrifty Germans for over two years have used windmiils to generate electricity. One such…

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Flood at Wee Waa. Wee Waa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 October 1903 · page 5

The police are busy warning people residing on the lowlying places round the town to take precautions,as the river is higher now than has been known to be the case for years. Booboo darm broke yesterday, the waters flowing…

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The Cyclone's Little Joke

The World's News · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 19

Mr. Elbert A. Howard, of Neola, Iowa (U.S.A.), sends to the "Strand Magazine" the photo, of a cyclone freak, from which our sketch is made. The two brooms shown in the picture…

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A Little Storm

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 4

At the Parramatta Benevelent Society meeting on Wednesday evening, the secretary in his report stated that a member of the visiting committee had been interfered with in her…

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Deluge in New York Thirty Hours' Rain. Floods in England. London, October 10

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 October 1903 · page 5

It rained for 30 hours in New York, during which time 9 9-10 inches fell. Portions of the New York central railway line and goods yards were submerged to a…

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A Storm of Kisses. New York's Welcome to Lipton. Golden Shamrocks for the Girls

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 11 October 1903 · page 5

When the curtain fell on the last act of "The Wizard of On" at the Majestic. Theatre in New York a few nights previous to the first of the yacht races Sir Thomas Lipton…

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Shoot 'Em Shekels Smith. As an Empire Emancipator. He Tells the "Hempire" Leaguers How to Save the Empire. This is to be Dose by Flooding Australia with Colored Labor. Shekels Smith's Son ful Solicitude for Hindoos and Japs

Truth · Sunday 11 October 1903 · page 5

Thank God there is a "Hempire League in Australia! Heaven only knows what we should do to protect the "Hempire," and Heaven alone knows, also, what the…

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Rain in the Northern Hemisphere. Floods in New York. London, Oct. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 October 1903 · page 7

Rain has fallen continuously in New York for 30 hours, the total fall amounting to 9.9 inches. Portions of the New York Central Railway…

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The Tyneside Flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 October 1903 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.--As in America, the north of England also has been visited by very heavy rain. As a result of the continuous and heavy falls,…

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The Queanbeyan Tragedy. Gale on Trial

Evening News · Tuesday 13 October 1903 · page 3

GOULBURN, Monday.-The Quarter Sessions opened to-day before Mr. Justice Pring. Charles Augustus Gale was charged with the murder of his wife, Susan Gale, at Queanbeyan, on August…

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