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Floods & storms, 1910

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Floods in France. Relief for Sufferers Loans Without Interest. London, Feb. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 7

The Bank of France is to advance £4,000,000 free of interest, repayable in five years, for grants to sufferers by the flood. The Government proposes to issue…

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After the Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 5

NARRABRI, Monday.--At a muster of cattle lost during the flood which took place on Milchengowrie, one owner recovered 357 bullocks out of 437 lost, while another owner recovered…

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The Paris Floods. Help for Sufferers. Loans Free of Interest

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Bank of France is advancing £4,000,000 free of interest, repayable in. five years, for grants to flood sufferers…

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Culwulla Iii. Safe. Arrives at Hobart. Many Gales and Big Seas. Hobart

The Star · Wednesday 16 February 1910 · page 6

Culwulla III. has arrived safely from Sydney. Mr. Walter Murks and his crow report having experienced a very trying time. When a couple of days out a southerly gale…

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The Recent Floods. Damage in Moree District

Evening News · Wednesday 16 February 1910 · page 3

The extent of the damage done to roads and streets and the extra expenditure imposed on the Moree Municipality and the two adjoining shires—Boomi and Boolooroo—formed the…

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Exposed to Terrific Gale. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 7

The steamer Devonshire was exposed to the terrific give in which the Waratah is supposed to have been lost, and to-day the Devonshire arrived with a cargo comprising 4400…

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Sensational Voyage. Steamer in Cyclone. Accident to Engineer. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 6

The steamer Merrie England, belonging to the Papua Government, on its recent voyage to Queensland met with a sensational experience, which is best related in the words of…

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A Queensland Gale. Steamer Roughly Handled. Oil on the Waters

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A report which has reached the External Affairs Department of the voyage of the steamer, Merrie England, belonging to the Papuan Government, on its…

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Storm in the Persian Gulf. 200 Lives Lost

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.--The "Russ," of St. Petersburg, states that two local passenger steamers and a cargo boat have been wrecked during a storm in the Persian Gulf…

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Seine Again Rises. Paris Suburbs Flooded. London, Feb. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 7

An alarming rise has taken place in the Seine owing to a torrential rainstorm in the Haute-Marne district. The rise has caused a renewal of the floods in the suburbs of…

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Alarming Rise in the Seine. Renewal of Floods in Paris

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.--There was an alarming rise in the Seine, and a renewal of the floods in some of the suburbs of Paris, yesterday…

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The Brewarrina Cyclone

The Star · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 6

During the recent cyclone at Browarrina the Anglican Church suffered severely. A special restoration fund has been opened at the local brunch of the Bank of New South…

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Floods Relief Fund. Liverpool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 10

A grand concert arranged through the efforts of the Major (Alderman Webstor) with the co-operation of the Liverpool District Cricket Club, was held in the Town Hall…

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The Recent Floods. Relief Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 9

The executive committee of the New South Wales Public Disaster Relief Fund beg to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of the following contributions towards alleviating the…

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New York Storm Freak. Five Hundred Broken Limbs

Evening News · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 11

Instead of the predicted blizzard, the eastern States of America were visited on the evening of January 5 by a "storm freak." which coated all the cities with a quarter of an inch…

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WRIT Of the Flood of Youth. a Vilanelle

Evening News · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 14

Those verses writ in the flood of youth Before the heart knew a touch of guile, They fling asunder the gates of truth. What though they hobble with rhyme uncouth…

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Floods Distress Concert

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 6

On Wednesday evening, the Town Hall, Liverpool, was well tilled with a highly appreciative audience, when a very attractive programme of songs…

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Two Hundred Lost in Storm

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 12

The "Russ," of St. Petersburg, states that two local passenger steamers and a cargo boat have been wrecked in the Persian Gulf in a storm, and that 200 lives were lost…

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"End of All Things Approaching." Gen. Booth Suggests a Deluge Op Fire. London, January 10

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 20

General Booth drew a lurid picture of a possibly imminent cataclysm in his address at the Congress Hall, Clapton, last night…

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Floods in France

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 12

The Bank of France is to advance £4,000,000 free of interest, repayable in five years, for grants to sufferers by the flood. The Government proposes to issue to small tradesmen loans not…

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