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Floods & storms, 1911

1,348 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 68

Unprecedented Storm in Canada. Winnipeg. Friday Afternoon

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 May 1911 · page 7

Telegraphic communication is seriously damaged by a heavy sleet and rain storm. There has been an unprecedented precipitation, and rain followed by hail, snow…

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The Schooner Rosamond in the Gale

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 15 May 1911 · page 4

The American four-masted schooner Rosamond which left Gray's Harbor on the 12th March for Sydney, with 1,000,000ft. of lumber, arrived in port…

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Schooner in a Gale. Swept by Seas. Part Op Deckload Lost

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 May 1911 · page 8

The full force of the southerly gale which swept along the coast on Thursday and Friday was met by the American, schooner Rosamond, laden with timber from Gray's' Harbor,and she…

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Flooding the Labor Market. Charge Against W.a. Government

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 May 1911 · page 7

PERTH, Sunday.--The Metropolitan Labor Council yesterday passed a motion that it is alarmed by the Government inducing immigrants to come to the State with a guarantee…

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The Schooner Rosamond in the Gale

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 16 May 1911 · page 15

The American four-masted schooner Rosamond which left Gray's Harbor on the 12th March for Sydney, with 1,000,000ft. of lumber, arrived in port…

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Caught in the Storm. Narrabeen Fisherman' Missing

The Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1911 · page 2

A Narrabeen fisherman named Michael Murphy has been missing since Friday morning last. About 5 o'clock on that date Murphy left Long Reef in a 16ft. skiff to go…

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Caught in a Storm. a Missing Fisherman

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 May 1911 · page 8

Michael Murphy (35), left Long Reef, Narrabeen, in a boat at 5 a.m. on Friday last, and in company with Charles Hirsch and Henry Gonzales, who were, in another boat, went on a…

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The Telephone Chaos. a Deluge of Complaints. Edgecliff and Blue Mountains Mixed. Switchboard That Is an Annoyance

The Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1911 · page 7

The Postmaster-General's invitation to all and sundry to come and fight out the question of the telephone muddle face to face with him at the Town Hall was responded to with…

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Good Out of Evil. Buenos Ayres Again Flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 May 1911 · page 7

BUENOS AYRES (Argentina). Monday.--The lower town in again flooded. The rains have been of incalculable benefit to the agricultural districts…

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Heavy Rain on North Coast. 121 Points at Woolgoolga

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 10

Light to heavy rain has fallen on the north coast, and light showers on the northern tablelands. Woolgoolga had 121 points, Clarence 59,…

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Black Sea Storm

Globe · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 2

Q.—I want to know if you can oblige me with the date of a great storm at Balaclava, in the Black Sea. I was in it in 54; I was in Balaclava Harbor on November 5 when Inkerman was…

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A Flood of Questions. Parliamentarians Who "Want to Know."

Evening News · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 4

The business paper of Parliament is already well stocked with questions to Ministers Seeing that but one day has an far been availing to prepare questions, a good w[?] has…

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Sensational Flights. Aviators Caught in Wind Storm. Speed of Over 100 Miles an Hour. Paris

The Sun · Thursday 18 May 1911 · page 1

Two remarkable monoplane flights' were witnessed in Rheims, yesterday. Mr. Henry Weyman, with Count Roblliard as a passenger, was caught in a storm during…

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Floods in New Zealand. Great Rain in Poverty Bay

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 13

WELLINGTON, Thursday.--Torrential rains have been experienced in the Poverty Bay district. The rivers rose rapidly yesterday, and late last night it was feared that the Gisborne…

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Floods Subsiding. in Gisborne and Napier Districts

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 15

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday. -- The floods are subsiding in the Gisborne and Napier districts. A cessation of rain, just when the rivers were threatening inundation, averted disaster…

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Wrecked. by Storm. Damage in New Guinea. Dr. Sharp and Mission Work

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 May 1911 · page 6

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Rev. Dr. Sharp. Anglican Bishop of Now Guinea, In the course of a, conversation this morning with a representative of "The Daily Telegraph. said he was on a…

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New Zealand. Floods in Gisborne District. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 May 1911 · page 10

Heavy rain caused floods in the Napier and Gisborne districts on Thursday. The rivers rose rapidly, and caused great anxiety in Gisborne…

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Antarctic Disturbance. Light to Heavy Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 8

Light to heavy rain has fallen south of the Lachlan, and light on the central tableland and at a few places on the North Coast. This unsettled weather was due to the presence over…

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The Colliery Unrest. a District Vote. the Storm Centre

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--A good deal is being made of the fact that a district vote is in progress among the colliery employees on the question of whether or not the men on strike…

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