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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1912

1,269 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 64

Our Cricketers. Wet Time in England. Flood at Norwich. Bardsley's Run Out in the Test

Evening News · Wednesday 2 October 1912 · page 3

LONDON, August 30—At the conclusion of the test match, the Australians went to Cardiff to fulfil a fixture which had been provisionally arranged for three days. As it was it was…

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Gaol-made Cloth. Bought by Railway Commissioner. Flood of Imports. Local Industry Strangled

Evening News · Wednesday 2 October 1912 · page 4

"The local industry is a bagatelle is a comparison with the imports" J. Vicars woolen manufacturer, of Marrickvillie told the Textile Workers Wages Board, in giving evidence is…

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Late Cable News. Received To-day. War floods Lower, the Troubled Balkans. Servian Military Activity

Evening News · Wednesday 2 October 1912 · page 10

BELGRADE, Tuesday— The railway statics are crowded with men journeying to lots the colors. The city is intensely excited immense…

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Comet 1912A (Gale). to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 4

Sir,--I append a short ophemeris of this comet, prepared from my provisional orbit elements. The accuracy of these elements is illustrated by a comparison of an observation…

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Storms in Portugal. Many People Killed. London, Wednesday. 11.55 p.m

The Sun · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 8

Violent storms have swept over Portugal, and great damage has been done to shipping and to agriculture. The country is inundated and many people…

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Is Tte Storm Bursting? Turks Fire on Servian Town. Belgrade, Oct. 2, 3.15 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 9

The Ministry of War has Just announced that a body of Turks fired on Raska, a town on the southern frontier of Servia, eleven and a half miles north-east of Novi Bazar, and…

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Flooded Tramline. Dispute with Railway Commissioners. Vaucluse Council Will Sue

Evening News · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 14

A dispute concerning a claim for a few pounds has occurred between the Railway Department and the Vaucluse Municipal Council. Over eighteen months ago the latter body…

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East Anglian Floods. Farm Land Submerged. London, Wednesday, 11.15 p.m

The Sun · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 8

Renewed floods have been caused in East Anglia through the rivers overflowing, and many acres are submerged. A railway viaduct has been washed away…

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A Storm Brewing

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 9

"I say," said the Cop., as he hold up the belated cyclist, "where's your light?" "Oh," was the reply, the wind blow…

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On the Frontier. Affairs of Outposts. Turco--bulgarian Conflicts. the Brewing Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 9

CONSTANTINOPLE, Thursday.--A fusillade of outposts was maintained during the whole of Tuesday night near Mustapha, on the Turco-Bulgarian border between Adrianople and…

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Conditions at 9 A.m. Yesterday. Hot and Oppressive. Storm in the City

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 13

After some days of warm, close weather, each of which was of decided thundery character, a thunderstorm developed in Sydney. It was very indefinite at first, but as night set in…

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Thunderstorms. Over Most of the State. Singular Absence of Rainfall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 10

After some dass of warm close weather each of which was of decided thundery charactor a thunderstorm developed in Sydney yesterday. It was very indefinite at first, but…

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Storm at Bathurst. Bathurst

The Sun · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 6

Heavy rain, accompanied by strong wind, vivid, lightning, and heavy thunder, fell in Bathurst yesterday afternoon. The wind wrought considerable havoc amongst the…

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Gale at Katoomba

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 October 1912 · page 9

KATCOMEA, Saturday.--A severe thunder and windstorm passed over the town yesterday, leaving in its wake extensive damage to property and fruit trees…

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Storm at Clifton

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 October 1912 · page 15

CLIFTON, Saturday.--One of the heaviest northerly gales over experienced here raged from about 7 o'clock on Thursday night until 3 p.m. Friday. Much damage was done. Houses were…

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Gale's Comet. Visible in England. London, Monday, 11.30 p.m

The Sun · Tuesday 8 October 1912 · page 9

Gale's comet is now visible in England with a telescope. Its brightness is decreasing…

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Captain's Worst Experience Barque in Cyclone

Evening News · Thursday 10 October 1912 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The Russian bar[?], Professor Koch, which left Rio Janeiro on August 6, arrived here this morning. Captain Jansen states that when 14 days out, and near…

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Warlike Bulgaria. the Growth of a Little Kingdom. the "Storm Centre."

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 October 1912 · page 7

Bulgaria's warlike mood ia more interesting when we remember that 25 years ago Bulgaria was nothing—a vague Balkan State, very little larger than Ireland,…

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Barque in a Gale. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 October 1912 · page 10

When the Russian barque, Professor Koch, had been 14 days out from [?] de Janciro, and was near the island of Tristan da Cunha, she encountered a cyclone. The wind was terrific, and carried away half of the…

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The Floods in East Central England-- the Swollen Ouse Washing Over Its Banks

The Sun · Friday 11 October 1912 · page 4

The rainfall in East Central England was of quite exceptional violence at the end of August. Like the rest of the kingdom the land had absorbed as much water as it could, and the additional rainfall necessarily resulted in floods of vast extent. The Great Northern Railway and Great Eastern Railway were affected at several points. The above view shows the devastation which has been caused in the district of the Huntingdonshire Ouse. The immediate district shown is near St. Neots…

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