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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1923

1,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 59

Cyclonic Storm Shipping Warned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 6

A cyclonic storm has developed off the coast, between New Caledonia. Lord Howe Island, and the north end of New Zealand, and shipping has…

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Dangerous Cyclone. Warning by Weather Bureau

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 4

Yesterday a special warning shipping was issued by the Weather Bureau, which read:— A dangerous cyclone has come into…

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Gales in England. Wrecks Reported. London, Feb. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 9

Gales blowing at 70 miles an hour are raging [?] many districts in Great Britain. Even the [?]ard liner Berengaria, is storm-bound off the isle of Wight. A number of wrecks are…

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Scared Coolies Wonganella in a Storm Chinese Going Home

Evening News · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 6

With a hundred and twenty fear stricken coolies below the hatches, the steamer Wonganella struggled through a fierce storm…

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Storms of Life Drink and Class Struggle Duty of Church Perth

The Sun · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 11

The twenty-fourth annual conference of the Methodist Church of West Australia opened yesterday, when the retiring president (Rev. G. McLaren)…

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Caught in a Cyclone

Evening News · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 9

S.S Rona, which arrived in Sydney Harbor to-day, after turous run from Suva…

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Suva in a Cyclone Rough Experience

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 4

Caught in a cyclonic storm on the voyage front Fiji to Sydney, the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Suva, which arrived here yesterday, had a…

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Rona Again Another Narrow Escape Damaged by Cyclone

The Sun · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 8

Misfortune continues to dog the steamer Ron. Only recently she grounded within a stone's throw of a lighthouse, and was refloated with difficulty…

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In a Cyclone Rona Badly Battered Two Days' Peril

Evening News · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 9

When the Rona could no longer run before the hurricane, she hore to for two days, head to the storm, her engines hardly morning…

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Terrific Gales Fire On a Ship Dynamite in the Hold LONDON, March 1

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 5

The steamer Banffshire, hound for Sydney, encountered a terrific hurricane in the Bristol Channel, and during tho height of the storm a fire broke…

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Storm at Maitland Horse Struck by Lightning

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 March 1923 · page 2

WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.—A heavy thunderstorm broke over the town last evening, and an inch of rain resulted. The fall was the best for some…

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Beta Ceti. Mr. Gale's Observations. No Increase in Brightness

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 9

The president of the New South Wales branch of the British Astronomical Association (Mr. W. F. Gale), referring last night to the reported [?]udden increase in the…

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In Great Storm Steamer Hollywood Damage at Honolulu

Evening News · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 7

Mountainous seas flooded the American steamer Hollywood fore and aft, as she ran before a hurricane on her trip from San…

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'Phone Scramble Deluge of Applications Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 4

The Postmaster-General, Mr. Gibson, slates that his department is being deluged with applications for new telephones, at the rate of 2500 a…

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Cyclone at New Hebrides Plantations Damaged

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 4

Officers of the F.M.S. Pacifique. which arrived here yesterday from the New Hebrides, and Noumea, state that New Caledonia escaped the big cyclone which…

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Cyclonic Storm Raging at Apia Suva Threatened Suva

The Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1923 · page 3

A cyclonic storm is raging at Apia (Samoa), and is reported to be travelling towards Fiji. It is due at Suva on Friday…

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Storm at Apia. Suva

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 6

A storm is raging at Apia, and telephonic communication between the wireless station and the observatory is out of action…

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Storm Raging at Apia Suva, March 7

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 7

A storm is raging at Apia. Telephone communication between the wireless station and the observatory is out of action. No further details…

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Killed by Lightning Storm at Ny[?]gan NYNGAN

The Sun · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 7

A young man, Arthur Teale, was struck dead by lightning yesterday evening about four miles from Moo[?]goo Station. The unfortunate man…

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A Black Wall Dust-storm at Nyngan NYNGAN

Evening News · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 8

Discernible for miles, and rising in the west like a black wall, the severest dust storm ever experienced here descended on the town…

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