Heavy Storm
The weather on Monday was oppressive up to one o'clock. After that hour a storm gathered to the west, and burst over Maclean about 4 p.m. A very heavy downpour of rain ensued, flooding the gutters…
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Floods & storms, 1899
40 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
Great Gales in England
LONDON, January 16.--As a goods train of the London and North Western Railway Company, bound for Manchester, was passing Llanfairfechan. a small seaport in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New Guinea Cyclone
A correspondent writing to the General Secretary of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society says:—I am exceedingly sorry to have to report that this part of our…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cyclone in Queensland
THE Telegraph Department received the following memo, from Bowen:--"A severe cyclone visited Bown on Sunday at 10 p.m., and lasted until 4 o'clock on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Snow Storm in New York, London
HEAVY falls of snow have almost stopped business in New York. The railway and tram traffic is blocked, and the harbour is filled with ice, vessels being nimble to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Federation. After the Storm
Mr. Wise has just returned from a five weeks' holiday in Tasmania, and when interviewed said: "I am delighted with the turn of affairs. I am delighted that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Prevention Question
WE are glad to see that Mr. McFarlan[?] has not lost sight of the golden opportunity afforded by Mr. Napier Bell's presence in the colony to obtain an independent and authoritative report upon Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Flood (Sic) Grant
According to a paragraph in the Lismore CHRONICLE the member for that district has been informed that the Secretary for Public Works has approved of the sum of £1000 being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Storms in England
Writing from England Louis Becke says:—Twice since the beginning of the New Year has the South Coast of England from the North Foreland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Violent Gales in England
THE English winter has been marked by gales and storms of extreme violence following in quick succession in the last two month. The last commenced on February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Violent Gales in England
The English winter has been marked by gales and storms of extreme violence following in quick succession in the last two months. The last commenced on February…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Gale in Sydney. Sydney
A terrific storm raged throughout yesterday until about 7 p.m., when the wind suddenly dropped. At times the wind reached a velocity of 71 miles an hour,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An American Cyclone
AT Kirksville, Mo., on April 27, at 6 pm, a cyclone swept a broad, clean path nearly a quarter of a mile wide. The east side of the town was entirely destroyed. Fully 400 houses were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Coming Deluge
IT would be inconvenient to say the least (says the LONDON DAILY MAIL, )if London were some day soon to find itself at the bottom of several miles of water. Yet some geoligists assert that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter Flood Relief
THE Minister for Works has received a report from Mr. C. Napier Bell, the engineer who was requested to report upon the prevention of floods in the Hunter River district, in which he gives…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Kallatina in the Gale. a Perilous Experience
CONSIDERABLE anxiety was manifested during Monday and Tuesday last as to the whereabouts of the steamer Kallatina which left Sydney on Saturday night for the Clarence. The anxiety…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wild Weather. A Record Rainfall Shipping in the Storm—The Kallatina's Experience. Four Days at Sea
THE rainfall on Sunday and Monday last was the heaviest ever experienced in Maclean. From midnight on Saturday, when it commenced, to midnight on Monday, when is eased off,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kallatina in a Gale
The Kallatina that left Sydney on Saturday last had a protracted trip, and encountered the full force of the gale. She arrived off the bar as usual on Monday, but crossing in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamers in the Gale
SEVERAL steamers had a rough time of it on the coast last week. Largo losses of stock occurred oh the steamers Auburg and Katoomba. The former left Sydney on Saturday week, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood on the Richmond
LATER particulars of the last week's flood on the Richmond show that, the water reached a height of thirty-one feet at Lismore and forty six feet at Irvington. At Coraki the River rose…
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