Opening a Flood Boat Shed
ON Tuesday evening last the newlyerected shed for the housing of the boats of the Grafton Water Brigade was formally opened by the President…
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Floods & storms, 1902
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Disastrous Floods. London
Great floods have occurred on the Nepaul. 100 lives have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious Loss of Shipping. Gale at Port Elizabeth. London
DURING a heavy gale at Port Elizabeth (South Africa), 11 sailing vessels were driven ashore and two tugs foundered. Later news states that 52 bodies…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Coal Mine Flooded. London
The Union coal-pit at Dean Forest, in Gloucestershire, has been flooded. Several miners were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in India. London
GREAT floods have have destroyed the Manga-Patrian bridge, India, precipitating the Madras-Bombay mail train into the river. Eight European…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Perils of the Sea. Terrific Gale at Capetown
THE South African mail has brought particulars of the shipping disasters that resulted from the hurricane that swept over Table Bay, Capetown, from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter River Floods
The Public Works Committee sat Thursday, and further inquired into the question of mitigating floods in the Hunter River. Mr. J. H. Maiden (Government Botanist) put in a comprehensive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Droughts and Floods
It is an acknowledged fact that floods enrich the soil they inundate in the valleys of the coastal rivers, by the fertilising deposit they distribute. They thereby to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Great Gale at Algoa Bay. Deeds of Heroism
THE gale which swept over Algoa Bay, South Africa, at the beginning of September is described as the worst experienced in the bay since the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tuckian Flood Escape Scheme Bill
The Tuckian Flood Escape Scheme Bill was before the Legislative Council, on a motion by Mr. Suttor for its second reading…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Rain on the Middle Clarence
Reports reached town last night of an exceedingly heavy rainfall on the Middle Clarence yesterday afternoon. Between Ulmarra and Brushgrove the fall was very…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in the Hunter River
Mr. J. H. Maiden's evidence before the Public Works Committee on the question of mitigating the effects of floods in the Hunter took the form of a carefully prepared…
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A mail coach, whilst crossing the river (Corang) on Thurday, was swept away a considerable distance. The driver and two horses were rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooding the Maize Market. Sydney
The steamer Anglo-Saxon arrived yesterday from Buenos Ayres with 5640 tons of maize and 180 tons of Bay…
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Mr. W. S. Campbell, Chief Inspector of Agriculture, gave evidence on the subject of mitigation of floods on the Hunter River, before the Public Works Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Violent Storm
Further particulars from Canowindra show that the damage done in the surrounding district by the tornado on Saturday was greater than was at first supposed. The storm appears to have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dangerous Spots in Thunderstorms
THE quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Rives some facts about the loss of life in the United States by lightning. The period dealt with is 11 years, 1890-1900, during…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Violent Thunderstorms. Sydney
Violent thunderstorms were experienced yesterday over a large area of the State. At Picton Mrs. Cooke, Mrs. Tomkins and a man named Buckley were struck by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Creat Flood
On Sunday, 15th February, 1863, Grafton was visited by a great flood. Only three or four months previously the river water was brackish nearly up to the First Falls…
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