The Weather. Useful Storms
The rainfall throughout the State during January was substantially below the average. The distribution of rain for the North Coast was from…
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Floods & storms, 1916
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Floods in Queensland. Railway Bridge Covered. Brisbane
Heavy floods have occurred in Queensland. The water is five feet over the railway bridge across the Leichhardt River at Cloncurry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrific Gale in Britain. Three Lives Lost. Great Damage Wrought. London, Thursday Night
A terrific storm has raged on the British coast and three lived were lost. A lightning bolt wrecked sixteen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further Floods in Holland. London
A storm is imperilling fresh districts in Holland. The waters are rushing in on northern towns, and the inhabitants are evacuating the place. Railway dykes were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Rain at Yass. Creeks Flooded. Sydney
Owing to heavy rain the creeks at Yass are running a banker…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Snowstorm and Floods. Hague
Strong north- easterly winds and snowstorms are causing great floods. It is feared the dykes will yield and Amsterdam be flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Storm at Inverell. Heavy Damage Done. Sydney
Immense damage was done by a rain storm at Inverell, when ten inches fell in one night. The gully bridge over the Elsmore was swept away and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Damage by Storms
A special meeting of the Maclean Municipal Council was held on Tuesday night to deal with several serious washa ways, etc. that had occurred as a result of the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An American Cyclone. Red Watson Outs Fred Delaney. Brisbane, Sunday Night
At the Brisbane Stadium last night Red Watson (10-6) put Fred Delaney (10-512) out in two minutes 27 seconds, after dropping the Englishman with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alumny Creek Flood Refuge. Revocation Gazetted
It is notified in the "Government Gazette" of Friday last that it is expedient in the public interest to resume an area of 121 a, of land at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Rain. Ten Inches in 150 Minutes Sydney
During a sudden storm at Tewant, in Queensland, 985 points of rain, fell in two and a half hours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclonic Storm. Sydney
Cyclonic wind struck Stratford, New Zealand, and for a mile cut a 60ft track through the outskirts of the town. Trees, sheds, and fences were torn down and blown away…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Revocation of Flood Reserves. Questions in Parliament
In the Legislative Assembly on Monday night. Mr. W. A. Zuill, M.L.A., for The Clarence, asked the Secretary for Lands,--…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alumny Creek Flood Boat. (To the Editor of the "Argus.")
Sir,--In your issue of the 22nd a paragraph apeared from the Great Marlow Progress Association re the flood boat. I wish to inform all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revocation of Flood Refuge Reserves
Mr. Zuill, in the House last week, asked the Secretary for Lands: (1) Is it a fact that the Government proposes to revoke a number of flood refuge reserves in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Eastern Front. Russia's Plans. Leaving Floods to Do the Work. Aiding the French. London, Thursday Night
Russia's present purpose is not to try and drive the Germans from Courland, for the reason that before the innumerable rows of entanglements and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alumny Creek. Recent and Early Days. Light on the Flood Refuges. the Uses of a Local Member
The following interesting particulars will be of the greatest value to present residents of Alumny Creek, as well as to the earlier settlers. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain. Deluge at Cape Hawke. Sydney
Heavy rains have fallen on the North Coast; 820 points fell at Cape Hawke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weather. Heavy Rain and Rivers Rising
April has, so far, been a very wet month; up to the present there are only two days on which rain has not fallen. The following falls are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Trenches Flooded. Petrograd
The "Novoe Vremya" states that the thaw flooded a wide expanse of country occupied by Germans on the Baltic front. Scores were…
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