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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
64 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 4
The Eussian ship hari of Zetland arrived in the Bay last night." The captain reports that on May 9, in 40 degrees south and 58'8 degrees east, off the coast of Africa, daring a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The rainfall at Winning Pool for the past few days has been phenomenal. To day saw the greatest flood that has over taken place in the district, the Minilya River rising…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Italian barque Maria, which left here for Buenos Ayres on the 11th instant, loaded with timber, has returned to port disabled. The captain reports that after leaving port the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney pestal authorities notify that telegraphic business with Victoria, Tasmania, West Australia, South Australia, and Queensland is being and will be subjected to serious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday night heavy showers fell in Adelaide, and yesterday rain fell off and on all day. This morning the sky is cloudy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After several days of them at severe weather ever experienced in the eastern part of the colony, the weather around Sydney shows signs of breaking this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegram from the country report that heavy snow continues, but the floods are subsiding. SYDNEY, Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ceptain Phillips, of the ship Agnes Oswald, has given further details of his experience during the voyage from London. Heavy weather s[?]t in on May 31, running down to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After discharging explosives in the bay the ship Agnes Oswald came up to the Brisbane wharf yesterday. Captain Phillips reports that after leaving London the ship…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy loss of st[?]ck and damage to property has b[?]en caused by the flood in the Forbes district. One selector, M'Lean, lost 800 ewes recently, purchased for 12s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 150 families are temporarily homeless as a result of the Hawkesbury flood, being principally the farmers on the lowlands…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barquentine Wrestler, bound from British Columbia to Melbourne with a cargo of 500,000ft. of lumber, has put into Sydney in distress, beating tracts of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy loss of stock and damage to property has been caused by the flood in the Forbes district. One selector, M'Lean, lost 800 ewes recently purchased for 12s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy rain is still falling in Sydney. The low-lying suburbs are already again flooded. Mr. Russell, the Government Astronomer, predicts big rises on the Hunter and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further particulars of the Pietsing battle show that the allies expelled the Chinese from their first positions after two hours' desperate fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The weather, which has been very fine for the last day or two, has completely changed. Last night rain began to fall, and several heavy showers have been experienced, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →People whose business compelled them to be out of doors to-day have had an experience even more unpleasant than usually falls to the lot of weather-worried Barrierites…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The weather was so rough at the anchorage to-day that it was impossible for launches to leave the jetty with mails and passengers for the English mail steamer. Finally the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram from Albury states that the River Murray is running a banker, the flood having been caused by heavy rains on the watersheds of the Mitta Mitta and Little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Major-General Carrington, with the Australian Bushmen, is skirmishing between Zeerust and Mafeking. A cyclone has caused enormous…
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