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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
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A heat wave passed over the grea[?]er part of the State on Saturday Wilcannia reported 114 degrees in the shade; Kendall (264 miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Remarkably unseasonable weather has been experienced throughout Victoria. Fierce westerly gales along the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heat wave was very severe in the West. The registration at Kendill (?) being 123 [?] in the shade, Walgett 120 1/4. and Goodega 120…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Very cold weather has been experienced in Austria, c[?]using the mountains to be covered with snow and the rivers with ice A thaw,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recently a terrific storm passed over the west coast of South Australia. On the farm of Mr. Fraser a haystack was Ignited by the lightning, then rain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A severe hurricane has passed over East Fiji and rough weather at present prevails about Suva. It is feared that much damage has been caused at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather is unsettled; in the city a cool change came last night. A heavy storm caused a washaway on the line between Carrieton and Eurelia,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain has fallen continuously for 60 hours over the greater part of Sootland. Unprecedented floods have [?]rred between the Firth of Forth and Ness,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The officer in charge of the telegraph office ab Fairview wires the Deputy Postmatser-General at Brisbane that a swagman was taken in an exhausted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE thunderstorm which visited Broken Hill last evening was noisy while it lasted, and at about 7.30 the rain appeared to have began in earnest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from Fairview states that a laborer, with a blackboy, has returned from the Kennedy River, having carried across sufficient rations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent at Coen, in North Queensland, reports that heavy rain continues in the Ebagoolah district and no mails have been received for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy rain continues to fall in Scotland. One cootin[?] fall lasting 70 hours so fl[?]oded the river that i[?] caused the Clyde to burst its banks at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The damage caused to the factories at Rutherglen, near Glasgow, the result of the overflowing of the flooded Clyde, is estimated at £60,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather experiences since Friday have been remarkable, Mostly wild and blustering conditions have prevailed, with boisterous wintry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Saturday's duststorm was one of the severest experienced in Broken Hill for a long time past. It almost completely paralysed business for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Atlantic liner Germanic experienced a terrific gale voyaging to New York. While the passengers were praylog in the saloon the captain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from Normanton that the country in the far north is flooded and that two men have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy rain has caused several landslips in the Zeeham district, causing damage to the Dandas tramway. Four thousand tons of earth slid on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamers arriving at varions British ports report that the hurricane of the past few days experienced off the British coast was the worst known for…
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