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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
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AN IDEA OF THE EXTENT of the terrific storm which lashed Sydney on Monday is given in this picture of the submerged Coogee Oval. This Venetian view startled the residents when they rose in the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Further torrential rains have fallen in central and west Queensland. Considerable damage is reported, but there is great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Archbishop wright described the dispute between the Rev. D. H. Rettick, rector of St. Stephen's Church, Hurlstone Park,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The young Greek plasterer who stowed away aboard the dredge Sir William Matthews before it left Fremantle for Melbourne on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUCKLAND (N.Z.), February 1.— Settlers have been compelled to abandon their homes in many parts of New Zealand as a result of floods. Roads…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cairns on Saturday was still isolated as far as railway communication from here is concerned. The flood conditions were not improved by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The City Council has adopted a report repudiating any liabilities for damage caused by the recent flood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest was opened at Scarborough to-day concerning the deaths of a family named Davis, who lost their lives on January 22…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With angry seaa sweeping over Sandy Point Island and a 90-mile an hour gale howling through the darkness, 200 people are clinging…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The wreckage of a dozen coastal villages is tossing in the angry sens of St. George's Bay, on the west coast of Newfoundland. On…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Thursday.—Further heavy rains have fallen in Queensland. Railway services in the west are dislocated, and many washouts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four men were shot dead and 31 were wounded to-night when troops stormed the railway workshops in which 400 strikers had barricaded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →There have been further heavy rains in Queensland with recurrent floods. No trains are expected at Mount Isa before Sunday as the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven people have lost their lives in the blizzard—the worst for 50 years—which swept Britain and Ireland yesterday and to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Messrs. J. N. Purcell and R. Dunlop, Australian tennis players, arrived in Sydney on Saturday by the liner Maunganui,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A PICTURESQUE VIEW of Speyer, looking towards the cathedral. The city, which is on the Rhine, 70 miles north of Kehl, has been seized by Nazi storm troops. Speyer is in the demilitarised, zone…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BATAVIA (Java), March 19.— Heavy rains caused floods which washed away part of the railway line between Batavia and Cheribon,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For three days and three nights last week the Ellerman liner, City of Corinth, battled through a cyclone and tremendous seas while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrific rain storm over Mount Ruapehu has caused the phenomenal flooding of mountain streams. A bridge leading to the Chateau…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The German warship which arrived at Port Adelaide yesterday was greeted by "a blinding dust storm." Adelaide dust storms are quite equal…
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