Ship Loses Sails Fierce Gale Off Cape Horn Safe Home London, May 4
After losing sails in a fierce gale off Cape Hora, the German four masted barque Priwall has arrived at Barry (Wales), 106 days out…
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Floods & storms, 1933
182 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 10
Two Vessels Buffeted Terrific Storm In Tasman Sea Auckland (N.z.), May 9
The motorship Wanganerla has arrived at Wellington from Sydney after encountering a terrific storm, during which the vessel was hove to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prevention of War Consul's Advice To Peace Lovers Storm Centres Sydney
Mr. P. Staal, the Consul-General for the Netherlands, addressing a peace day celebration said his advice to all peace lovers throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Sweeps Sydney Rain Disorganises Traffic Accidents Sydney, Friday Night
During a storm which swept Sydney this evening between 5 and 7 o'clock, trallic was disorganised in the city and suburbs owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clean Up After Yesterday's Dust Storm
Citizens generally when spoken to to-day had one topic—yesterday's dust storm—and many expressed the view that is was the worst strom…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain Storm in S.A. Immense Benefit To Farmers ADELAIDE
Damage done by wind, hail and lightning in Adelaide last night when the metropolitan area was drenched by the heaviest May rain for 16 years,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner Caught in Gale Adelaide
Caught in a 50-mile-an-hour gale the mail liner Corfu which arrived at Outer Harbor to-day was severely lashed with 40ft. waves while…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner Caught in Gale Adelaide
Caught in a 50-mile-an-hour gale the mail liner Corfu which arrived at Outer Harbor to-day was severely lashed with 40ft. waves while…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), May 30.— Further serious floods have occurred in the Hawkes Bay district, as the result of seven inches of rain in three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rains in State Floods Are Feared In Some Parts SYDNEY
Heavy rain has fallen on parts of the North Coast and floods are likely. Mr. Camm, acting Meteorologist, said to-day that the position is most…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Rain in West Aus. Agricultural Areas Suffer PERTH
Heavy rain fell throughout the agricultural areas yesterday and today, causing floods in some parts and washaways on several country…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rain on North Coast Sydney—Brisbane Road Flooded SYDNEY
Heavy rain has continued to fall on the North Coast during the past 24 hours. Although further heavy showers can be expected over the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The flood dangers on the North Coast have become somewhat lessened owing to the easing off of the heavy rain. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Severe Storm in England Lightning Kills Three; Others Paralysed (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, June 19
Lightning struck down and killed three people in England in an afternoon. Many others were badly shaken, and one was paralysed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unusual Hail Storm At Lonsdale Station (From a Correspondent.)
About 4 p.m. on June 22 a hail storm passed over Lonsdale. Hailstones about the size of a sparrow's egg fell at the homestead, but there…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tom-Tom Warning Saves Explorer From Flood
SYDNEY, Monday.—A native chief who had heard a message by tomtoms that a cloudburst had occurred higher in the mountains, saved the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ulm's Flight to England Mollison's Record Threatened Awful Storm (Special to "The Miner") BASRA, June 30
Mr. C. T. P. Ulm in the monoplane Faith in Australia passed here at 10.30 a.m. on a non-stop light to Aleppo, which is a little…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Severe Sand Storm Over Iraq In Path Of Ulm's Faith In Australia (Special to "The Miner:") BASRA, June 29
An unprecedented sand Storm, violent and almost impenetrable, is raging over Iraq and is causing anxiety, over the Australian's record…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods In New Zealand
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), July 3.— Serious floods have occurred north of Auckland. Rivers are rising rapidly, and stock losses are feared. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hindu Pilgrims Buried Alive Were Sheltering In Gave From Storm a Family Drowned Calcutta, July 4
Twenty Hindu pilgrims were buried alive by a fall of rock in the moutheof a cave in which they had sought shelter from a strom They…
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