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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
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SYDNEY.—Apart from more than 350 people injured in violent hail storms which swept Sydney yesterday causing damage which on preliminary official intimates will exceed £250,000, the New Year's Day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY.—Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by an 80 m.p.h. gale which struck the North Coast town of Maclean…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, January 2.—A terrific hail storm, which lashed Sydney and many suburbs curly on Wednesday afternoon caused damage estimated at hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Colin. Forrest, of Glenora Station, left his homestead by motor car at 7 p.m. on Saturday night to bring his sick wife, aged 65 years, to the Broken Hill Hospital. It was the beginning of a night of terror for them, as at 8 p.m., they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GRAFTON — Gales which reached a velocity of 80 mile an hour yesterday caused damage to many houses in both…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grafton, January 3.—A terrific storm during which the wind velocity reached ninety m.p.h. and an inch and a half of rain fell in twenty minutes struck Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—At the height of a fierce hail, rain and windstorm which lashed the city and eastern suburbs late yesterday, adding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →San Francisco, January 6.-Waves reached a height of 40 feet, battering the shorelines of the Hawaiian Islands during a violent storm, which raged at the week-end: The seas left a trail of damage reminiscent of that following the April tidal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, January 7.—Yesterday severe storm, the second within a week, has Intensified the rush on tiles and other materials for repairing the damage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE.—Unable to land at Charlcsville yesterday be cause of dust storms a Dutch naval air force Dakota on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, January 7.—Two Passengers and the co-pilot were killed and 20 passengers were injured in a plane crash at Carmel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney, January 7.—Sydney insurance companies have received thousands of inquiries fro inpolicy-holders following the heavy hailstorm last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PERTH.—Broome residents, at a stormy meeting, protested strongly against the return of two Australian-born men of Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WAVES REACHING a height of 40 ft. battered the shoreline areas of the Hawaiian islands early this week…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →INVERELL—When a whirlwind struck a poultry form on Glen Innes Road yesterday it lifted 1,000 fowls into the air and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New York, January 14.—Winter's severest storm is at present raging over the entire North Atlantic, and even the biggest ships are laboring in a 50-miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, January 15— The liner America, which is the pride of the American passenger fleet, arrived in New York from Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New York, January 15.—Latest casualties in the violent gale which has been lashing the Atlantic for more than a week include the Canadian Government own[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.)— A cyclone which- struck the Opotiki district in the Bay of Plenty demolished several buildings and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY—Lightning during last night's violent electrical storm damaged. two houses burnt power and telephone wires…
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