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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
192 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 10
LOST in flood country with no distinctive features last week end, Broken Hill Aero Club pilot Nick Porich spent a gruelling two days finding a way back to Cordillo Downs Station…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE— A cyclone was operating over the Pacific Ocean 250 miles east-north-east of Willis Island late yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE— Heaviest damage ever known has been caused to parts of the south coast of Queensland by the first cyclone of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY— After the cyclone last night had isolated Brisbane by air, all Queensland airports were reopened this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brisbane, March 24. — A terrific cyclone is battering the southern coast of Queensland. Gigantic seas ore threatening to smash homes and are flooding beaches in many areas. The cyclone zone extends along 150 miles of coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE.—A cyclonic disturbance which caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage in South Australia, at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adelaide, April 11.—Damage estimated to total hundreds of thousands of pounds has been caused by a gale lasting several hours which began very early this morning and worked up to a wind velocity exceeding 80 miles per hour, covering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, April 13.—A cyclonic storm caused heavy damage to a strip 20 miles long and a mile wide in the lower Macleay district this afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HUGE WAVES pounding the seafront washed away sections of Glenelg jetty (S.A.), completely isolating the end, which is about 400 yards from the shore, and the Aquarium. A man who was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Adelaide, April 12.—Authoritative estimates of the damage throughout Adelaide metropolitan area caused by yesterday's unprecedented gale have now placed the aggregate losses at probably more than £1,000,000. The hurricane took…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Darwin, April 18.—Heavy monsoonal rains at the end of the wet season have caused the worst flooding in living memory in the Arnhem Land country…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE. — Heavy damage to crops and serious loases, of sheep and cattle were reported In heavy floods over large areas of East,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELEOURNE.—Mysterious lights were seen by a shark fisherman's daughters off the coast at Port Albert…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Darwin, April 19.—Daly River in the Northern Territory broke its banks early today and flooded vast areas of low lying country, completely…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DARWIN. — The worst floods in the forthern Territory for 21 years are extending for more than 22,000 square miles over the northern part of the territory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Darwin, April 24.—The story of a white man who lived up a big tree for five days when the Alligator Rivers broke their banks has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy falls of rain are reported from the Wilcannia district, where 114 points fell at Werunda and about an inch at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, May 2.—Floods in Southern Queensland and Northern N.S.W. are subsiding, although the cyclonic condition is now moving southward and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney.—Heavy damage has been done to farm lands where the Richmond and Tweed Rivers broke their banks at the week end. Pasture lands in dairying districts suffered heavily, and graziers say that the effect on the milk and butter industry will be felt throughout the winter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney.—Flood warnings in the central and south coast districts, where torrential rain has fallen during the past two days, were…
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