Flooding the Sahara
''With reference to the daring French project for flooding the desert of Sahara with what would be virtually a new sea, it may be well,"…
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Floods & storms, 1885
22 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Great Floods on the Paroo
The following telegram from Mr. W. J. Hanna, road superintendent, has been received by the Engineer-in-Chief for Roads and Bridges;—"Enormous floods on the Paroo…
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A terrific storm swept over Forbes on Friday afternoon, doing considerable damage to property. A large two-storeyed brick building was unroofed, and the windows blown in bodily. In many places…
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About 2 o'clock on Friday afternoon a duststrom set in at Narrandera find nearly nearly an hour and a-half, during which time the town was enveloped in almost total darkness. All business was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic Intelligence. Floods at Cootamundra. Another Railway Accident Averted. Cootamundra, Tuesday, 8 p.m
A second flood accrued here to-day. The rain commenced yesterday, and up to half-pact one, sixty-eight points bad fallen. It then ceased, but a very heavy shower fell…
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They was a heavy fall of rain at Wagga on Monday evening, when as much as 82 points were registered within half-an-hour. About a quarter of a mile from Wagga, on the Albury side, a quantity of…
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AN Adelaide telegram, dated Thursday, says:—Mr. J. B. Miller, a recent arrival from Birdsville, states that rain commenced to fall in the Diamantina country on January…
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The Port Albert correspondent of the Argus writes on Thursday last :—The heaviest flood that has visited this part of South Gippsland for seven years past came down the creeks east of the range…
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News is to hand by the s.s. Otway, from Cambridge Gulf. The captain reports that he had fine weather throughout the voyage, and that he considers the harbour at Cambridge Gulf a splendid…
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THE M.M. steamer Peiho brings intelligence of the wreck of the British steamer Speke Hall in a cyclone, about 180 miles this side of Aden. All hands were lost…
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ALL in the springtide of the year When days were bright, Through tall white gums and forest oaks Fell shafts of light…
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THE steamer Tannadice, which arrived at Cooktown from Hongkong on Tuesday, brings the following China news:—The long-continued heavy rains have had the effect of swelling the stream of…
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The city had a taste of the "beautiful snow" on Tuesday night. The cold rain which set in at dark changed at about 7 o'clock to a snow-strom and were it not that the ground was moist, it is…
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Some additional particulars with regard to the disastrous floods which occurred in the valley of the Canton River, China, at the end of June, are furnished by the Hong…
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Sydney, September 14.—Rain is reported from a number of country districts to-day; none has fallen in the city. At Tumut the rain began on Saturday and continued until…
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Sydney, September 16.—A telegram from Albury states that the Murray is now so high that there is every prospect of an overflow inundating all lowlying lands…
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A cablegram appeared recently stating than nine acres of reefs at the entrance of New York Harbour had boon removed by dynamite. The following…
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A storm of unusual severity passed over Heathcote, Victoria, on Wednesday last. The Argus correspondent states that James Egan, a farmer and blacksmith at Cornella, was killed…
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THE reports from the country district and around Hobart show that a great deal of damage has been done by the recent heavy rains, which only ceased about 2 o'clock on Monday. Orchards have been…
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A heavy thunderstorm passed over Brisbane on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by a couple of hours steady rain. The storm was much heavier in the surrounding districts than…
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