The Volunteer Camp Flooded
THE special reporter of the Evening News, writing from the National Park on Wednesday morning, says:—What is going to be done is the question being asked on all sides, and there is…
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Floods & storms, 1887
40 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 2
Floods in Sydney. Three Houses Demolished. Wreck and Ruin. Collapse of the Bondi Sewer. (From the Evening News.)
ONE of the most severe rain storms experienced here for many years visited the city last Wednesday morning. The rain, which had been falling intermittently from an early hour,…
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INFORMATION as to a great storm of rain in Sydney on Wednesday morning was given by telegram in our last issue. From the Evening News we extract the following…
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THE Goulburn Borough Council, take it for all in all, it one which works more harmoniously and with less friction than any other that we hear of, or read of; but on Thursday night last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Darker Than Death a Tale of the Russia of To-day. Chapter Xxxvii. the Calm Before the Storm.—the Lamentations of Jeremiah
"AFTER a storms calm." The proverbs trite but true; yet who that has experienced a dead calm immediately, following upon a storm in either the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the great Southern Oceans, would not wish…
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HEAVY rains have fallen in the south of New Zealand. At Greymouth the greatest flood known there has occurred, the whole town being under water to a depth of from two to six feet…
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THE floods in the Numurkah district show no signs of abating Reports from Tocumwal states that the River Murray has risen 17 feet above the summer level,…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Heavy floods are reported in the Goulburn Valley. The river is within a few feet of the great flood of 1870, and now registers 31ft. above summer level. The…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday,—Serious floods are reported from the north-eastern district. The Goulburn River has overflowed its banks, and all the low-lying ground along the valley…
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ONE of the heaviest easterly gales that has been experienced on the coast for a long time past occurred on Friday and Saturday, and was accompanied with a high sea; but so far as is…
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A telegram from Echuca states that the Murray is still rising, and a large number of families have been driven from their homes to seek refuge on higher ground. In…
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A MOST violent storm of wind passed over Yass on Saturday afternoon, and in its passage it turned over half the corrugated iron roof of the residence of Dr. Hoots, and uprooted garden…
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Serious floods which have occurred in the Nile Valley will, it is feared, result in a famine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Violent Gale in the United Kingdom. LONDON, Nov. 1
A violent gale raged over the greater part of England and Ireland for several hours to-day, causing great damage to property and loss of life in various parts of the country…
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Young, Saturday.—Violent storms, accompanied by heavy peals of thunder, occurred here last night and early this morning, doing considerable damage in parts of the district. Trees…
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DURING the storm on Sunday night the residence of Mr. Billingham, of near Crookwell, was struck by lightning. The fluid passed along the roof timber, doing some damage, and…
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A THUNDERSTORM, accompanied by a great gale and heavy rain, passed over Tumut at 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The path of the storm was confined to a narrow bolt, and in its…
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YASS, Wednesday.—A terrific storm passed over Yass on Monday evening, at 6 o'clock. It rained in torrents for about half-an-hour, and a hailstorm followed. All the creeks overflowed…
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AT about half post eleven on Sunday night, when the thunderstorm was at its height the lightning strick a new shingled roofed building used for the calves and pigs on the premises of…
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WEST MAITLAND, Thursday,—Rain has fallen in Maitland almost continuously since Sunday afternoon, and this, backed up by a very heavy fall of rain in several…
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