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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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A terrible storm, approaching a cyclone in its devastating power, has caused terrible destruction over a wide area of the United States. It appears that on Aug. 24 intense heat was experienced, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letters lately received in England contain particulars of some extraordinary floods which have visited parts of China and Japan, resulting in the loss of many hundreds of lives and enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Greene, Iowa, June 24.—When Farmer James Keegan of Cerro Gordo county stood at the rattling south window of his sitting room on Saturday evening, ten days ago, watching the tornado as best he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our cable messages have recently conveyed intelligence of a disastrous famine in portions of India, and of floods in other parts. These appeared to have reached a serious stage at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →It is not so long ago that a sentry on night duty at Woolwich Arsenal, under the impression that a form approaching was that of an enemy, bayoneted a comrade whilst walking in his sleep. Early on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sept. 8 a cyclone passed across Ohio, south of Columbus. It demolished several buildings at Plain City, and then proceeded south-westwards, over Washington Courthouse, a place having 4000…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ELSEWHERE we print a letter addressed by the member for West Maitland to the Minister of Works, suggesting the employment of Sir John Coode in connexion with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A thunderstorm of extraordinary violence broke over the town on Thursday evening last. The weather had been intensely hot throughout the week, and about half-past 3 o'clock on the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News has been received from Ada Vale, a township about 150 miles west of Charleville, that a terrible tornado occurred there last Thursday, causing the partial wreck of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A famous object of maritime anathema has been removed from the American coast, and one of the greatest engineering feats of modern times has been successfully accomplished. On Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—As a reader of your widely-spread journal, I noticed by the issue of the 19th November ult., your energetic member enquired from the Minister for Public Works as to whether he would have the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The accounts which have lately come to hand of the recent cyclone on the Orissa coast show that the loss of life and property has been appalling. Mr. Commissioner Metcalfe early visited the scene of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Sir,—Amongst the many strange things told us lately in connection with the drought are the extraordinary efforts put forth by the blacks in various parts of Australia to prepare for the wet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN a letter to a Detroit paper, E. Stone Wig gins says:—In a recent issue of your journal you say I have predicted that next winter will no unusually mild. This is news to me. With…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dr. Christison had observed that an unusually brilliant display of aurora borealis was invariably followed on the third day by a storm—a theory which was proved at a most appropriate moment,…
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