Police Court. Friday, 5Th February, 1904. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M.)
HERBERT SOLOMONS pleaded guilty to trespassing on the enclosed lands of Georgo Hayne, in Main-street, Scone, and was fined 5s. Mr J. A. K. Shaw…
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Floods & storms, 1904
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The Very Latest Cables London, Friday afternoon. the Thames Flood
The flood in the Thames is the highest since the year 1994. The river is eight feet above the normal level. At Datchet many thousands of acres are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrific Storm in Melbourne. Wreck of a Sciiooner. Considerable Damage Done
A great storm broke over Melbourne on Saturday evening, between 6 and 8 o'clock, Rain fell in blinding sheets, and the wind blew with hurricane force, while heavy rain continued…
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ON Saturday last one of the heaviest storms over experienced occurred in Melbourne, and lasted till some time after daybreak on Sunday morning…
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A great storm broke over Melbourne on Saturday evening, between 6 and S o'clock. Rain fell in blinding sheets, and the wind blew with hurricane force, while heavy rain continued…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Court. Tuesday, Feb. 15Th. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M.)
James Francis Curran, pleaded guilty to a charge of using profane language in a public place on Sunday afternoon last, and was fined 20[?] and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waterspout Bursts. Johannesburg Flooded
A cable message on January 21 stated that a terrible disaster, due waterspouts and the bursting of a great dam, had occurred at Johannesburg…
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HEAVY rain fell in the city and suburbs throughout the night and continued to-day with but slight intermission…
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Heavy rain has fallen in parts of South Australia, and washaways have occurred on the railway line. Railway communication with Broken Hill has been interrupted…
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An Adelaide telegram, on Tuesday night, says:—Petersburg, a township about 400 miles north of Adelaide, reports that the streets are flooded,…
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AN Adelaide telegram, on Tuesday night says :—Petersburg, a township about 400 miles north of Adelaide reports that the streets are flooded…
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MR HUNT, Acting Meteorologist, stated on Thursday evening that a monsoonal depression was now forming a rotary twin circulation in its…
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FURTHER particulars of the floods at Petersburg and Gladstone (S.A.) show that there are nineteen washawaye on the Broken Hill line, and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood in the Hunter. Melville Bridge Washed Away. the Floodgates Smashed. Break in Bolwarra Dam
Light rain fell nearly all day yesterday, and continued throughout last night. But people plodded about, careless of the wet, and in their anxiety about the rapid rise of the…
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As this is written, the Hunter River is rising so rapidly, with added volume expected to follow, that precautions are being taken, in case of the river breaking over its…
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Residents who believod in taking time by the forelock, and who had experience of floods in Singleton, after gasing at the River Hunter, which was rising rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Thursday, February 25Th. (Before C. H. Gale, P.M.)
A. H. Nepveur v. G. E. Morey, for unlawfully detaining two cases containing pictures, books, household linen, etc…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood in the Hunter. the Waters Abating. Fishery Creek Farms Flooded. Bolwarra Dam Breaks Again
The Hunter River continued to rise steadily at Maitland throughout last night, and this morning it had reached a height of 29ft. 3in., although the swell at times passed over the…
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At Tambar Springs the total fall was 1164 points—the heaviest ever known in such a short time. Further rain is threatening. The streams are in flood, and much land has been covered by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods and the Railways
The Railway Commissioners report that very little interruption to traffic resulted from the recent rains. The only delay was on the line between Narrabri and Burren, which, being of…
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