The Storm in Paris. Contractors Attacked. Paris. June. 20
It is estimated that the damage caused by the recent subsidences in the streets owing to the heavy rainstorm, with payments for compensation, will amount to £100…
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Floods & storms, 1914
305 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 16
Floods in America. Succession of Storms. Chicago, June 27
Large sections of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, have been devastated by the third violent storm that has been experienced within a week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in China. Tremendous Damage Done. Canton, June 27
The Peklang and the Siklang overflowed their banks during the week, and there have resulted the worst floods that have been experienced in China for half a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in America. Succession of Storms
Chicago, Sunday.—Large sections of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa have been devastated by the third violent storm that has been experienced within…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain in Sydney. Sydney
Heavy rain fell yesterday and throughout the night, 278 points being registered up till nine o'clock this morning when it was still raining heavily…
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Heavy rain continued in the City, and nearly three inches have been recorded during the past 24 hours. Reports form the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in America. Succession of Storms. Chicago, June 27
Large sections of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, have been devastated by the third violent storm that has been experienced within a week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Birds and the Monks. Alpine Storms
(Last autumn during lone of the terrifies storms that frequent the Alps, an iminense number of migratory bird were caught in the violent winds, and thousands of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Police Court. Tuesday, 7th July, 1914. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M.)
L. Malloy (Adjunct 14th Infantry) proceeded against F. J. Stedson, Thomas W[?]Lewis, M. Hyams, James Hill, Robert L. Dobbie, for having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tasman in Cyclone. Batavia, July 11
The Royal packet liner Tasman voyanging from Australia, was caught in a cyclone for a period of 30 hours. The passengers were panie - stricken, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Crisis in Ireland. Ulster Storm. Ovation to Sir Edward Carson. London. July 11
Unionist papers to-day publish despatches and editorials warning the public that the storm may burst at any moment, as the Ulstermen are sick of inaction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tasman in Cyclone. Batavia, July 11
The Royal Packet liner Tasman, voyaging from Australia, was caught in a cyclone for a period of 30 hours. The passengers were panic-stricken, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain on North Coast
On Monday 730 points of rain fell at Clarence Heads. Ballina had 371 points, Li[?]more 210, Casino 207, Bellingen 194, Byron Bay 158, Murwillumoah…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Police Court. Tuesday, July 21st, 1914. (Before MR. C. H. Gale, P.m.)
Henry Hargan was charged with haxing been drunk and disorderly, and with having made use of indecent language.—Senior-constable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Bulgaria. Sofia, July 23
Severe floods have occurred in the Jambell, Razgrad and Eski-Junmaya districts. Hundreds of bodies have been recovered. The damage amounts to many million frances…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Zeppelin Airship Disaster. Wrecked in a Gale. Crew's Narrow Escape. Berlin June 14
Another Zeppelin airship has fallen a victim to the elements and become a total wreck. Though the destruction in this case is not so complete as that which befell most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Deluge in Babylonia
An account is given in "The Times" of remarkable discovery made by Dr. Langdon, reader in Assyriology at Oxford which is of extreme importance to Biblical archacology. Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Expecting a Storm. Brussels
It is reported that a German princess occupying a castle in Belgium cleared out its valuable contents six weeks ago, and sent them to Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LICENSING-COURT. (Before Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., and J. W. Birkenhead, L.M.)
The transfer of the license of the Hunter River Steam Packet Inn, Morpeth, from Elizabeth Clark to William Maxwell Farquharson, was granted. Messrs. T. A. Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Far East. Floods Hinder Operations. Peking, Sept. 9
Torrential rains have caused floods, which have destroyed the bridges near Tsing-Tao, and this has had the effect of checking the Japanese land operations…
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