Flooded Potatoes
THE majority of the people who had potatoes planted in low-lying land thought they were destroyed during the floods in March. The experience, however, of Mr. J. Otton, jun., of Murray's Flat, is in…
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Floods & storms, 1898
47 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 3
The Weather and River. Gale on the Coast
THE weather was very warm on Monday and Tuesday, but towards evening on the last named day the sky became overcast, and later on a thunderstorm, with vivid flashes of lightning, and high gusts of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Floods. Very Heavy Rain. Rivers Flooded. General on the North Coast. The Hunter, Macleay, Gloucester and Barrington Rivers in Flood. Big Flood at Dungog and Patterson. of Serious Results. Over 14 inches at Laurieton
THE exceptionally heavy rain that commenced to come down in earnest last Tuesday evening has continued with almost unabated force up to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Thunderstorm. Eighteen Persons Killed. London, August 28
DURING a severe thunderstorm at Foggia, Italy, a number of peasants took refuge in an old house. While sheltering, the building collapsed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood on the Wallamba. Mailman's Horse Drowned. Great Damage Done
A VERY heavy storm passed over the Wallamba on Tuesday night last, accompanied with torrents of rain and vivid lightning. It continued to rain all night and all the next day, without intermission,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A South-West Gale
A STRONG south-west gale sot in about 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon last, and we are informed when it first struck the water the river at Tinonee, that it blow the water in spray like a cloud for some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Snowstorms and Gales. New York and Boston Suffer. London, November 28
HEAVY snowstorms and severe gales have swept over the eastern seaboard of the United States. In New York traffic was paralysed, and twelve fatalities occurred at Boston…
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