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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms
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TRIALS at Capetown of the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy resulted unfavorably, owing to the dryness of the atmosphere. On the other hand, the system proved a great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GREAT floods have occurred in England, particularly in the west. At Bath, Somersetshire, hundreds of people had to leave their homes, and take shelter in the schools…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE was a heavy storn last [?] nearly [?] inches of [?] falling [?] The tram [?] with, and consider [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A most remarkable storm burst over the city about ten o'clock last night, and for a while the principal streets presented the appearance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A remarkable storm burst over the city at 10 o'clock last night accompanied by terrific thunder and lightning. Nearly three inches of rain fell in half-an-hour, being a record…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy thunderstorms passed over the country yesterday and numerous washaways occurred causing considerable damage. The Hawkesbury River has risen ten feet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The accounts which have come in relative to the storm of Monday night of last week show that in some places it was the heaviest ever experienced. On the Upper Macleay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,--In writing a few lines under the above heading I only desire in the first-place to refer very briefly to the destruction, loss of property and misery that were occasioned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY afternoon, about 4 o'clock, a fearful storm, resembling a cyclone in velocity, passed over Marlee. The day had been excessively hot, the thermometer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The thunderstorms of South Africa are very violent in character, and no wet season passes without its record of lightning accidents. The natives…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The thunderstorms of South Africa are very violent in character, and no wet season passes without its record of lightning Accidents The natives…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE cost of the Hunter River flood relief scheme, as estimated by the Public Works Department, is £890,000, compiled as follows:—Constructing training walls and coating the river banks with stone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On one of the Babylonian tablets exhumed from the ancient city of Nineveh, and now in the British Museum, is an inscription of surprising interest and importance. It…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A GREAT storm occurred in Victoria on Monday and Tuesday last. Many vessels in Hobson's Bar dragged their anchors. A ketch was driven ashore, and several towns were flooded. Between 7 and 8 inches…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A FLOOD has occurred at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (U.S.), doing damage estimated at 3,000,000 dol. (about £600,000). Thousands of people have been rendered idle by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On one of the Babylon an ta[?] exhumed from the ancient city of Niseveh, and now in the British Museum, is an p[?] of surprising interest and importance. It…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following extract is from an account of a slave a[?] is Now Orleans, some fifty years age, written by a spectators:— When a young man is called upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON one of the Babylonian tablets exhumed from the ancient city of Nineveh, and now in the British Museum, is an inscription of surprising interest and importance. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After a spell of fine cleat weather, a stormy change set in on Friday last, which gradually strengthened along the coast, and from all points north and south reports of gales and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The schooner " Amelia Sims " from Newcastle, was towed into Nelson, New Zealand. She encountered fearful weather on the run across…
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