Extensive Floods in Queens-land
News has been received at Wilcannia from Birdsville that the Queensland mail has been delayed by floods on the Lower Diamentina. Heavy rains have fallen all over that district…
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Heavy Gales on the New Zealand Coast. Serious Shipping Casualties. Loss of Life. [By Electric Telegraph.] Auckland
Terrific weather has been experienced on the East Coast. During the gale two small steamers were totally wrecked, with loss of life in each case. The Go-ahead, from…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Heavy Rain in New South Wales. Sydney
It has been raining almost incessantly during the last six hours, and there is no appearance of a break in the weather. Small floods are reported from various places in the coast…
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It is quite evident that a flood is at hand, although if the rain ceases it may not be so large as some expect. At Echuca the Council has decided to w[?] the people on the lowlands and to apply to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. Wreck of Vessels and Enormous Loss of Life
The Times of India, of June the 4th, furnishes the following reports regarding an extraordinarily disastrous cyclone which over the Bay of Bengal at the end…
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A telegram from Numurkah, dated 14th inst., states :ââ The floods in this district show no signs of abating. The reports to hand from Tocumwal state that the river Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Probable Spring Floods
THE similarity between the present session and that of the years 1867 and 1870, when the last two great floods occurred in the Murray, has induced the belief that a similar event will take place this year;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Floods in Hungary
The fate of the town of Mako and Vasarhely still hangs in the balance. correspondent of the London Standard describes the situation in the Alfold district…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods in Victoria. [By Electric Telegraph.] Benalla
It was feared last evening here that the river would rise higher than before. The rain, however, held off, and the water commenced to go down at about half-past I this…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Floods in Victoria. [By Electric Telegraph.] Mooroopna
The flood is still advancing, and to-day the Chinese gardeners were obliged to leave their gardens. Mr. W. S. Archer, J.P., kindly gave them temporary shelter. Three men,…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →The Floods. [?]
For the first time since the [?] flood in 1870 there are [?] there is a [?] year. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murray in Flood
If a patriotic Australian a dying Should be disposed to pray, he would not, like Goethe, ask for more light, but more water. Seekers after the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain and Floods in New South Wales. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney
The heavy easterly gales which commenced Friday prevailed all yesterday ; 3¾in. of rain has fallen since Wednesday. The wind, which blew with great force from the E.N.E…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Heavy Rain and Floods in Queensland. Loss of Life.[by Electric Telegraph.] Brisbane
The wet weather still continues, with no signs of clearing. Heavy and incessant rain fell throughout Friday night and yesterday morning. Five inches was registered, which…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Terrible Loss of Life in the Recent Cyclone
The Times’ Calcutta correspondent says it is now unhappily certain that at least two vessels—the Sir John Lawrence and the tug Retriever—were lost in the recent cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Serious Flood at Echuca
A telegram to hand on Tuesday states :— “The rivers are still rising at Echuca. The sudden rise in the Campaspe at Rochester is now beginning to he left at Echuca, as that…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Floods. Wednesday, August 17
The river Murray at Albury continued to fall until Monday last, when a further rise took place, the gauge showing a difference of from 7ft 7in on Monday morning to 8ft 6in on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in New South Wales. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, September 1
The Macquarie River is running a banker, and heavy floods are. expected at Dubbo, Warren, and lower down the stream. The Talbragar River is also in flood; The…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Floods on the Murray and Goulburn. [By Electric Telegraph.] Tocumwal
The Murray to-day reached the height recorded at the last flood, namely, 17ft 3½in. The rise up to yesterday morning was very rapid, averaging 1ft in 12 hours, but the water, being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Violent Storm
A violent thunderstorm passed over the Kerang district, Victoria, on Saturday. At Murrabit a stack of straw was struck by lightning and burnt, igniting a haystack near, both…
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