Sugar Industry Difficulties. Flood, Cyclones and Drougth
The annual conference of the United Canegrowers' Association was held at Brisbane on Thursday. The president (Mr. T. A. Powell, Mackay)…
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Saturday's Storm Effect Ox Bungambra Creek
Just where the Bungambra Creek enters the Murray River in Messrs. T. H. Mate and Co's paddock, extensive washaways and uprooting? of trees were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Record Fall of Rain. 187 Points in Twenty Minutes. Albury Streets Flooded
On Saturday afternoon, between 4.30 and 5 o'clock, the severest rainstorm' ever recorded in Albury took place. The day had been hot and sultry. Early in the…
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A message from Kimberley (South Africa) states that the protracted drought has been followed by continuous rains, which have caused serious floods in the…
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Nancy Glennon, aged 15, and George Hulm, aged 3, were washed away and drowned by the flood waters on Marengo station, in the Young district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Snowstorms and Floods. Atlantic Coast. Vancouver, March 5
New York advises heavy snow storms and floods on the Atlantic Coast. Over two million dollars of damage has been done…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Tropical Thunderstorm. Darwin
While Councillor Cant and two employes were unloading timber at the Government stores from a four-horse lorry, there was a violent crash of thunder, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Artificial Rain. Supersedes Irrigation by Flooding. Pathurst
Experiments in artificial rain are being employed at the Macquarrie Vale Soldier Settlement, at Bathurst. The water is —Reuter. above the areas to be irrigated…
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Dear Uncle Jeff,—It is a good few months since I last wrote to the Page. We had a terrible flood here about a fortnight ago. My cousin and I went down…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Heavy Rain In Queensland. Nine and Ten Inches Recorded Brisbane
Very heavy rain has fallen in Queensland, between 9 and 10 inches having been recorded at Townsville, Cairns, and Port Douglas. Inland, Richmond…
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Washington advises storms and blizzards are exceptionally severe this winter in the middle west. Twenty have been killed[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old-Time Racing Memories. Roughing It in the Eighties. Storm, a Hardy Old Racehorse. (By Thomas Du Froe[?])
My last contribution dealt with incidents which occurred in 1880. During the following year, going on a special trip across Riverina to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclone in France Paris
A cyclone in the department of tho Oise hag caused damage totalling £100,000 to railways, buildings and crops. It nearly wiped out the village of Fontaine and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Time Racing Memories Storm, a Hardy Old Racehorse
My last contribution dealt with inci-dents which occurred in 1880. During the following year, going on a special trip across Riverina to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Severe Storm in France. Bridges Swept Away in the Oise
"The Times" Paris correspondent says that the most severe storm ever experienced broke over the Oise. Bridges were swept away, people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. Fearful Flood at Louth. Thirty Lives Lost. Streets and Houses Destroyed. LONDON
Owing to a heavy rainstorm, the canal banks at Louth, Lincolnshire, burst. The town was flooded, and a street was destroyed. Twenty…
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Edward Lightfoot, 14½, of Rae Street, North Fitzroy, was admitted by Dr.K.D. Fairlie to the Melbourne Hospital to-day suffering from a fractured skull…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods at Louth Thirty Bodies Recovered. London, May 30
Homeless people from Louth (Lincolnshire) which, was overwhelmed by a cloud burst, have arrived at King's Cross railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Louth Flood
The damage at Louth is estimated at a quarter of a million. There are over seven hundred homeless. The river rose 10 feet in forty minutes…
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SYDNEY, Midnight.-Mr. Mares, meteorologist, stated that the prospects of great rainstorms throughout the State during the next couple of days were very…
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