Cyclone at Fiji
THE 'Fiji Argus gives the following particulars of a cyclone that passed over Fiji on the 11th December:—In Levuka, the barometer, which stood…
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16 stories in New England's papers
The Rising Storm
EVENTS in Europe march with the stride of a giant, and with what musicians call a tempo accelerando, towards their destined end. Less than 18 years ago there was a Prussian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Europe to Be Flooded by Chinese
IN a thoughtful article in the Annales de Extreme Orient it is boldly predicted that before many years the Chinese question will become as urgent in Europe as it is now in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Remarkable Snow Storms in India
SOME interesting details of the extraordinary snowfall in Cashmere in 1877-78 are given in a paper in the just issued number of the Journal of the Asiatic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Flood in Russia. (From the New York Times.)
ONE of Russia's gloomiest anniversaries is the 19th of November (the 7th by her reckoning), on which St. Petersburg was overwhelmed by the most devastating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Cyclone at New Caledonia
THE Noumea correspondent of the Echo, writing under date 7th of February, sends the following account of the above :--During the night of the 23rd January the weather became so threatening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone at New Caledonia. Loss of 14 Vessels and 16 Lives. (From the Echo.) Noumea, Feb. 7
DURING the night of the 23rd Jan. the weather became so threatening that the most experienced persons felt the approach of a storm of no ordinary…
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A CORRESPONDENT of the Times writes under date, Jan. 17th :-- It is not often that news from the West Indies is at all important to science or to the general…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Snow Storms
THE Orenburg Listok says that for upwards of a mouth Orenburg has been severed from the rest of Russia by snowstorms of a severity hitherto unknown. For three weeks railway communication…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Storms in the United States
A SUCCESSION of terrible storms has recently devastated a number of the States. On Sunday, 18th of April, one of the most wide-spreading storms in the length and breadth of its course as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Balloon in a Storm
THE 'St. Louis Globe-Democrat' says:—It lacked ten minutes of four o'clock when the balloon was let go. After clearing the tree tops he opened the neck of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Minnesota Cyclone
A SPECIAL to the Pioneer Press from Minnesota says:--Yesterday a terrific storm of wind rain, lightning, and hail passed over this place About seven miles south it developed into a small…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Highland Thunderstorm
THE Elgin Courant gives some interesting details of the remarkable thunderstorm which broke over the Abernethy and Badenoch districts recently. Three hundred sheep, belonging to Mr. Watson of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Floods in Victoria. (From Monday's E. News.)
THE floods to-day are very serious. The water is higher than at any time since 1863. All the low-lying land is submerged, and thousands of people are temporarily…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Severe Storms in England
ACCOUNTS from the provinces state that the storm of wind and rain on August 7 and 8 was in many districts exceedingly heavy. In North Lancashire it fell almost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cyclone in Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamacia, September, 9.--Your readers are already in possession of many details concerning the cyclone which swept over Jamaica on the 18th of August, and from whose…
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