Great Storm at Lake Macquarie
A CORRESPONDENT informs us that on Friday last an almost unprecedented gale swept over portions of Lake Macquarie. Large trees were blown down, and branches…
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Floods & storms, 1885
39 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
Floods in the Northern Territory
PORT DARWIN, Friday.—The up-mail from Southport and the down-mail from Katherine reached Port Darwin camp at noon yesterday, each being three days late…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The thunderstorm on Saturday was very severe. Several houses were struck by lightning. A. cab driver named Joseph Bedford and his horse were…
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WALGETT, Wednesday.—£3000 worth of damage was done by the late storm at Walgett…
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SYNDEY, Wednesday.—There has been another flood at Cootamundra. The temporary line was washed away, and the through traffic is again stopped…
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COOLAH, Tuesday.—A terrific storm, accompanied by the most vivid lightning and the heaviest thunder known here for years, passed over Coolah yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—There have been heavy gales in Auckland. The steamer Thomas Russell, belonging to the Waikato Cal Company, and valued at £10,000, was…
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HOBART, Saturday.—A terrific gale from the north blew here on Thursday night. Several small crafts broke from their moorings in the harbour,…
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OVER and over again has the truth of the assertion, "History repeats itself," been proved beyond the possibility of refutation. Similar causes have…
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BOURKE, Wednesday.—A heavy thunderstorm broke over this district yesterday, and a copious rainfall resulted, filling the tanks and waterholes, and rendering…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A destructive storm took place at Norfolk Island on March 16, destroying the crops, blowing the roofs off the houses, and uprooting trees in all…
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A tale of the damage wrought by the recent southerly gale in told by Captain Henry Stubbs, of the steamer Glaucus, from Newcastle, bound to Lyttelton (N.Z.), which put in to Port Jackson on…
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HOBART, Friday.—The Irby, iron ship, Edward Stewart, master, which left Port Pirie, South Australia, on April 19, bound for the coast of Ireland with 2200 tons of…
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ON Saturday afternoon last a sailing vessel in a distressed and apparently sinking condition was observed away to the north-east of South Head. The pilot steamer Captain Cook at once went out,…
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MISS Mary Anderson is said to have had a curious experience during a visit of many days to Stratford-on-Avon, before commencing her engagement at…
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Brief mention has been made in our columns of a terrific cyclone which (says the "Echo" of 23rd inst.) occurred at Tamatave on the 25th of February last. The "Creole" of Reunion gives full…
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There seems to have been a terrific storm in the North Atlantic between Saturday night, April 4, and Sunday morning, April 5. The steamer Germanic, the largest of the White Star Line,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Severe snow storms have occurred in Victoria, and there is heavy weather along the coast. A thunderbolt fell at Wilson's Promontory. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frank Calvary! a Semi-nautical Novel Chapter Xxxiii. Harry overboard—Our hero saves his life—Orders for sailing homewards—The storm—The frigate is driven on snore— Frank's narrow escape—The rafts—Attack upon the French troops—Combat between Frank and the French officer—Tremendous slaughter—Repulse of the troops—The rafts put to sea—A vessel of war is sighted—The disappointment; and its result upon our hero
ONE night, about two years after the events narrated in the last chapter, all hands were called to shorten sail, as a squall was brewing to windward…
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THE M.M. steamer Peiho brings intelligence of the wreck of the British steamer Speke Hall in a cyclone, about 180 miles this side of Aden. All…
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