H.m.s. Raven in a Cyclone
H.M.S. Raven arrived in Port Jackson at halfpast 8 o'clock on Thursday evening from Noumea and anchored in Watson's Bay for medical inspection. The Raven was recently recommissioned in…
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Floods & storms, 1887
24 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
Heavy Thunder Storm
AT twenty minutes past two o'clock yesterday afternoon a terrific thunder storm broke over Newcastle. Heavy clouds previously were banking up from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →How to Avoid Danger in Thunderstorms
THE chief danger incurred by human beings and other living animals is due to their bodies being better conductors than some objects, such as trees and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Floods and Loss of Life in Brisbane
FOR some days past telegraphic communication has been interrupted with Brisbane, and we now learn that disastrous floods have occurred all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods in Queensland and the North. Fearful Destruction in the Richmond District
DISTRESSING accounts arrive of the disastrous floods in Queensland and throughout New South Wales generally, but specially in the northern portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Floods. Clarence River. (Daily Telegraph.)
ON Thursday morning, 20th inst., it commenced raining, and in the afternoon it rained very heavily. During Thursday night a heavy downpour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Queensland Floods
The Brisbane correspondent of the Daily Telegraph telegraphs on Thursday last:—Further details of the distress in the Lowe Logan district by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Grafton Floods
THE police report the drowning of William Taylor, near Ulmarra. The body has been recovered, and is now at his father's residence. At Southgate, where the farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods at Grafton
THE following letter received by one of our staff from his home in Grafton will give our readers some idea as to the depth of the flood, and to some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in the Hunter SINGLETON, Friday 8 p.m
THE river has risen 32 feet, and is still rising about 6 inches per hour. It breaks over the banks at 42 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Leura and Katoomba in the Recent Storm
THE steamers Leura and Katoomba, which (says the Brisbane Courier) arrived here on the 15th inst. from Sydney, the former early in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland. Brisbane, Monday. Disastrous Cyclone
A terrible cyclone was experienced at Normanton on Saturday, lasting 12 hours. Every building in the town was more or less destroyed, and some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Born to Be Drowned. Chapter I. What Came in the Storm
SIR DAVENPORT LOCKSLEY was a man of some five-and-forty years. His hair had become frosted with the winters of the mind rather than the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Furious Gale
THE P. and O. R.M.S. Kaisar-i-find, with passengers and cargo, arrived in Hobson's Bay on Sunday morning. The steamer (says the Melbourne Telegraph) left London at noon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Clouds
Diplomatic notes of a threatening nature were despatched on Monday last to the Porte by France and Russia, directed against the proposed…
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THE heavy rain that has descended at Tamworth during the past few days has had the effect of raising the river at that place considerably, and yesterday evening it was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. the Floods in Victoria
The floods in the S[?]pparton district show no signs of abating. The Murray at Echuca has risen a foot since Saturday, and Campaspie two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Gale
ONE of the heaviest easterly gales, that has been experienced on the coast for a long time past occurred on Friday and Saturday, and was accompanied with a high sea; but so far…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Australia. Adelaide, Saturday. Gale and Wreck
A severe storm raged over the city and southern parts of the colony. In the Port River several ketches were blown on shore. The Norwegian…
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A great storm raged over the English Channel last night, causing many shipwreekrs. Several fatalities rare reported on land…
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