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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
171 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 9
MOST extraordinary landslips in consequence of the late rains and floods have occurred at Minden, one of the farming centres in the Rosewood scrub, which gave rise to a report…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The highest level of the late flood at the Post-office Wharf was 12½ft above high water at ordinary spring tides, and 5ft 7½in above the big flood of January, 1887. The lower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The barque Cornelia, from Sourabaya, arrived in Hobson's Bay on Friday. She left Sourabaya on 7th January, and carried north-west monsoons to Bally's Straits. She was then becalmed for three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Brisbane correspondent wired yesterday that news had reached Brisbane announcing the foundering of the steamer Palmer, one of the Aust. United S.N. Co.'s boats. From the meagre…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT intervals of a few years the towns of Northern Queensland have all suffered more or less from the cyclonic winds which blow with terrible force in that latitude…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DURING the late rainfall, when the disastrous floods at Maitland occurred, the large open drain was found ample to prevent the flats from being flooded, but the continuous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The rains in the south-western districts during the last few days have been heavy and continuous and the town of Roma is under flood. Many people have been flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE residents of Nelson-street, on the west side from the bridge to John-street, have again experienced the effects of the storm waters, the whole of the land being covered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The heavy rain which fell during Monday and Tuesday morning early flooded the low-lying lying portions of the district, and caused considerable damage. Mr. G. Cockburn's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE cyclone has caused great destruction to property at Townsville. Upwards of 20 inches of rain fell between Monday and to-day. On Monday it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME further particulars have been received concerning the terrible storm which occurred in the latter part of January in Japanese waters. It is gleaned that at Tokio the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Friday.—A cyclone has devastated the Ohio Valley from Cincinnatti to Cairo, and has proved an appalling disaster at Louisville, where 300 houses were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—The property-owners of the south-west side of Nelson-street, Plattsburg, have suffered considerably from time to time through the flooding of their properties, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THAT afternoon the whole vicarage party walked up to the farm to inspect another litter of young pigs. It struck Geoffrey, remembering former…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE Fitzroy River floods are becoming very serious. The water has risen over a foot since yesterday, and is now running two feet deep in East-street, Rockhampton. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE residents of St. George have had to leave their houses and take refuge on a sand-ridge. The whole town is submerged, but no lives have been lost. The Government to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Capetown papers to hand by the s.s. Aberdeen mention the arrival at Capetown of Captain S. G. Jorgensen, on his adventurous voyage to Australia in the S[?]orm King, a small craft intended to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEW YORK, Tuesday.—A cyclone has demolished Propetstown, in the State of Illinois, and many fatalities have been reported. The wires are now down, and fuller…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE floods at Walgett are gradually subsiding, but more water is coming down. The losses is stock have been most disastrous, and thousands of dead carcasses are floating down…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE River Darling has been steadily rising for the past few days and on Sunday afternoon was 40ft 2in at Bourke. The embankments which had been erected around the…
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