Disastrous Flood. Damage at Lismore. SYDNEY
THERE is the highest and most disastrous flood at Lismore that has occurred for 20 years. The water entered the town at midnight on Saturday, and rose 15ft between 2…
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Floods & storms, 1892
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South-western District. Damage by Flood and Fire. SYDNEY
As the result of a petition which Messrs. Lyne and Hayes, Ms.P., presented to the Minister for Lands a few days since regarding the damage done to property in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Adelaide, Wednesday. a Heavy Gale
A heavy gale is blowing at Macdonnell Bay, and the Glenross, which went ashore there in January, 1890, is rapidly breaking up. A Customs officer has been despatched…
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She flood water is falling slowly here, but all the low-lying country is still under water. The weather is still unsettled. Heavy rain fell last night, and 300 points…
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New has been received here from Hillgrove that a terrible storm occurred there last night. The Cosmopolitan dam broke away and the water rushed down the shaft of…
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CASINO, Thursday.—The weather is fine, and the flood waters are subsiding slowly. Mail communication is being resumed. Shipping is still totally blocked. The cry…
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LONDON, Monday.—A telegram from America reports that disastrous floods have been experienced in the State of Alabama. Many persons were flooded out, and 20 cases…
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YESTERDAY evening a large flood boat was dispatched from Newcastle to the Clarence River by the steamer Australian. It is intended for the use of the Coldstream police,…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Advices received from Mauritius and Aden bring intelligence of a destructive hurricane, which visited the island on April 29. The storm was especially…
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LONDON, Friday.—There have been disastrous floods on the Missisippi and Missouri Rivers. Whole towns have been submerged, and houses with the inmates clinging to them…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The damage caused by floods in various States of America is estimated at £2,000,000…
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LONDON, Monday.—The floods in the valleys of the Missiseippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers, which have caused immense damage, are now subsiding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CABLEGRAMS. The Floods in America. Thousands Homeless
NEW YORK, Thursday.—Further details received from the country flooded by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers state that they are overflowing their banks, and…
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NEW YORK, Saturday.—A terrific cyclone passed over Kansas, wrecking the town of Wellington. Thirty persons were killed and seventy injured…
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LONDON, Sunday.—Despatches from New York give particulars of a disastrous cyclone which has been experienced in the State of Kansas. The town of Wellington, was…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A somewhat serious accident happened to a mail train in Hungary. The train while travelling at a fair speed was struck by a cyclone, and thrown…
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Heavy weather has been experienced on the New Zealand coast lately, and as a result the shipping has suffered considerably. The barquentine Jasper, from this part, was caught in a heavy gale off the…
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YESTERDAY afternoon the high level piece of railway between East Maitland and the High-street railway station was opened for the first time. It is now some two years ago…
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NEW YORK, Sunday.—Intelligence from Pennsylvania states that a terrible storm has visited the oil region of that State. The storm cloud burst, and partly swamped two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CABLEGRAMS. The Terrible Cyclone at Mauritius. Loan Required From the Imperial Government
LONDON, Sunday.—Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will ask Parliament shortly for a loan of £600,000 for the colony of Mauritius, which was recently visited by a…
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