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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 13
AN important shipping insurance case has just come under our notice, which, no doubt, will prove of interest to shipowners and others connected with maritime affairs. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MEETING of the general committee of the Hunter River District Flood Relief Fund was held yesterday afternoon in Mr. H. H. Lang's auction mart, Scott-street. Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The B.I.S.N. Company's steamer Goorkha had a perilous time of in the Hooghly during at cyclone last month. It seems that the Goorkha had come down the Hooghly as far as Sangor, when she was stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible cyclone struck the steamer Bullara on her way from Adelaide to Albany, in the Australian Bight. The steamer in 16 hours made only 5 miles headway. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Friday.—A cyclone swept across a part of the State of Iowa, causing immense damage and loss of life. The town of Pomeroy, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A TELEGRAM from Louth states that during the last few days steady rain has been falling, and there is now every appearance of a big fall. Great anxiety is felt there in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the Newcastle Central Committee of the Flood Relief Fund was held at Mr. Lang's auction rooms yesterday afternoon. There were present: Messrs. C. Upfold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOR many years past the residents of Hunter-street West, in the vicinity of Darby-street, have during wet weather been subjected to most unpleasant experience, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MUCH to the astonishment of people generally in Maitland the Hunter River is again in fresh, being up yesterday morning to a height of some 21ft above the ordinary level…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The road from the A.A. Company's bridge right away up for a considerable distance past Tattersall's corner at about half-past 12 o'clock presented the appearance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CALCUTTA, Monday.—Advices from Kashmir report the occurrence of severe floods, accompanied by great loss of life, half of Srinagar, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE largest and most valuable area of land formed by the delta of the Hunter River is Ash Island, which extends from Dempsey Island to Hexham, a distance of some seven…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE final meeting of the Central Flood Relief Committee was held at Mr. H. H. Lang's rooms, Scott-street, yesterday afternoon. Alderman Moore,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Colonist, bound from Wallaroo to Newcastle, put into Hobson's Bay yesterday morning in a disabled condition. The vessel met a heavy gale with high seas after leaving Wallaroo. She lost two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE operations of the Central Flood Relief Committee have now been concluded, greatly to the relief, doubtless, of the citizens who have given so much of their time and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE of the most interesting towns in the colony is Morpeth, for the simple reason that it has an eventful history. Originally laid out to be the most important centre in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday.—A disastrous flood has occurred at Eperies, Hungary. Fifty persons were drowned. Hundreds of families have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Heavy weather is being experienced in the Baltic Sea occasioning much damage to shipping. Several fishing vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →REPORTS have reached New York that a cyclone struck Pomeroy, Iowa, sweeping away half the buildings in the town. One hundred people are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A LULL which both succeeds a storm and yet preludes another tempest has occurred in Parliament. The Assembly has latterly been devoting itself to the…
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