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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 13
NEWS has at last been received from Brisbane. A special reporter of the Queensland Times, who started from Ipswich for Brisbane on Monday at daybreak in a boat,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy gales are reported all round the east. Bellrive railway station, the Hobart terminus of the Sorrell line, has been blown into the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AFTER our report of the proceedings in the Assembly last night bad concluded, the consideration of the Mining on Private Property Bill in committee was continued, and at 2.30…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE heaviest and most disastrous flood ever known in the history of Queensland took place on Sunday last in the south-eastern portions of the colony, including the towns of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cyclonic gale has occurred in Tasmania, travelling at a rate of 57 miles per hour, blowing telegraph wires down, injuring houses, and sweeping away orchards. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.—During the last few days storms of terrific violence have been prevalent in the Atlantic, giving rise to some anxiety for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE drizzling rain which set in on Friday night continued on Saturday. Towards the afternoon the rain came down more heavily, and with unabated force continued through…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A RESIDENT of Brisbane during the past 44 years, writing on Tuesday last respecting the floods, says:—It is heartbreaking to look from the house on any side, for, as far as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE year 1893 threatens to be a memorable one so far as floods in Australia are concerned. Since the settlement of the country by free…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CAPETOWN, Monday.—Advices received from the Transvaal report serious floods extending over a large area. The consequences have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AFTER a couple of days' fine weather ran again set in in the Brisbane, Ipswich, and Logan districts yesterday. All the low-lying lands in the suburbs are again…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the rear of South Grafton there is a great body of water reaching in some places to the eaves of the houses. The river overflowed its banks at two places below…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR JAMES GARRICK, the Agent-General for Queensland, has published a telegram from Sir Samuel Griffith, stating that it is not necessary to appeal to the public for aid for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The flood waters are slowly receding the town. The farmers in the district m[?] be great sufferers, hundreds of acres of a[?] cultural land, carrying maize and sugar[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE people of Brisbane are still hopeful that there will be no recurrence of the floods; although heavy showers are falling at intervals again to-day. This morning's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RAIN continued to fall in Brisbane and outlying districts yesterday, last night, and this morning, and the rivers continued to rise. The River Brisbane had risen slightly this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The rainfall here during the past 24 hours amounted to 560 points. It is still raining steadily. The river is now up 26½ft and rising 6in an hour. The lower part of the town…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE damage caused by the recent flock on the tributaries of the Hunter River is daily proving oven mere serious than was expected. Most of the farmers along the banks…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An additional £400 was forwarded to-day by the Queensland Floods Relief Committee. RETRENCHMENT. Owing to the curtailment of public works,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MESSAGE received at the electric telegraph office last night stated that Grafton was still under water. KEMPSEY, Saturday…
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