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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
98 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 5
The well-known coasting schooner Jones Brothers, employed in the Newcastle and Sydney trade, returned to port yesterday morning in a partially dismasted condition,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cuba is stated by Mr. Ellicot, of the United Staten navy, in an article in the "St. Nicholas" to be the cradle of the cyclones that travel up the Atlantic and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The weather yesterday was fine, but the influence of the recent gale was manifest by the heavy see running outside during the day. Along the coast quite a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Minister for Works has received the report of Mr. Napier Dell in regard to the various schemes, which have in past years been prepared for the mitigation of floods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The weather yesterday morning was boisterous, and although the gale had moderated somewhat there was a nasty confused sea running off Nobbys, which made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—A heavy thunderstorm passed over Aldershot to-day. The tents of the New South Wales Lancere were flooded, and the occupants…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Though during the past few days the weather has been congenial and shipping forced from the land by the recent furious gales has been given oppertunities for giving some news of itself, the barques…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—Telegrams from New York report that appalling floods occurred in the State of Texas. Territory 500 miles long and 50 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday. — Thousands of the victims of the floods in the Brazos Valley, Texas , have taken refuge on mounds, where they are huddled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Nepean River Is 7ft over Camden Bridge, about 40 miles from Sydney. All traffic is suspended…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Between 9 and 11 o'clock the gale was one of the heaviest experienced for some time as Some people in fact went so far as to says that it equalled the Cawarra gale,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The tumultuous weather along the coast that begun on Sunday night, increasing its fury on Monday, yesterday reached what old hands consider climax. The entire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The recent floods in Brazos Valley, Texas, produced a state of affairs akin to those which prevailed in Primeval times. Geological discoveries, show…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Adelaide Company's steamer Ouraka arrived this morning from Sydney for Brisbane, Townsville, and Lucinda Point, with a Heavy cargo, comprising 1000 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theo report of Mr. C. Napler Bell on the question of the mitigation of floods in the valley of the Hunter has now seen the light. The eminent engineer does not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The report of Mr. C. Napier Bell, who was instructed by the Government to inquire into the cause and probable remedies of the Hunter River floods, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The report of Mr. C. Napler Bell, M. Inst. C.E., on the prevention of floods in the valley of the Hunter is a long and valuable contribution to the already large mass of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—Disastrous floods have occurred at Santiago, the capital or Chill. A train while crossing a bridge, the supports of which the floods had weakened,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Notwithstanding the recent improvements in the storm-water channel, viz., the widening of the water-way at the Co-operative Colliery railway viaduct, and the clearing of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →What the ultimate effects of the present rainy and tempestuous weather will be to the Hunter River district remains to be be soon. The heavy rainfall of the past…
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