A Transport in a Gale. 100 Horses Lost
LONDON, Saturday.—The transport Nardha lost 100 horses in, a gale between Durban and Capetown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1899
98 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 5
Flood Mitigation
The subject of the mitigation of floods in the Hunter Valley is not one which the inhabintants of his this district should willingly permit to be overlooked by the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament. Tuesday, October 24. Legislative Assembly. Questions and Answers. Hunter River Flood Prevention. Sydney
The Speaker took the chair at 4.30. Mr. FEGAN, in reply to Mr. Moore, said that the intended to introduce soon as the state of public business would permit a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Konoowarra in a Gale
Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons' steamer Konoowarra had a rough experience on her last passage from Brisbane to Sydney. A terrible sea was running, and the decks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tugela River in Flood
LONDON, Monday.—The Tugela River is flooded, and Is impeding the advance of the Boers southwards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah. the Storm
The tornado yesterday did considerable damage in Waratah, and terrified the inhabitants on every hand. There can be no doubt it is the worst gale ever known in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland District a Great Storm
Residents of the Maitland district experienced yesterday, between 1 and 2 o'clock, a storm of such a fierce nature as to arouse memories of the terrific gale which preceded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland District Tuesday's Cyclone
The damage done by the cyclone which passed over the district lying between Singleton, Maitland, and Newcastle is almost incalculable. From all parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Damaged in a Gale
Caramoney, barqrue, which left London on September 23 for Sydney, put back to Gravesend on September 30 in tow of the tug Manila. The Captain reported that the cranes on the fare-yard and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Merewether. Tuesday's Storm
The damage to property here from the effects of Tuesday's storm is chiefly confined to the upper part of the municipality, near to the reservoir. The roof of Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barque in a Gale
Ville de Rouen, French barque, bound from Port Pire to Antwerp, put into Sydney on Saturday. Twelve days after leaving South Australia the vessel enconatered a terriffc 8.W. gale, accompanied with it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District News. Minmi. the Recent Cyclone
According to the published reports of the damage done in other parts or the district by the recent cyclone Minmi seems to have been very fortunate. The damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stockton. the Big Storm
Up at the Stockton cemetery there is no evidence of the severity of the big storm on the 7th inst. A large gum tree, hollow, but before the storm still fresh and green and full…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland District a Violent Thunderstorm. Young Man Struck Dead by Lightning
The weather yesterday morning was close and oppressive, and towards mid-day there was every indication of the approach of an electrical disturbance of an unusual…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Effects of the Storm
The storm which burst over the district on Wednesday caused more damage than were at first recorded. Out at Bishop's Bridge the lightning was unusually intense,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gale at the Crozets
The four-masted barque Vimeira, which has arrived at Melbourne form Frederikstadt, Norway, reports meeting with a south-west gale of hurricane violence in the vicinity of the Crozet Islands. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Mitigation
The lack of interest displayed by successive Ministries in the subject of the mitigation of floods in the Hunter River is far from creditable to the method in which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shooting a Cyclone
It is a curious fact that Spanish guns, once turned against American soldiers at Santiago, are now protecting American territory from death and destruction by…
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