The Barque Drumalis. Experience in the Gales
The four-masted barque Drumalis, which on Sunday night was reported to be in peril off the rocks at Wreck Bay, arrived safely at Newcastle yesterday morning, after a…
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Floods & storms, 1900
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Hunter River Flood Mitigation. Sydney
In the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, Mr. Brunker asked the Secretary for Public Works:—1. Has the subject of Hunter River flood…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Northumberland Colliery Flooded
Two men were recently drowned in the workings, of the Elswick South Colliery, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the lives of 30 others placed in jeopardy. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Andania in the Gales
The steamer Andania, bound from Newcastle to Adelaide, was among the vessels that met the full force of the recent pales which were responsible for the wreck of the barque Harvester and the loss of…
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Mr. Clement L. Wragge, the prince of intellectual entertainers, will deliver one of his world-renowned lectures to-night, at 8, in the Masonic Hall. Mr. Wragge, who is…
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The anticipations of a flood in the Hawkesbury have unfortunately been realised. The river rose exceedingly fast all day on Thursday at a rate seldom seen on the…
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The Adelaide S.S. Company's steamer Kadina arrived at Sydney on Saturday to refit, having experienced a terrible time during the recent gales. The Kadina left Newcastle on Wednesday last for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Broadmeadow. the Workers on the Storm Water Channel
At noon yesterday the men employed on the stormwater channel held a meeting to decide what course of action should be taken with regard to…
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A report from Hamelin (W.A ) state that during a gale on Sunday last the barques Katinka. Norwester, and Loverpring parted their cables and went ashore Five men were lost from the Katinka,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parliament. Wednesday, July 25. Legislative Assembly. Womanhood Suffrage. Hunter River Flood Mitigation. a Contingent for China. Sydney
The Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. PETITIONS. Mr. DICK presented a petition from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prevention of Floods. Mr. C. Napier Bell's Scheme
Just a year ago to-day we published a report by Mr. C. Nepier Bell, who was instructed by the Government to inquire into the cause and probable remedy of the…
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Mr. John Gillies, M.P., continues to keep before the Minister for Works the matter of Hunter River Flood Mitigation, and in reply to recent representations has…
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The howling westerly winds which prevailed yesterday were very disagreeable, and to traverse the streets was truly dreadful. The dust rose in…
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A deputation, comprising Mr. WV. Bennett, M.P., Mr. J. Gillies, M.P., and Messrs. J. Ferris, E. Bowden, R. White, and E. J. Wynn, representing the Largs Progress…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gen. Carrington's Movements Heavy Rain in the West
LONDON, Friday.—General Carrington is skirmishing at Zeerust. At Mafeking the camp was levelled by torrents of rain. The patients have…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The recent tornado at Mafeking wrecked most of the buildings of the Mafeking Field Hospital, containing 150 patients. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Safest Place in a Thunderstorm
As a general rule, avoid sheltering under trees when overtaken by a thunderstorm out in the country. Rather put up with a drenching than run the risk of being…
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The frightful catastrophe caused at Galveston, Texas, primarily by a cyclonic storm, and secondly by a wave of portentous proportions, has created…
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Acting on representations made by Mr. J. Gillies, M.P., the Minister for Works has arranged to lay on the table of the Legislative Assembly on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Ecclesiatical Storm
An ecclesiastical storm of the first violence is raging in Australia over the sermon of Dr. Redwood, R.C. Archbishop of Wellington, N.Z., at St. Mary's, Sydney,…
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