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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
57 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3
The annual New Year's Day regattas, which have become famous in Newcastle, thanks largely to the zealous efforts of Mr. C. H. Hannell, would now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Great floods have occurred in the West of England. In the city of Bath a hundred flooded-out citizens are sheltered in schools,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Ras Dara, a vessel of the modern cargo-carrying type, arrived here yesterday from Taku (China) to load bunker coal prior to proceeding to Melbourne, where she will load for South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible dust storm raged for two hours to-day. The clouds of dust were so thick that absolute darkness reigned for two hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by strong wind and heavy rain, broke over Brisbane on Saturday evening last. The thunderclaps shook the buildings to their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Like all rivers flowing through alluvial plains, the lower Mississippi is a constant source of anxiety to the dwellers on its banks from the tremendous floods to which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Bennett Burieigh, the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," states that the Orange River is still flooded,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The cost of the Hunter River flood relief scheme, as estimated by the Works Department, is £890,000, compiled as follows:—Constructing training walls and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Three hundred vessels are storm-bound at the month of the Thames…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some idea of the weather on March 21 in the vicinity of Gabo, may be formed by the extracts from the log of the four-masted barque…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the gale which was responsible for the loss of the steamer Federal the barque Otago had a perilous experiences. She was bound from Kaiparn to Melbourne, and fell in with bad weather on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Great floods have occurred in Canada. The floes broke the bridge over the Goodwood River, at Richmond, and traffic on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The subject do the mitigation of floods in the valley of the Hunter has exercised the minds of the local public for years past. When the district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—A flood has occurred at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (U.S.), doing damage estimated at 3,000,000dol. (about £600,000)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamers Arawatta and Coolgardie arrived last night after very rough passages from Sydney. From Sydney Heads to Wilson's Promontory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Public Works Committee sat at the Town Hall, West Maitland, on Saturday, to take evidence in regard to the proposals now under consideration for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Pacific coast has been visited during the past few days with that kind of weather which caused some disastrous floods in parts of Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The interesting phenomenon of a partial eclipse of the sun was well seen in this district on Saturday evening by all who could bear the strong glare of the sun,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The barquentine Kate Tatham has arrived at Napier from Newcastle after a dirty passage. When entering Cook Straight at midnight on the 17th a hurricane was experienced which the captain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Irishman might say, the world is full of rare books, so often do we hear of new ones. All the same, there are rare books, and in regard to some of them one…
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