Oil During a Storm
The whalling barette Johit and Winthrop, on a voyage from Okotsk Soa to San Francisco, encountered two storms. The first gale raged during the three days of…
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Floods & storms, 1908
97 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 5
Storms in Queensland. Heavy Rainfalls. Brisbane
Steady rain set in at Townsville yesterday evening and continued almost uninterruptedly throughout the day The barometer, which is falling slowly, at four…
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The Railway Commissioner have received information from the north to the effect that traffic has been suspended on the Ayr tramway owing to portions of the…
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Magnificent rains have, during the past five or six weeks, been experienced in almost every part of Queensland, with the result that everywhere the country…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Explorers in a Gale. Auckland
The Antarctic exploring ship Nimrod encountered a series of heavy gales while under tow of the steamer Koonya. One pony was thrown on its back and killed…
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The four-masted barque Wendur, which arrived at Sydney from Port Nolloth on Monday night, experienced the force of the recent gales. She arrived off Sydney last…
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Particulars have been received of the rough trip of the Moerako on her last run from Sydney to New Zealand. The passage to Wellington occupied four days seven…
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New has been received that the steamer Inga, which left Newcastle on January 31 for Auckland, met with severe weather Shortly after leaving Newcastle the vessel…
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A telegram from Barcaldine states that a cyclone visited the town on Sunday evening, which caused much damage to buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Pittsburg. Great Damage Done. London
Floods in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, have temporarily rendered 20,000 workers idle. Many persons fled from the rising…
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The heavy rainfall which has been experienced during the last couple of days will be the means of doing immense good throughout the district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hunter in Flood. a Sea of Water. Maitland
The showery weather of last week culminated on Saturday evening in the heaviest downfall of rain that has been experienced in West Maitland since the 9th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gale in England. Terrific Hailstorms. London
A gale occurred in the Midland and North-west of England and in Ireland on Saturday. Three grandstands were unroofed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Rainfall. Twelve Inches Registered Flooding in Newcastle. Rescues in Boats
The heavy rains which act in on Saturday night continued yesterday. In the early hours of the morning there was a terrific downpour and 5 inches and 25…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hunter in Flood. All Lowlands Covered
Although the towns of East and West Maitland have escaped the disasters of a flood all of the low-lying hands within a radius of ten miles, and in some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hawkesbury in Flood. Windsor
The Hawkesbury River has risen 6ft. and although the flooded arms of the river have causes the main stream to swell over swamp lands and other low-lying parts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods on the Hunter. the River Falling
The river continued to fall yesterday, and at 3 p.m. had reached the 22ft mark, remaining at that level until the evening. All areas flooded directly by the overflow from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. the Flood
The river fell to 19 feet at eight o'clock last evening, and had receded from the greater part of the flooded area about Morpeth and East Maitland, but was still…
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Information has been received of serious floods in the Lower Hawkesbury. Most of the streams overflowed their banks, extensive damage resulting to…
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LONDON, Monday.—The R.M.S. Victoria, from Sydney January 18, had a terrible passage from Gibraltar to Plymouth. Friday night was the…
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