North-western Floods. Trains Interrupted. Sydney
Very heavy rain has fallen over the greater portion of the north-western district, and all the waterways are rising so rapidly that heavy floods are…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
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Very heavy rain has fallen over the greater portion of the north-western district, and all the waterways are rising so rapidly that heavy floods are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The curious scientific problem, "Do comets cause floods?" is raised by a correspondent of the "Express," who calls attention to a series of curious…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All fears of a recurrence of floods [?] Paris have now passed away. The Seine has fallen 20ft and the [?]teamboats have resumed running on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following special weather advices were issued by the Weather Bureau this morning:— Advices from Townsville indicate that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Department has received advice that the flood waters are three feet over the O'Connell Creek bridge on the Richmond line, and that the river at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For the second time this year the city is in the throes of flood, and the present visitation is likely to prove more disastrous than its predecessor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy floods are reported from Northern Queensland. The Railway Department this afternoon received the following telegram from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Department has received a report from Rockhampton that the flood waters at Emerald are 12 inches over the rails. The water at Nogoa is 7ft 9in over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advices from Rockhampton state that the weather continues fine. The Fitzroy fell until this morning, when it again began to rise, and with the back waters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Commissioner telegraphed from Rockhampton to-day that he was able to get through to Rockhampton, although the water is 8 inches over the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All reports from Paris have dwelt on the tragedy of the flood. We read of 50,000 sufferers at Ivry, of bread going up in price: of flooded wine cellars,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Thallon, the State Commissioner for Railways, returned to-day from Rockhampton, where he was directing operations for the restoration of the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The tropical disturbance which has been hovering over the State during the past week or two has made things interesting in the north, central, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The floods in the Rockhampton district on Friday night passed the highest point reached by the flood earlier in the year, and the river is now rising more rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Although to-day was observed as a close public holiday, and gloriously as a weather prevailed, no sports or races were held owing to the flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A heavy gale began on Monday morning with a hurricane. The wind increased during the day with drizzling rain. The barometer fell fast during the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six hundred men of the Wiltshire Regiment, accompanied by Lord Methuen, the Governor, left Pietermarltz-burg, in Natal, to surprise a militia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fierce storms and heavy rains continued throughout the North Island yesterday. On Wednesday a hurricane swept over the town of Paeroa, and the rain soon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Although the weather conditions have vastly improved since last week and much finer weather now prevails, the atmosphere still is not settled,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A terrific cyclone has swept over the towns of Rheims and Chalous, in France, causing great damage. In the latter city the workshops of…
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