STORM-TOSSED Zingara in Sydney
The schooner Zingara, which left Newcastle on May 15 for Gisborne, N.Z., put into Sydney yesterday trough stress of weather. During the…
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Floods & storms, 1919
88 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 5
Disastrous Floods. Two Lives Lost. Sydney
Following upon continuous heavy rain in the north, flood conditions exist at several places. In the vicinity of Lismore the swollen waters have had most serious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flooded Mine Diver Hughes, Hero
The death of Diver Frank Hughes, which occurred on Sunday at Louth, Brisbane, recalls one of the bravest deeds over performed by a man in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lecture on Meteorology. Mitigation of Floods
Under the auspices of the Northers Engineering Institute, Mr. D. J. Mares Stats Government Meteorologist, delivered an interesting lecture in St. Phillp's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Racing a Gale Great Flight Across Atlantic Success of R34 London, Sunday Night
The Air Ministry announces that R34 landed at Fulham, in Norfolk, at 7.2 o'clock this morning. [Earlier messages from Vancouver showed that the dirigible had crossed the Irish coast at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After the Flood
Nakhichevan is reputed to be the oldest city in the world, it is situated at the foot of Mount Ararat, in a remote section of Transcaucasia, where, Armenian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Threatened with Ruin Flooded Mines London, Monday Night
The Premier announces that pumping operations have been stopped on 85 British mines which the strikers flooded, thus threatening the ruin of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Coal Trouble. Strike in Yorkshire. Flooding the Mines. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
A prolonged Cabinet meeting has been held, at which the coal situation was discussed. Two hundred thousand miners in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Coal Strike. Flooding the Mines. Miners' Great Losses. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
The Government explains that it is not attempting to use service men as strikebreakers. It took the drastic step of sending 5000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coastal Gales Week-end Rainfall
A south to south-west change reached the coast yesterday. The wind in places reached gale force. Rough seas were pretty general all along the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flooded Mines Sailors' Services Poison Gasses from the Pits LONDON, July 23
Some of the pits in Yorkshire continue to be flooded and others endangered. Sailors are working pumps on these, but there is an equally grave…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →His "Rest Cure" Storms and Wild Beasts LONDON, Wednesday Night
Advices from New York state that Mr. Scot Hayes, a son of the late President Hayes, was ordered to take a rest cure, and he proceeded to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE '57 Flood Old Incidents Recalled Maitland Inundated
Sixty-two years have elapsed to-day since the big flood in the Hunter occurred. The date was Sunday, August 23, 1857. when the river at West…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shipping Mishap Gale Causes Collision
A shipping mishap occurred at Lee Wharf this morning. The Huddart, Parker steamer Corio, which was manned after the strike yesterday in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After the Storm Calm at Trades Hall
After the storm of many weeks followed the inevitable calm. Today at the Trades Hall there was scarcely an evidence in the shape of human craft…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Rain Coast Gales Coming
Further light rain was reported yesterday from the south-eastern corner of the State, and a couple of points from the Darling between Bourke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Passing of the Storm Belgium's Quick Recovery VANCOUVER
The Canadian Government's trade correspondent who is visiting the Continent cables to Ottawa that Germ does not know where more stocks will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yesterday's Gale Rain in the South
Boisterous westerly winds reaching gale velocity prevailed in Newcastle throughout yesterday. The squalls, which attained a velocity of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rio Grande Flooding
A despatch from Austin states that the Rio Grande has overflowed its banks on the lower course, acid has spread forty miles inland, inundating a score of towns,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Airships and Thunderstorms
No one who has once been in an airship in a thunder storm, says "Icarus" in the London "Observer," has any desire to repeat the experience. It is far worse…
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