Cyclone Disappears. Sydney
The wild and boisterous condition resulting from the cyclonic disturbance were replaced to-day by lie weather. The cyclone gradually passed eastward, and…
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Floods & storms, 1921
246 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 13
Maitland District. Flooded Lowlands
The river at the Bridge, West Maitland, reached 30½ feet yesterday, and remained at about that stage all day. The stream was moving at an unusual rate,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Furious Flood Murwillumbah Swamped Over £100,000 Damage From Whirl of Dance to Whirl of Water Murwillumball
A sudden flood swamped Murwillumball on Friday night, at 9 o'clock. A dance was in progress, and within a few hours the ball had to be used to house the refugees. It was the greatest shock the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods at Kempsey Embannkment Washed Out Train Five Hours Late
Mr. Crowe, superintendent of railways at Newcastle, hHs returned from an inspection of the North Coast line. He gives details of the delay to mail North Coast mail yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Through Three Gales in One Week
The ketch Muscot, now safety moored in Berry's Bay, Sydney. The vessel, which is of 218 tons, bad an exciting voyage from Rabaul, and during one week three gales were encountered—one of the storms bring that in which he Fitzroy and Our Jack were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Mitigation
At last night's meeting of the West Maitland Municipal Council Messrs. Pilgrim and Pender were elected delegates to represent the council at a conference of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Marooned Jockeys In Upper Rooms Three Days in Hotel Grafton Flood Experiences
A stirring story of the floods in the northern rivers is told by a party of Newcastle and Sydney jockeys, who have just returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Break Oakhampton Water Works Effect of Floods
The Water and Sewerage Board engineer reported yesterday that a break had occurred in the 22in suction pipe at the intake works at Oakhampton,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Water Supply Fails Flood Pressure Murwillumbah in Trouble MURWILLUMBAH
The Iatest flood development here is the cutting-off of the town water supply. The dam containing the water is at vMount Warning, about seven miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →English Gales Damage at Folkestone LONDON, Friday Night
The drought is accompanied by fierce channel sales. At Folkestone a mountainous wave swept over the steamboat pier, smashing a mail van to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flooded Lismore
1.—Rescued party in Keen-street, 2.—Looking cast, with the Methodist Church in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Water and Ink Paper Office Flooded
The flood on the Macleay River wan the biggest since 1893, and Kempsey was inundated In many parts. The water invaded the office of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods and Engineers
The city workers, as they come in to their daily work, have been glancing hurriedly over the stories of floods in the country. Beyond a vague feeling that it must be uncomfortable to live in a town subject to periodic invasion by flood-waters, they are not impressed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Off the Ice" Four Days of Westerly 50-Mile Gale
"There's a bush fire round somewhere" observed an optimist from the cosy depths of a thick overcoat this morning, adding with deep…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned in Flood
At West Mattland court house yesterday afternoon the deputy coroner, Mr. W. McLauchlin, held an inquest concerning the death of Lindsay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Killed by Gale Death at Waratah Blown Off Roof
A man named Thomas Delanoy, of 95 Maitland-road, Mayfield, was working this afternoon on the roof of a shed at the works of Newbold's Silica…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dust-laden Gale Westerly Wind Plays Havoc Unknown Vessel in Distress "Bar Dangerous" Signals all Night
Captain Fergus Cumming, Superintendent of Navigation, received the following wireless message late last night:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Mitigation Conference on Saturday Combined Movement
A comprehensive scheme for the mitigation of Hunter River flooding will be considered by a big conference to meet at west Maitland town hall next…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Westerly Gale
The westerly gale which prevailed yesterday was in full force over the Maitland district driving clouds of dust before it, unrooffing houses and sheds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flooded Sewers Effects of Storm Water
Wickham Council had before it last night a report from the Hunter District Water and Sewerage Board, on the [?] od manholes by…
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