N.Z. EARTHQUAKE Cyclone Causes More Damage Wellington (N.z.)
The earthquake damage at Westport is estimated at £150,000, Palmerston North was struck yesterday afternoon by the most severe cyclone…
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Floods & storms, 1929
473 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 24
Motor-cycling News: Club Notes Indian Club Gale Pulls Down Speeds
Saturday's westerly gale had an adverse effect on the speeds in the Newcastle. Indian Club's flying one-eighth of a mille. Highest speed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After Two Days Missing Persons Found Caught in Snow-storm Melbourne
After being lost for 48 hours in a snow-storm on the Australian Alps, a party of searchers came upon Mrs. E. Piper, of Parkville, and her guide, W. Spargo, for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Death Roll Japanese Mine Flooded Tokio, June 26
Forty eight miners were trapped by inFollowing sea-water in the Khu Shin Coalmine. A resume squad, the number of which is uncertain was also out off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fixing Floods
Wickham Council has laid down a line of pipes from the intersection of Union and Bishopgate streets, Wickham, to the harbor to prevent…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Flood Havoc CALCUTTA
As an aftermath of the Assam floods, three tigers were washed down to the sea, near Akyab Creek. Two dead elephants were washed away in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Floods in Assam Heavy Toll of Life No Trace of 100 Villages Calcutta, June 26
Floods in Assam are still taking a toll of life, and relief parties, in boats, are trying desperately to reach marooned and starving villagers with food supplies. It…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Rains Police Warning Manning Area Gales Along Coast
The superintendent of the North-east Police Division (Superintendent Beatty), to-day issued flood warnings to police in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Short of Coal Steamer Makambo Caused by Gales Horse Boxes Used For Fuel SYDNEY
Horse boxes and other fittings were broken up and the wood fed to the fires when coal ran low on the Island steamer Makambo, on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another Storm Sydney
The visiting season for the elements is now open. New South Wales, the unwilling hostess, was visited by a tropical…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blaze at Ballina Gale Helps Destruction
With a howling gale blowing and heavy rain falling, a disastrous fire broke out in Ballina at 2 a.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tragic Week-end the Richmond River District Flood at Lismore Threatens Town Fire at Ballina; £30,000 Damage Fatality Feared at Bangalow Lismore
Seldom has the Richmond River district known a week-end as disastrous as that just passed. All Saturday a 70-mile-an-hour gale tore through the district, driving before it torrential rain, that resulted in flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wild Week-end North Coast Floods Abate One Man Missing Lismore
After a wild week-end, the floods in the Richmond and Tweed areas are receding. Floods, gales, fires, and, it is feared, tragedy, made the blackest week-end in the recent history of the Richmond River…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipping Delayed Storm-Battered Vessels SYDNEY
Heavy weather over the Tasman Sea and along the North Coast is disorganising shipping. Storm-battered ships limped into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waters Recede Richmond Floods Trail of Destruction LISMORE
After reaching the maximum height of 29ft Bin at Lismore, the flood waters in the Richmond liver began slowly to recede after mid-day. At first the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Victim Floods on Richmond Refugees Return Lismore
The flood in the Richmond River has apparently claimed another victim. It was reported last night from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AMPHIBIOUS! Studebaker's Flood Test
Executive of Studebaker (Sydney), Ltd., claims that an incident which occurred at The Bluff, between Glonreagh and Grafton, on the North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ship's Battle with Cyclone
The steamer City of Brisbane which reached Sydney from Brisbane yesterday, encountered the full force of the cyclonic disturbance which raged off the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fought It Out In the Grip of the Cyclone Vessel in Peril Sydney
Captain G. Grelixek, master of the Swedish steamer Roxen, which reached port last night four days out from Brisbane, will now be able to paint a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lismore Floods Two Bodies Recovered Lismore
The bodies of two flood victims, Roy Ward, of Bangalow, and Joan Maclcan (1[?]), of Codrington, were recovered to-day…
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