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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
673 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 34
Furious storms lashed the coast of South Africa during the week-end. The Ellerman liner, Sutton Hall, which left here yesterday with 100 live cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Buffeted by a severe storm in Moreton Bay, their boat leaking badly and sails torn by terrific winds, three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Visions of monkeys and lions being let loose on them, came to 400 people watching a tight wire act at a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London, January 2.—During a gale, reaching a velocity of 91 miles an hour, at Liverpool, 80 miles at Glasgow, and 71 at Southport, a pinnacle was blown from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The weather bureau issued the following advice at 9 o'clock to-night: "A cyclone which was located between Thursday Island and Willie Island at 9 a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How an S.O.S. from a distressed Russian steamer in the Channel almost went unanswered, owing to the confusion of Morse signals during the recent gales, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The liner Kenilworth Castle, on which the Prince of Wales is travelling to South Africa, encountered a heavy gale in the Bay of Biscay last night. The wind…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To lessen the danger of flooding in the Heart of Cessnock. estate, the Hunter Water Board, at its meeting to-day, decided to raise the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As a result of the farther heavy falls of rain on the far North Coast, the train service between Townsville and Cairns has been suspended, the water covering…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reports received by the Commissioner for Commonwealth Railways (Mr. Gahan) from his officers stationed at intervals along the 300 miles of new narrow gauge…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Arrangements are now being made fit Chatswood to form a branch of the Australian Party, the new political party recently inaugurated by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The railway services are still suspended in the Far North owing to flood water being feet deep over the rails in several places. The Tully River broke its banks…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In some centres, such as Babinda and Tully, two feet of rain has fallen since the cyclonic disturbance began on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A yard and 18 points of rain has fallen at Panngilly in four and a half days, the highest ever recorded in the district, following the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →To be marooned in a tree by floodwaters for seven hours was the unenviable experience which befell four gold prospectors in the Innisfall district during the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →More than 80 pairs of strained eyes peering from behind frosted goggles, deep in fur collars, with their owners sti[] with cold in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During a cyclonic storm at Makogai leper island on Saturday the Fiji Government's motor yacht, Lady Escott, was blown from her anchorage and sank at sea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fourteen deaths on land and 23 at sea were the toll of the great gale which raged yesterday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A gale, blowing at the rate of 120 miles an hour, is raging in the English Channel, and steamers are experiencing very rough passages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The Australians generally, were considered to be the best natural fighters in France," said Norman Graves, author of "Good-bye to All That," the book that has aroused such a storm of protests because of its charges…
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