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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
673 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 34
Further heavy rain fell on the coast of North Queensland during the week-end, extending right up to Cape York. The heaviest gaugings for the 48 hours ending…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When a small photograph of flood waters at Maryville was handed to Judge Sheridan at the Quarter Sessions at Newcastle yesterday, he remarked that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A heavy rainstorm, accompanied by electrical disturbances, was responsible for the flooding of several towns on the southern railway line this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The biggest flood since 1890 occurred in Murrumburrah yesterday evening and last night. The creek which runs through the town rose more than…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three hundred and fifty-four points of rain were registered at Cessnock between midnight last night and 7 a.m. to-day. After a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A brief cyclonic storm from the south-west, which swept Coolangatta and Tweed Heads yesterday afternoon, blew three houses on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A storm of unusual severity swept over the Newcastle district early on Saturday night. A strong gale from the south-east rising at times to hurricane force, war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Following showery weather on Sunday evening, a storm broke over the Maitland district between midnight and 1 o'clock, and heavy rain set in, drenching the town…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →During a heave hailstorn last year the Singleton Intermediate High School was flooded upstairs, and the water percolated through the ceilings, flooding five…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flying-officers H. L. Piper and C. E. Kaye left Cairo yesterday for Bagdad, but were caught in a storm midway between Amman and Bagdad. They returned to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A severe cyclonic storm swept the Inverell district yesterday afternoon, causing heavy material damage in the town. Houses were unroofed, and furniture…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →According to the British spokesman, while it is frankly admitted that some of France's statistical proposals do not suit British ideas, it is an exaggeration to say that a gale has sprung up which is disturbing the surface of the conference…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Messrs. M. Bowe, W. Wills, W. Edstein, and Peacock, representing the Brisbanefield Progress Association, waited on Tarro Shire Council yesterday, and urged…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rear-Admiral Byrd's relief ship, the City of New-York, left the Bay of Whales at 9.30 on Wednesday morning. "This weather-beaten ice-sheeted, ship," said the message, "means letters and home and the way back to civilisation."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The delay in the malls is a very serious matter," said the Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department (Mr. H. P. Brown)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Torrential rain has fallen in South Australia and the disturbance is moving east-Weather Officer predicted to-day that gen-wards. The New South Wales Divisional…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Admiralty announces that during a sudden and severe storm at Nassau, in the Bahamas, last Monday, violent seas broke over the forecastle and upper deck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With music, amateur picture shows, and reading, the passengers on the east-bound train, which has been stranded at Forrest since last Thursday, have been whiling…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →We have begun to encounter scattered pack Ice much before it has been expected, and all night the ship was running before a favorable wind,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rain and gales in Great Britain a few months ago recalled to the "Sunday Times" (London) the fact that the Government found it necessary to order a…
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