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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
319 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 16
More than 200 are dead, and 1,000,000 dollars damage was caused by floods and fires at Canton. The rapid rise of the river menaced the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Winds of gale force were experienced in Perth and Fremantle last night, and to-day. Snow fell at Mt. Barker last night for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A severe hail-storm swept over portion of the city and inner suburbs last night and caused considerable damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The August bank holiday was largely spoilt for Londoners by a storm of remarkable fierceness. The blinding lightning and torrents of rain were at their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tarro Shire Council met at East Maitland yesterday morning. There were present—the President (Cr. J. T. B. Butler), and Crs. T. McCarthy, J. A. Niland, B…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The necessity of making an allocation to strengthen the southern bank of the Hunter at the Belmore Bridge was urged by a deputation from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The seriousness of the position to the Hunter district should Belmore Bridge at Maitland give way under the rush of floodwaters was stressed by members of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,—I notice that Tarro Shire Council recommends that the first step towards flood mitigation should be the cleaning out of the channel of the Hunter Surely…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Calcutta, August 7.—A cyclone partially destroyed the town of Letpadan, 80 miles from Rangoon, wrecking the communications over a large area, while floods…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The President of the Board of Education (Lord Irwin), speaking in London to-day, expressed the view that the economic storm of which Britain had felt the full…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Torrential rains on Saturday and Sunday caused floods of an unprecedented nature in the Midlands districts. The stretch of country most seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Official calls on the Stock Exchange to-day had to be prolonged to cope with the heavy volumes of buying orders, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An unprecedented rise in the Sungari River caused immense damage at Harbin and neighbouring villages to railways, buildings and crops. The damage is already…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The rising water level in the township of Moora to-day was the most serious feature of the floods in the midland districts. The water, which flooded Coorow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood waters at Moora are now rapidly receding, and apparently the danger to the town has passed. Multitudes of rabbits were caught by the floods and drowned,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Latest advices state that the Sungari River has risen 25 feet, and that 35,000 are believed to be dead. More than 250,000,000 acres are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The heavy floods in Burmah continue. The Rangoon-Mandalay railway was swept away in five places. One gap is 400ft. wide. Portion of Pegu and other…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Property Owners' Association is a strong advocate of the flood prevention scheme, and would welcome the expenditure of loan money in making a start with…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Following the heavy rain in the past two days, hundreds of acres of flat country surrounding the Yarra, in the suburban area, is under water, and the river itself…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A terrifying experience befel the Austin family at Stratford during a thunderstorm early this morning. The family was awakened by an explosion in a bedroom. The…
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