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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
319 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 16
An act of conspicuous bravery by a prospector, Mr. Walter Trahar, in rescuing his mate in a flooded mine at Canadian, near Ballarat yesterday is to be brought…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle and Hunter Valley police stations were instructed this afternoon to issue flood warnings…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods are feared in coastal district and special warnings were issued yesterday to both police and railway officials The police message was—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The postponed Menangle race meeting was to have been held to-day, but the heavy overnight rain made it necessary to postpone the fixture again until…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When a water main burst near the Darling Harbour railway yard about 2 a.m. to-day, a large quantity of water poured into the basement of the Ultimo…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The sun smiles to-day on a smiling State. The rain has come and gone. It brought untold benefits, with it,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five yachtsmen perished on Saturday afternoon, when a 50 mile-an-hour gale suddenly struck the seafront, churning the sea into a foaming cauldron…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Property owners' appeals against recent valuations are almost unanimous. THE number of appeals…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The acute intermittency of work employees of Wallsend Colliery have been experiencing for some time has been aggravated by an inflow of water to the mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With her lifeboat tackle twisted and broken, and windows high up on the bridge smashed, the Iron Knob, which left Newcastle on March 23, reached Port…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A severe electric storm broke over Kurri and Cessnock late this afternoon with hailstones as large as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Referring to the deaths of a 70-year-old golfer and his caddy, who were struck by lightning recently at Maidenhead, a Hampstead Observatory official, who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hall, which battered Richmond, Windsor and Liverpool districts last night, not only destroyed vegetable crops, but in the town district filled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Redfern was in a state of intense excitement to-night, when two elephants owned by Wirth Brothers escaped from McMahon's stables in Castlereagh-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From a sky that half an hour before was clear, maitland this afternoon experienced one of its heaviest downpours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney was plunged into semidarkness about 10.16 a.m. to-day before the breaking of an electrical storm, which deluged city and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fierce electrical storm, followed by heavy rain, which continued for several hours, struck the city shortly before midnight. Although little serious damage has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific storm, accompanied by a gale and extra vivid lightning and crashes of thunder, passed round to the north of the town yesterday afternoon. Over 300 points…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne and suburbs were plunged into darkness to-night, when a terrific thunderstorm broke over the city. Fortunately it did not last long, and no…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A severe storm was experienced in the district yesterday, a heavy fall of hail piling up 2ft deep in places on Bald Nob. Reddeston was battered by the hail. Many…
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