Flood of Mail Busy Scenes at Post Office Heaviest for Five Years
What would Christmas be without the Post-office? It is a question that must occur to anyone who stands and watches at the Newcastle Post-office this week…
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Floods & storms, 1933
458 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 23
Storm To-day at Muswellbrook Muswellbrook
Following a stormy night, during which 14 points of rain fell, an electrical disturbance passed over the town this afternoon, with vivid…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →'Quakes and Floods Deluge For The Strand
HURRICANE, earthquake and flood form the dramatic background for Deluge, the R.K.O.-Radio production, which opens at the Strand Theatre to-morrow. Peggy Shannon, Sidney Blackmer, Lois Wilson, Matt Moore and Fred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Track May, Be Soft Heavy Rain This Morning Villiers Prospects Sydney
The heavy rain this morning was hardly appreciated by trainers of topweights engaged at Randwick to-morrow…
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Referring to a recent instance of a car being struck by lightning near Murwillumbah, the chief engineer of the National Roads and Motorists' Association,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm Breaks German Nazi Church Row Pastors Send Ultimatum Berlin, December 20
The gathering storm of Opposition to Archbishop Mueller, leader of the German Evangelical National Church, broke to-day, when Pastors Bodelschwingh and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Homes Flooded Heavy Storm in Melbourne MELBOURNE
A heavy storm, accompanied by thunder, lightning, and hail, broke over the city and suburbs last night, and about 160 points of rain, was registered in an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District West Maitland Heavy Storm Parts of Lowlands Flooded
A heavy storm swept over the Maitland district late on Saturday night and city on Sunday morning. It was accompanied by occasional flashes of vivid lightning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Film of End of the World Tidal Wave and Earthquakes Deluge at Strand
Deluge, which is being shown at the Strand Theatre, is an extraordinary picture. Opening with a series of breath-taking events, with reports…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Through Fire and Storm Perilous Sea Trip in 8Ft. Dinghy Five Hours Fight Sydney
Badly burned, and forced to abandon their blazing launch off Bowen Island, late on Saturday night, two men had a nightmare…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Thirteen Deaths Serious Floods in America Fifteen Towns Inundated Seattle, December 23
Thirteen deaths are reported to have been caused by floods covering parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Thousands are homeless, 15…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Homes Were Flooded Creek Overflows in Melbourne Melbourne
With a yellow flood rolling through 165 homes in 12 streets, more than 500 people who had been driven from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Holidays Spoilt Storms in Queensland Campers Washed Out Brisbane
A tropical disturbance, which has resulted in rain since Sunday night, pratically washed out Christmas from a holiday point of view, for thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Drowned in Wreck Spanish Ship Smashed in Storm Madrid
six men were drowned when the small Spanish coastal steamer, Juana Nieto, bound from Casablanca to La Lilea, foundered during a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With the Kangaroos Under The White City Floodlights Game of "Draughts" in Paris Some Points From The Huddersfield Match (Special to the "Newcastle Morning Herald" by Harry Sunderland.) November 23
I have started this article 2000ft. up in the air on one of the four-engined Imperial Airways' liners, the Heracles, up above the gardens of Kent, on my way across from Paris with the Secretary of the English Rugby League Council (Mr. John Wilson) after one…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Melbourne Floods 500 Driven from Home Fled in Night Attire Melbourne
Thousands of pounds' worth of damage has been caused by the flooding of Kensington and Macauley, two low-lying suburbs of Melbourne and many residents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£30,000 DAMAGE Floods in Victoria Many Persons Homeless Melbourne
Damage to property during the Christmas Day floods a Kensington is estimated at £30,000. Residents set to work to-day to clear away the thick coating of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cyclone Feared Queensland's Cold Gale Steamers Held Up Brisbane
A cyclone threatens Queensland. At 9 a.m. to-day it was in longitude 151, rather intense, and seemed to be moving on a south-south-westerly course…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Seas Cyclone Off Queensland Bad Time for Campers Brisbane
The tropical cyclone which has been Causing heavy rain along the central and southern coasts of Queensland had by this morning moved further out to sea…
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