Day's Silence Where is Opperman? Storms Were Threatening Melbourne
As more than 24 hours have elapsed since the last report was received from officials following Hubert Opperman in his record-breaking attempt, some…
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Floods & storms, 1937
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Short of Coal Helmspey's Unexpected Call Delayed by Storms
The steamer Helmspey, bound from Vancouver to Sydney with a cargo of timber, came into port unexpectedly yesterday afternoon, to replenish her coal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cyclone Coming to the Coast May Be Showers To-night SYDNEY
Despite the sunshine to-day Mr. Mares expects unsettled weather with showers to reach the coast by the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Brilliant Gallop by Floodtide at Epsom Melbourne
The Williamstown Cup candidate Floodtide created a good Impression by disposing of six furlongs, 27ft. out from the rails, on the course proper at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Memorial Floodlit Gregson Park Monument 7000 People Attend Impressive Procession Through Streets
In the presence of nearly 7000 people, the soldiers and sailors' memorial monument in Gregson Park. Hamilton, was floodlit last night. The switching-on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Floodtide Recovers Melbourne
Floodtide, who was withdrawn. from the Melbourne Cup, seems to have fully recovered. His gallon at Mentone this morning—six furlongs in 1min. 18sec., and…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Memorial Floodlit 7000 Attend at Hamilton
After a procession through the streets of Hamilton the flood-lighting of the soldiers' and sailors' memorial in Gregson Park…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →T. Webster to Ride Floodtide
Floodtide will lose nothing in horsemanship in the Williamstown Cup to-morrow. T. Webster has been engaged to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Severe Storm North American Coast Battered Freighter Sunk 23 of Crew Afloat in Open Boats (Australian Associated Press.) New York, November 13
A heavy Atlantic coastal storm badly battered the coast of North America, damaging shipping, disrupting communications, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Villagers Flee From Floods in Hungary Budapest
Unprecedented rainfall followed by disastrous floods in the Borsod County have destroyed bridges, homes and dams, 50 villages having been flooded. A SNOWSTORM during the past 24…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storms on Coast More Expected in North Five People Collapse in Heat Sydney
The Weather Bureau reported to-night that heavy thunderstorms, associated with strong winds, occurred at Kiama and Moruya late this afternoon, and at most…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Boy's Ordeal in a Cyclone Saved Life by Grim s Grip on Fence Dubbo
When he was caught in a cyclone which swept part of the Dubbo district late yesterday, Arthur Burge, aged nine,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Damage Floods in Hungary Villages Destroyed Budapest, November 14
Unprecedented rainfall, followed by disastrous floods in the Borsod Country, have destroyed bridges, homes, and dams Fifty villages and thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clung to Fence Boy's Escape in Cyclone DUBBO
A severe cyclonic storm which passed over the Dubbo district yesterday caused considerable damage to crops and property…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tugs Get Lashing in S.E. Gale Sydney
Having been awash in high seas whipped up in the S.E. gale for most of the voyage from Melbourne, the tug Swiftness reached Sydney to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Trail of Damage Cyclone Near Lismore Roof Lifted Off House Lismore
Sweeping down Hanging Rock Creek Valley, a cyclone, accompanied by a severe hailstorm, laid waste a strip of territory about two miles wide, between…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ship Captain's Harsh Ordeal Acute Appendicitis in Heavy Storm Melbourne
After a nightmare passage from Hobart the master the the tanker, James Stove, Captain O. Fllssen, who developed acute appendicitis on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flooded Town With Cash Coined In Prison
Expert forger, housebreaker, coiner, confidence man and financial trickster—that is the record of sixty-five-year-old John Wood, who under the name of Charles Waters, was sent to penal servitude for five years at Middlesex Sessions the other…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heavy Rain on North Coast Sydney
The Weather Bureau reported to-night that heavy rain wee falling at many places north of Port Macquarie. One centre reported two inches for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Rain Is Due This Evening Sydney
Indications of heavy tropical rain, which began on the North Coast yesterday, spreading to the Central Coast are strong…
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