Petrol Ignites Flash in Storm-water Channel Four Men Seriously Hurt Sydney
Four men were seriously injured to-day when an explosion occurred in a storm-water channel in Surry Hills. Petrol had evidently seeped into the…
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Floods & storms, 1938
488 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 25
Disabled Launch in a Gale Auckland
Six persons in a disabled launch, which was drifting helplessly in a Rale off Foxton, were dramatically rescued by two other launches…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Modern Noah's Ark in a Gale Sydney
Elephants screaming while a howling gale was raging in the Tasman caused excitement on the Huddart Parker liner Wanganella, which arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disliked Gale Circus Animals on Tasman Liner SYDNEY
Fearful of the howling gale and the heavy seas which at times almost engulfed them, elephants trumpeted loudly as the Wanganella ploughed its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Rain and Floods in New Zealand Auckland
After a phenomenal spell of fine, hot weather, heavy rains in the Auckland Province have caused floods. Landslides block the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Delays Shipping Anchises Late From Brisbane
A report received in Newcastle this afternoon by John Reid Pty. Ltd., agents for the steamer Anchises. Indicates that the vessel, which was to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale on the North Coast Many Vessels Are Delayed Sydney
A southerly gale, with heavy seas, is raging on the North Coast this afternoon, and most of the coastal fleet is running behind…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Railway Flooding Deaths by Misadventure Wellington (N.z.)
A verdict that death was caused by misadventure, due to the phenomenal flooding of a stream, was returned by the Coroner at the end of the inquest into…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fierce Gale on North Coast Shipping Seriously Hampered Sydney
With the North Coast lashed by a fierce south to south-east gale, ships are running as much as two days late on the voyage from Brisbane to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Vessels Delayed Gale on North Coast MACEDON 30 Hours Late
Coastal vessels and interstate vessels bound from Northern ports were delayed on Wednesday and yesterday by a fierce southerly gale on the North Coast. Seas…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mob Violence Breaks Out in Streets of Paris Double Crisis Blum's Doom Sealed: Attempt to Storm Senate Building Paris
France is m the grip of a double crisis, political and industrial. Already there has been an outbreak of mob violence, and stay-in strikes are delaying defence work. M. Blum's fate is regarded as sealed now that the Senate's Finance…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carlisle Late Caught in Gale on North Coast
The James Patrick steamer Carlisle, of 1882 tons, arrived at Newcastle at 6.12 p.m. yesterday, almost 48 hours late. On her voyage from Brisbane she ran into…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gales and High Seas Outlook for Week-end Sydney
In a special ocean forecast, the Weather Bureau states that an extensive cyclonic depression, centred between New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NAPOLEON Storm On The Way
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Moderates in North Still Heavy on South Coast Sydney
The storm moderated on the North Coast to-day, but it was still severe to the south, and shipping schedules were affected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Serious Flood Richmond Rises 27 Feet Eight Inches of Rain in Day
With the cessation of rain this morning serious flooding has been averted in Lismore. Commencing at 5 o'clock yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Storm in Commons Non-intervention in Spain London
The charge that Germany and Italy had given enormous assistance to the Spanish Rebels, in defiance of the non-intervention…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Awatea Battered in Storm Late Arrival at Auckland Auckland
The Awatea has arrived from Sydney one day late after a tempestuous voyage. A great wave on Saturday broke the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Great Golf at Cockle Creek Small's Par Score In Heavy Rain
Playing with A. C. Brown in a four ball match at Cockle Creek against D. Payne and G. B. Carleton (Steel Works Club), the Waratah Club…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Queen Mary in Severe Gale LONDON
The liner Queen Mary was live hours Into in arriving off Plymouth Bay after the worst gale she has encountered. Out of 1200 passengers, 40 were…
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