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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
168 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 9
Top picture shows one of many boats that capsized in a south-west gale during Belmont 16ft. Skiff Club's Anniversary regatta yesterday afternoon. She is being towed home. Inset is the demasted Opah, which represented the North in the Australia championship recently. The race was postponed until this morning. Surf boats also struck trouble at Stockton surf carnival on Saturday, as the bottom picture shows…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anniversary Day regattas on Lake Macquarie, during the last 25 years, invariably have been held in "howling gales," as sailing men say. Stories of capsizes, "wild" rides…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At least 12 people are believed to have lost their lives in widespread floodings in Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MADRID, Jan. 26. A.A.P.—Extensive floods have interrupted the railways in several provinces. Floods from the Tagus have cut Madrid off from the south…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods are again threatening North-west districts of this State. Rivers, already high from earlier heavy rain, have exceeded the flood level in a number of places and are still rising…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy rain in Gippsland throughout last night may cause floods from the swollen rivers in South-eastern Victoria to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Weather conditions were almost back to normal in Victoria to-day. The most serious flood damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Although the mounting aggregate of losses caused by last week's foods, throughout the State in approaching £750,000, it is estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ideal weather for beach crowds was interrupted about 4.30 p.m. yesterday, when a rainstorm caught many people unprepared. There was a stampede from all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DARWIN, Monday.—While a young mother lay dying in a tin hut on Groote Eylandt, a tiny Moth ambulance plane battled its way across Arnhem Land…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For the second year in succession there are serious floods in Hungary, says "The Times" correspondent at Budapest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BUDAPEST, Feb. 4. A.A.P.—The Hungarian Minister of the Interior informed the Hungarian Parliament to-day that 492,000 acres of the country have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following weather forecasts were issued at 9 o'clock last night for the ensuing 24 hours—Newcastle, Hunter and Manning: Heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A severe cyclone with heavy rain, is expected to strike the central coast to-night. A warning has been issued to shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Officers of the New South Wales Weather Bureau said to-night that if cyclonic influences in Queensland and the Far North of this…
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →LISBON, Feb. 16. A.A.P.—A cyclonic storm swept over the city yesterday, un-roofing buildings, uprooting trees bringing down telephone and telegraph wires,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Feb. 17. A.A.P.—What is regarded as the worst gale Europe has experienced for 87 years has caused considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As a result of the recent heavy rains the low level bridge over the river at Upper Manilla, on the main road between Tamworth and Warlalda, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In Hungary 20,000 people have been evacuated from their homes under the menace of floodwaters from the Ice-choked Danube…
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