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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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THAT " out of evil cometh good" has been often enough demonstrated, and a recent instance of this has been brought under our notice by Mr. David Henderson, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During electrical disturbances it seems that cream and milk are put into a condition to sour essily. The probable cause of this is as follows: The effect of an electrical…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—Would it be asking too much of the Tuckurimba and Bunga walbyn Progress As sociations to tell us what good they expect from flood gates being put on the drains into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE rain of last Saturday morning was very heavy, and the floodgate seemed to have been opened, and the water fell in what was little less than a huge sheet,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE A.U.S.N. Co's Victoria, Captain Cald[?]r, which left for Noumea on March 5, had a very perilous voyage. On March 8 the wind began to freshen with a high sea running, and a falling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. W. YABSLEY'S well-known brigantine Lady Franklin arrived at Coraki last week; and, as she was out in and suffered severely by the late gale, we publish the following memorandum of the voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAPTAIN TULLOOM, of the steamer Tweed, reported on his arrival in sydney last trip that the steamer was for eight daye exposed to the full brunt and fury of one of the heaviest gales and seas he has experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ACCOUNTS are to hand at Cairns of the loss of at least 500 cattle on Mulgrave and Russell Rivers by the recent floods. Mr. Peterson, of Aloomba, lost over 200 horses,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—The following letter on the above subject was received by me, with permission to use it as I wished, and I will, therefore thank you to publish it as substantiating statements made by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SANDGATE, on the coast near Brisbane, experienced the full force of the tremendous gale on Monday night, 8th inst. which was unprecedented in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TELEGRAMS received in Sydney last Saturday reported great floods in all directions. The town of Bungendore is under water. A pertion of Wagga Wagga is in total…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TELEGRAM from Sydney on Monday last says:— Appalling accounts have been received from many parts of the country, of great destruction of property through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE was a terrible flood in the Murrumbidgee on Sunday. That morning it reach 36ft. 6in., or within 2ft. of the memorable flood of 1885, on which occasion the old…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE largest flood since 1874 has visited Te[?]ra. The river came over in three places, at 2.30 Thursday morning, and the wh[?] town was soon submerged to a depth of 3ft.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A VERY tragic affair occurred at Albury on Monday night, when an elderly man, whose name is unknown, was drowned in the Murray. The man was seen in Dean-street about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT Walhalla, the heaviest flood since the settlement of the place was experienced. The lower end of the township was submerged for several hours without material…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FROM the record o[?] the K[?]ma [?] it appears that the aggregate rainfall for the past four weeks has been 17-23 inches, and of this quantity 11-60 inches fell during the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE continuous rain which fell resulted in heavy floods, doing considerable damage. Owing to the high westerly winds the waters have been banked up at the mouth of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the South Melbourne Council the town clerk read a it port showing that 379 houses in South Melbourne were inundated. At a public meeting in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON the night of the 2nd instant, between 7 and 11 o'clock, Walhalla was visited by the heaviest flood ever experienced. The rain commenced on Saturday night. Stringer's…
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