Destructive Storm on the Manning
THE cyclone which recently passed over this district, and did such damage further north, appears to have travelled right up the coast. Fortunately it was…
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Floods & storms, 1892
18 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
Floods and Earthquakes in New Zealand
The Manapouri, which arrived in Sydney last week, from New Zealand, brings lengthy reports of the recent floods in that colony. The floods were confined…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Under Sentence in Norfolk Island: Authentic Records. No 2. the Cyclone
In the previous convict sketch it has already been stated that the morning on which Townshend was ordered to undergo his punishment was a peculiarly gloomy and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, 6th APRIL. 1892. Flood Thoughts
AT the present time the damaging effects of floods are brought very tangibly before the people of this district. It is the high floods which work destruction, and unfortunately the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →High Flood at Lismore. Within an Inch of Highest Record. One Man Drowned. Buildings Swept Away
THE heavy rain of Friday, reported in last issue was followed by still heavier rain after we had gone to press, and during Friday night the wind increased until towrds daylight the gu[?]ts were of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Effects of the Recent Flood
FOLLOWING the recent freshet and subsequent short spell of beautifully fine weather, and just as we were congratulating ourselves on fortunately escaping…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Destructive Flood. The Highest Ever Known
LAST Thursday night a strong easterly gale, accompanied by very heavy rain set in, and continued up to Sunday without intermission. Following the frehet of teh…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Late Flood
THE idsses generally from the flood are heavier than we thought they would be in our last issue. Among business people Messrs Calverley, Simpson, and Allen we hear, are the heaviest losers, but others…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in North of Scotland. Strathglass after the Flood
THE "Beautiful Glen" has been defaced and almost effaced, in an agricultural point of view, for many years to come by the disastrons flood of 29th January last. Indeed, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood on the Tweed and Brunswick Rivers
VERY heavy rain set in on Friday 1st, and continued throughout Saturday A southerly gale sprang up at midnight on Friday, and blew with hurricane force for 12 hours, lovelling the maize…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Damage on Farms
Now that flood waters have subsided farmers have an opportunity of gazing upon the sad wreck many of their holdings present, and while estimating…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Story of a Flood
A PATHETIC story is associated with the little village of Suss, in the Lower Engadine, a wild bleak valley of Switzerland. One day a flood, caused by the melting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in America
A TELEGRAM from New York on Wednesday last reports that immense damage has been done in the county and town of St. Louis, Missouri, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cyclone at Mauritius
NEWS from Mauritius has been received to the effect that a cyclone destroyed one third of the city of Port Louis, on April 29. The principla public buildings, including 24 churches and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Storm at M[?]
THE cable news has already contained brief intelligence respecting the remarkable b[?] at Port Louis, Mauritius. The detailed account of the storm is now to hand. Hitherto the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Vessel Heaving To. A Nautical Operation Fraught With Great Danger. The Perils of a Storm on the Ocean—Laying Alo[?]t in a Howling Breeze—How a Ship Weathers a Gale—Cutting Away the Masts
The operations of "heaving to," performed by nearly every sailing vessel caught on the coast during a storm, is never resorted to by merchant vessels until it becomes absolutely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Vessel Heaving To/ A Nautical Operation Fraught With Great Danger. The Perils of a Storm on the Ocean Laying Aloft in a Howling Breeze—How a Ship Weathers a Gale—Cutting Away the Masts
The operations of "heaving to," performed by nearly every sailing vessel caught on the coast during a storm, is never resorted to by merchant vessels until it becomes absolutely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fifty Million Dollars Lost by American Floods
THE losses by the recent groat floods on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers have been estimated at $50,000,000. Here are the items: Missouri—Wheat and corn destroyed, 500,000…
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