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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
20 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
A DISASTROUS storm has been experienced at Townsville Queensland. Twelve small vessels were wrecked, and the steamer Aramac was blown on the reef, where she remained for 24 hours; subse…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A LATES message from Townsville states that the cyoloue began to be serious on Sunday evening at dusk, when beets of iron flew about in all directions from rhe roofs of houses, and were whipped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE particulars to hand concerning the terrific gales on the Queensland coast, mentioned in our telegrams last week, show that they were the most serious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WIRES from Rockhampton on the 6th instant, reported the rising slowly. but steadily, and many inhabitants who had not left their house on the occasion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →REPORTS received to-day from the Bourke district show a phenomenally heavy full of rain, and miles of country under water. A cloud burst over Ford's Bridge, 40 miles north-west of Bourke, the water…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHILE the people in these districts are basking in the prospects of rich harvests its a result of a glorious season, and are hopeful that the devastation caused by flood will escape them…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT will be remembered that some months ago the Minister for Works (Mr. J. H. Young) authorised an examination of the Hunter River, with a view of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following letter has been received by Mr. Jas. M'Aughey, Secretary Tuckurimba Progress Association, from the Chief Engineer, Water Conservation, &c., Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING the recent floods in Central Queensland some anxiety was felt in Rockhampton for a Chinaman who keeps a garden out Gracemere way. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unparalleled snow storms are reported from towns along the central highlands. Eighteen inches fell in the vicinity of Mittagong and Bowral. All aloing the southern line it is fall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I am requested by Mr. R. Pyers, M.P., to forward the enclosed to you for publication in your valuable paper, for general information.—Yours, &c,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A ST. LOUIS telegram to the San Francisco GALL, dated 27th May, says.â"The most disastrous cyclone in the history of the city visited this section to-day. Hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SHORT time ngo we published some details of the death and destruction caused by the cyclone which passed over the large city of St. Louis, U.S.A.; on May 27th. In papers whioh have since come to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Lubra, which left Sydney on Thursday last for Tonga, returned on Saturday through stress of weather, and the appearance of the vessel showed that she had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE steamer Lubra was in the thick of the gale off the coast last Thursday night. Since she was launched 20 years ago at Hayle, in Cornwall, she has come through many a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A CONFERENCE of delegates from the different townships on the river was held at the Council Chambers here on Saturday forenoon to consider the above matter. There were present representatives as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A VERY heavy storm swept over Paris on the last Sunday of July. Besides the rain, the hail, the thunder aod lightning, there was a squall of unusual violence. The earth was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In your issue of September 2nd you publish a report of a meeting of delegates. I do not wish to declaim against the scheme because I think it to be necessary and advantageous to the district, but I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PHENOMENALLY severe thunder and hail storm passed over Albury at 4 o'clock on Friday morning. The hall which ranged in measure from [?] he size of a small marble to that of an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE steamer Franklin, of the Adelaide S.S. Company's line, reached Sydney last Friday after a tempestuous passage, during which she had a very narrow…
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