Tuckian Flood Escape
AT a public meeting held at Lismore on Saturday, 24th ultimo, to consider the latest phase of the Tuckian question, there was a good attendance of…
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Floods & storms, 1899
28 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 2
The Northern Star. Saturday Morning, 14Th January, 1899. the Tuckian Flood Relief Scheme
Mu. KEELE'S report on the Tuckian Flood Relief saheme, published…
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MR. EDITOR,—I hope you will allow me space in your next issue to address a few words to your readers, especially on the lower river, on the above scheme. No doubt many of your…
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THE well-known engineer, Mr. Napier Bell, has accepted the offer made to him by the Government to inquire into and report upon the best means of coping with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tackian Flood Belief Scheme. Delegates' Keeting at Coraki
THE adjourned meeting of delegates held at lismore on December 24 RE the Tackian flood escape drain was held at Coraki on Saturday afternoon. The following delegates were…
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AT Brisbane early on Monday morning a terrific gale was experienced over the city and suburbs, which was accompanied by rain of a phenomenal character. Between 8 and…
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THE 'New York World' says:—New York City was blizzard-swept on Monday, February 13. Up to midnight 15.10 inches of snow…
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A MEETING of delegates from several localities interested was held in the Council Chambers, Coraki, on Saturday afternoon last, to consider the advisability of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Cradle of the Storm
To lift a large pail or tank measuring two feet each way and filled with two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, chemically combined in certain proportions, is beyond the powers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hoavy Weather to the South. The Storm In Sydney
THE S. M. Herald says: On Tuesday the sun rose thickly veiled by inky cloud-banks which at intervals broke, letting down a torrent of rain for a few seconds now, and then minutes, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An American Cyclone. 400 Houses Demolished. 60 People Killed
At Kirksville, Mo. on April 27, at 6 p.m, a cyclones wept a broad, clean path nearly a quarter of a mile in width. The east side of the town was entirely destroyed. Fully 400…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Theoretieal Deluge
IT would be inconvenient, to say the least (says the "London Daily Mail,") if London were some day soon to find itself at the bottom of several miles of water. Yet…
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ON Sunday the weather set in showervy, but with no idication to the ordinary observer that any heavy fall was night at hand. During Sunday night the wind increased to gale, and by…
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ON Saturday night last a change in the weather took place, but few who heard the ruin gently pattering on the roofs on that date had the faintest conception that it was the…
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THE S.S. Titus left Sydney last Saturday for the Gilbert Islands. She got to the north-east about 100 miles when she met this monsoonal disturbance. Sunday morning it was blowing a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Losses and Damages by the Flood
THE losses from the flood above Lismore us far as we have yet heard is, we are glad to be able to say, very slight, and the greatest damage sustained has been to culverts. The creeks…
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SEVERAL passengers for the Richmond were on board the Kallatina during her rough trip. They got over on Friday afternoon, and we obtained a few particulars of their experience. The…
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AFTER his arrival at Lismore we interviewed Captain Alley, of the St. George for his experiences in the late gale. The Captain says it was not by any means the worst he has been out in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods on the Hunter. Report of Mr. C. Napier Bell. a Diversion of the River Proposed. Deepening and Banking the Channel
THE report of Mr. C. Napier Bell, who was asked by the Government to inquire into the cause and probable remedies of the Hunter River floods, was available last night. In…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, August 2Nd, 1899. Flood Prevention on the Hunter
THE abstract of the report by Mr. C. NAPIER BELL…
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