The Cyclone at Narrabri. Many Buildings Unroofed
ONE of the most severe cyclonesâalmost equal to that of last year, when it was estimated that £4000 worth of damage was doneâpassed over the town of…
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Floods & storms, 1902
18 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
The Great Gale on the British Coast
CABLEGRAMS published in November told of a disustrous gale sweeping the British Coast. One message told of a lif boat wreck. The following are the particulars:…
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A TERRIBLE cyclonic duststorm passed over Narrabri about 4.15 p.m. on Thursday. When the dust came, it was as dark as midnight, but before it arrived vivid…
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NEARLY thirty-six hous overdue the A.U.S.N. Company's well-known liner Arawatta arrived at Sydney on Monday night from Queensland ports…
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A TELEGRAM despatched from Nashville on March 30, published in the San Francisco "Chronicle," states: Reports from the flooded districts of Tennessee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Special Weather Forecast Floods in June
THE following is an extract from monthly weather forecast for June, 1902, by Oronzo Presa, Agricultural Meteorologist, and Mathematical Astronomer, 482…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One Man Believes Floods Will Soon Come out West
A GLEN INNES paper prints the following from a correspondent:£"In 1864, prior to the big flood, when there was an open sea 30 miles wide at the junction of the…
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Sr. LOUIS, July 18.—Only once since the flood of 1892 has the Mississippi River been so high as at present. On the Illinois side, between St. Louis and Alton,…
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TWICE the Legislative Assembly has passed the Tuckina Floud Escape Scheme Bill, and twice has it failed to pass the Council. Wednesday night for the third time Mr. O'Sullivan moved…
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IN the Assembly last Thursday night Mr. O'Sullivan, in moving the second reading of the Tuckian Flood Escape Scheme Bill, said the proposal was to drain a very rich area of…
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IN the debate on the second reading of this Bill, Mr. Coleman, member for Lismore, speaking at 1 a. m., said: To show the necessity for some such scheme as is here proposed, I have this evening,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mud Storm at Sea
A PECULIAR experience occurred on the voyage of the U.S.S. Company's steamer Wakatipu, which arrived in Sydney on Friday from Launceston. The steamer was crossing Bass…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Apparatus Will Tell of Approaching Storm
W[?] L. Moo[?] chief of the Weather [?], is about to install at the Government observatory in Duluth an apparatus which, it is said, will detect an electric…
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DALLAS, Texas July 26.—The deluge of rain which has been pouring over central Texas since Thursday and that which has been covering the Western portion of the State since…
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IN the Legislative Council on Wednesday the Vice-President of the Executive Council moved the second reading of this bill, and said that the proposal contained in the mensure was before…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"The Northern Star." Wednesday Morning, 15Th October. Thf. Rejection Oe the Tuckian Flood Escape Scheme
Those who read the condensed report published of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Damage at Peak-hill. Worst Storm on Record
A telegram from Pealt-Hill on Monday stated the cyclone on Saturday, which was the worst on record there, came up from the south-west. It appeared to strike the town in two narrow…
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THE Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society gives some facts about the loss of life in the United States by lightning. The period dealt with is 11 years, 1890-1900,…
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