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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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LONDON, Sunday.—A British eye-witness states: "The Germans are apparently using pumps, electrically worked, at Lille to drain the trenches. They attempted to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. H E. Budd writes to Mr. F. P. Smith, from Murrumba, on the 10th inst., to the effect that that district was lately visited by a cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Eye Witness," in a further despatch relating to the progress of events at the front, under date of Tuesday last, says: The general situation remains…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Messages from Rotterdam report the battle in Flanders has been confined to engagements between artillery and aircraft. The country is flooded, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ROTTERDAM, Friday.—The batlle in Flanders is just now confined to the artillery and airecrafts. Fields are converted into lakes and the trenches deep ditches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The late storm strewed mines on the Belgian coast in such numbers that the mining of the whole coastal waters has failed. The mines were placed in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The country west of Ypres has been inundated and the troops compelled to leave their positions. This frees them for service further south…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Pa[?]s official report reads: we have continued to progress in the regions of Nieuport and Lombaertzyde, and Lave advanced for a distance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—Disasrious bush fires have occurred in the Walrarapa district. The outhreaks are accompanied by cyclonic gales A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous bush fires have occurred in the Pongaroa district, near Wairarapa. The outbreak was accompanied by a cyclonic gale, much property…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An official message from Paris says that from the sea to the Oise the frone was swept by a violent storm, which was especially severe in Belgium…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Snow has greatly interfered with the operations in France. There has been intermittent cannonading amidst storms…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A severe dust storm passed over Young this morning, accompanied by loud thunder. The town was develpoed in dust. Many narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There was severe dust storm at Young this morning, many narrow escapes being reported, it was impossible to see where one was going…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MURWILLUMBAR, Saturday.—The countryside yesterday was enveloped in dust. caused by dust storms in the interior The weather is fine and cool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Grenfell "Record" man gives his imagination a free rem:—It is seldom and certainly not within the experience of the oldest inhabitant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Yesterday broke dull and sultry, and there was little or no wind until about 11 a.m., when a blow sprang up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported from Gibraltar that a gale wrecked 40 vessels off Cadiz. Loss of life was enormous, and great destruction was wrought in the harbours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The Japanese warship Asama was lost through striking rocks on the Californian coast during a gale. The officers and crew were landed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.—A terrible gale occurred on the Aberdeen coast. A salvage boat from Hull turned turtle and six were drowned. One man was imprisoned by…
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