Heavy Rain. Betting Ring a Sheet of Water. Sydney
Randwick experienced one of the wettest days for its meeting to-day since the middle "eighties" considering there has been five inches of rain in…
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Floods & storms, 1917
338 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 17
Cyclonic Storm. Play Havoc with Shipping
SYDNEY, Friday.--News has been received in Sydney that a cyclonic storm of great fury recently passed over the northern part of the New Hebrides group, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams Flood Rains in Sydney Boy Drowned in Flood Waters SYDNEY
Heavy floods occurred at Manly yesterday, which interfered with the tram traffic across the Lagoon bridge, this being deemed unsafe to cross. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Rain at Clarence Heads
Clarence Heads reports and isolated fall of rain, totalling 210 points, due to several large waterspouts which were observed to the south-east…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in the Riga District. London
A Petrograd message states that inundations on the Riga front separate the adversaries and fighting is at present impossible. Heavy German…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gavrelle the Storm Centre. a Dominating Position. Germans Severely Punished. The Stuborn Worcesters. LONDON
Gavrelle continues to be the centre of the fiercest fighting. The village commands the road sloping down towards Douai, and possession of Gavrelle also…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone in New Hebrides. Mission House Demolished
SYDNEY, Monday.-- The recent cyclone caused great destructed in the southern island of the New Hebrides. The storm raged with unabated fury for two days. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Reserve South Gundurimba
A special meeting of South Gundurimba Flood Reserve was held in Lismore on Saturday, 28th April, 1917, when a full Beard was present. Before opening the meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sharp Thunderstorm
Early on Saturday morning a sharp thunder and rainstorm broke over Murwillumbah and district. Very heavy ain fell for a few minutes and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Impede French Advance German Line in Danger. LONDON
The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Paris says that the position on the thirty-two miles of the French front between St. Quentin and Laffaux had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sinai Davs and Nights. Sand, Storms, Rain and Cold
A Mid Richmond lad, engaged with the forces against the Turks, [?]rwards the following from the Egyptain 'Mail':—The Arabs say that Allah laughed at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victorian Flood. Six Deaths Recorded. SYDNEY
Six deaths occurred at Wangaratta, Victoria, in consequence of serious floods. Many miles of the Wangaratta. Whitefield railway are under water, and the train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Great Flood. Loss of Life. Victorian Occurrences
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Wangaratta is the centre of a great flood in the Ovens and King Rivers. Unfortunately the visitation has been attended by loss of life. Six…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Wires FLOODS
SYDNEY, Friday. -- There are serious floods in many parts of Victoria, particularly in the Wangaratta district, where three men and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wangaratta Flood
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The flood waters at Wangaratta, Vic., are slowly subsiding, but are still higher than for the last 20 years. The loss in stock and property in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods. Serious Damage
MELBOURNE, Monday.--The latest reports regarding the floods in Victoria show that serious damage was done. Heavy rain fell again yesterday, the Goulburn and other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Murray in Flood. a Serious Position. SYDNEY
A message from Jerilderic says that the Murray River has passed the 19 feet mark, which is regarded locally as the critical height, and is still rising. At…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods. Echuca Threatened. Supply of Tents Asked For
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--There is every probability that the flood waters of the Murray and Goulburn Rivers will descend upon Echuca within the next 48 hours. Already…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Murray Floods Tocumwal District Inundated SYDNEY
Large areas of country in the Tocumwal district are under water, Much young wheat is submerged. The river is slightly lower than yesterday, but is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods. Losses in Stock
WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--Floods continue in New Zealand. Train services have been dislocated. There have been heavy bosses in stock, in one instance 3000 sheep…
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