Heavy Rain. In North Queensland
BRISBANE, Monday.--Heavy rain fell during the week-end Over North Queensland. Babinda registered registered no less than 1050 points, McDonnell recorded…
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Floods & storms, 1926
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Protection From Floods. Bungawalbin-swan Bay Flood Gates Scheme. Land Holders Determined
Close on 60 people interested in the proposed floodgating of Boggy Crook and of the private drains in the Bungawalbin-Moonem-Swan Bay area met at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Prevention in Woodburn Shire Proposed Special Rate Coraki
A very largely attended meeting was held at Bungawalbyn on Friday night, when between 60 and 70 farmers and others interested met to consider the question of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deluge in Sydney
SYDNEY. Wednesday.—A tropical deluge, the heaviest in Sydney for many months, broke over the city shortly after 8 o'clock last night,…
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Between 60 and 70 farmers and others interested attended a meeting at Bungawalbyn on Friday evening last to consider the question of flood gating…
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An application before the Grafton Land Board for the conversion of a special lease of 540 acres into a conditional purchase, made by Gilbert Jesse Clark, was objected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm at Darwin Brisbane
A message from Darwin states that violent weather prevails all along the coast. The steamer Kinchela is overdue at Thursday Island. No anxiety is felt locally, as Capt…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Canary Islands Storm (Reuter.) LONDON
Reuter's Madrid correspondent, describing the terrifying character of the storm in the Canary Islands, which lasted three days, states that reports from Las Palmas say…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm at Moree a Woman Killed Moree
Mrs. Freeman, wife of a jeweller, was killed last night when the chimney of their home was dislodged during a storm. Bricks and masonry crashed through the roof and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Caught in Hail Storm
Owing to having been caught in a hail storm near Grafton, Mr. E. Roberts, of Mullumbimby, had to get a new hood fitted to his car in Lismore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood Gates Question
The very firm and determined stand taken by the residents of Swan Bay-Bungawalbin-Moonem in the matter of floodgates is only what could be…
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The general secretary of the Primary Producers' Union has forwarded to the secretary of the Richmond District Council the following letter from the Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cloudburst. Deluge Near Maitland
SYDNEY, Monday.-A cloudburst is reported to have occurred at Eccleston, near Maitland, when rain fell in torrents. Six luches were estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kempsey Gale Swept
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A Kempsey message states that a gale swept the town late yesterday and unroofed several houses and Tattersall's Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Showers
Following on the heat on Monday storms worked up early in the afternoon and several light showers fell in Casino. Heavier rain appeared to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Atlantic Storms. Sixty Seamen in Jeopardy
NEW YORK,Tuesday.- The lives of at least 60 seamen are in jeopardy on two steamships which are batting in mid-ocean against one of the worst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm Causes Damage at Fairy Hill
A very heavy storm was experienced over a narrow strip of country in the vicinity of Fairy Hill on Monday afternoon. Numerous trees were…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.- Extensive damage was caused by a thunder and hail storm at Kempsey yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm at Broome Schooner Blown Inland Perth
Particulars of the storm at Broome on Friday and Saturday night show that hardy a house, troe, or structure of any kind escaped the fury of the visitation. The wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Atlantic Storm Ships in Jeopardy (Reuter.) New York
The lives of at least 60 seamen are in jeopardy on two steamers battling in midocean against one of the worst storms ever encountered in the Atlantic. The liner…
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