Any Port in a Storm
DURING the late manoeuvres, strict orders were issued prohibiting poaching or trespassing. One day a Thomas Atkins was caught red-handed on a rabbit…
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Floods & storms, 1899
38 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 2 of 2
A Sad and Lonely Death. Perished in a Storm
The friends of Mr. Robert Kirkpatrick, the sheep overseer at Dunlop, will be exceedingly sorry to hear that on the 18th instant his dead body was found on Toorale,…
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Floods have taken place on the Campaspe River and Bendigo Creek, Victoria. They are stated to be the heaviest since 1860…
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In a heavy thunderstorm that broke over Aldershot yesterday, the tents of the New South Wales Lancers were flooded, and the occupants had to take refuge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Any Port in a Storm
During the late manoeuvres, strict Orders were issued prohibiting poaching or trespassing. One day Thomas Atkins was caught red handed on a rabbit warren…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in the United States. London
Terrible floods have occurred in Texus, United States. A tract of country hundreds of miles long and fifty miles wide is under water. Two hundred and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Did She Know the Storm Was Coming?
A swan, belonging to a gentleman, was sitting on her eggs on an island in a river. One morning her owner found her very busy collecting sticks and other rubbish, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Feared
Reports from the country indicate that the crooks are running. Floods are feared. The Gundagai river has overflowed the banks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic Intelligence. Gale in New Zealand. Sydney
DURING a recent gale in New Zealand several buildings on Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, were wrecked. The steamer Lismore lost 100 tons of coal, washed overboard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic Intelligence. the Hunter in Flood. Sydney
THE Hunter is rising rapidly at Maitland. Heavy floods are anticipated. A great stretch of country is already submerged…
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The storm last night developed into a cyclone. At times the rate of the wind reached 51 miles an hour. The wind was accompanied by blinding…
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At Singleton the river has risen 31ft. and is still rising. There are heavy floods in a number of the northern towns…
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For several days the weather has been hot and very muggy. Large blask clouds have been floating about like shadows of night, and hcaiy rain was expected. On…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dust Storm at Bourke. Sydney
A remarkable dust storm is raging at Bourke to-day. The sky is one mass of red dust so thick at intervals that darkness prevails and business is suspended…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Transvaal. a Great Fight at Belmont. The British Storm the Kidges in Brilliant Style. The Boers Fought Courageously, But the British Victory was most Complete. The Boers Lost Heavily. Fifty-nine Britishers Killed. Boers.Marching to Kimberley. The Sydney Lancers in Action. The Battle of Belmont A Gallant Stand. Ladysmith Still Safe Cape Dutchmen Joining tha Boers. They Seize Ladygrey. A Brash at Willow Grange Eighty Boers Killed." The British' Loss Light. Prominent British Residents Arrested. Their Murder Threatened. (By Cable) London, November 24
The British under Gaueral Metheun attacked the Boers at Belmont, storming the ridges in britlmut style. The Infantry behated splendidly. The Boers fought…
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It is a curious fact that Spanish guns, once turned against American soldiers at Santiago, are now protecting American territory from death and destruction by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heroine of a Flood
'Twas on a day that has long passed away, When the Macquarie ran deep with a flood, A time when mountain valleys, far away, Filled her banks with yellow mud;…
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The Hillston Spectator is responsible for tho following description of a storm:— Such a storm has never been…
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