A Heavy Gale
The war ship Porpoise, bound to New Zealand, returned to port yesterday, having encountered a terrific gale on Saturday, with mountainous seas, the the decks being swept and her boats…
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Floods & storms, 1900
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Flooded Rivers
In consequence of heavy rain, and afterwards the melting mow, both the Macquarie and Bell Rivers were running bankers. The water in the Bell was within a matter of a few inches only of…
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One hundred and fifty families are temporarily homeless as a result of the Hawkesbury flood. Most of the sufferers are farmers on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Recent Storms. Break-down of Railways and Telegraphs
Owing to the remarkable weather, the western railway service suffered, during the past week, an interruption of a character absolutely unprecedented in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Macquarie in Flood
THE rains of the last few weeks, which were supplemented at the end of last week by the heavy falls of snow on the highlands, have had the effect of causing the streams flowing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thn Floods. Sydney
The floods are subsiding, but reports indicate severe losses. The wool-scouring works at the Nepean have suffered damage to the amount of £6000. Twigg Bros.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods at Corambo. Sydney
Seven inches of rain have fallen at Corambo in 24 hours. There are floods in the northern rivers, but the damage is slight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone at Mafeking
A cyclone did enormous damage at Mafeking. The storm levelled the camp and the patients had to be transferred in torrents of rain from the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fearful Storm. London
During the storm which followed upon the Galveston disaster, seven hundred fisher folk on the coast of Newfoundland perished…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Latest Cablegrams. Storms in Britain. London
Severe tempests from the west have occurred throughout Great Britain. Many vessels have been stranded. Houses have been unroofed in…
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