Destructive Storm
YESTERDAY afternoon, at about 4 o'clock, a violet storm of wind and dust and rain broke over Queanbeyan with destructive effect. All the afternoon thunder-clouds…
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Floods & storms, 1897
49 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 3
A Terriffic Storm at Sydney. Great Damage to Property
A terriffic storm, lasting fifteen minutes, passed over the city and suburbs yesternight. The wind reached a velocity of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News. Police Court. Wednesday, Jan. 6Thn. (Before Messrs. J. Gale and C.W. Thomas) Unlawful Impounding
John Gordon, of Reedy Crock, was sumrmoned by Thomas Ponney, who in his information complained that defendant did on, the 22nd December last illegally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Monday, January 11Th. (Before Messrs. Gale and Thomas, Js.P.) LUNACY
William Henry Moore, who had been arrested on the information of his mother, Ellen Moore, wife of William Moore, brickmaker, of Queanbeyan, charging him with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court Wednesday, January 12Th. (Before Messrs. Wright, Gale and Thomas.)
The cause list was very light, and some of the cases were settled out of court. In the case of J. H. Hincksman v. T. Harman, there was no appearance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Wednesday, February 17. Before Messrs Maitland, P.M., and Bull and Gale, Js.P. Indecent Exposure
An old man apparently of 70, giving the name of James Struthers Miller, add who had been convicted on the previous Monday of being drunk and disorderly, for which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm at Lismore
Sydney, Tuesday-A terrific storm was experienced at Lismore on Sunday afternoon. One girl was killed, and several persons were injured by falling trees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Wednesday, Feb. 24Th. (Before Messrs Gale and Thomas, Js.P.) a Double-barrelled Charge
Charles Blewitt was charged with that he did on 10th inst., at Rob Roy Reserve, unlawfully assault Marjorie Becher, wife of Peter Becher, by striking her with a switch…
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Sydney, Tuesday.— Heavy rain fell throughout the night and there is ever appearance of it continuing. Reports from all parts of the country state that rain…
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Sydney, Friday—Two lives were lost in the recent heavy floods a Greymouth (N.Z.), and the damage is more extensive than was at first anticipated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone at Norfolk Island
Sydney, Tuesday—By a cyclone on January 28th at Norfolk Island, the post office was blown down. A terrific sea prevailed, and carried away large iron tanks and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mississippi in Flood
London, Monday—The river Mississippi has overflowed its banks, and the country is inundated. 50 persons were drowned, and great damage was done to property…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Wednesday, April 28. (Before Messrs Gale and Thomas, Js.P.) TRESPASSING
John Robinson and John Mallard, two young men, were charged by J. G. Brooke, manager of Duntroon Estate, that they did on 17th April, without lawful excuse, enter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News. Queanbeyan Police Court. Wednesday, May 5Th. Before Messrs. J. J. Wright J. Gale. Breaches of Public Instruction Act
Senior-sergeant Maguire, as the officer empowered under the Act, prosecuted the following fathers of children of school age for breaches of the Public instruction Act…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Wednesday, May 5. (Before Messrs Wright and Gale, Js.P.) School Cases
In the following cases the defendants were charged with neglecting to send their boys to school the number of days required by the Act—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Dust Storm
AN unusual phase, at this season of the year, of the present distressing drought has developed within the last few days--a dust-storm, common enough in the summer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Wednesday, May 19. (Before Messrs Maitland, P.M., Gale, Bull, and E. C. Campbell, Js P.) Keeping Excess of Explosives
William Farrer, of Llanrigg, was charged with keeping, on premises not licensed, a quantity of dynamite and gunpowder in excess of the weight allowed by the Act…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan Pony Race Club. Patron—E. W. O'Sullivan, Esq., M.L.A. President—E. C. Campbell, Esq., J.P. Vice-Presidents—Dr Blackall, J.P., E. H. Land and J. H. Lees, Esqrs. Treasurer—W. Pike, Esq. Judge—A. W. Mariarty, Esq. Committee—Messrs C. Hawes, J. Byrne, A. McPherson, J. Pike, S. Pooley, A. Lazarus, J. H. Hincksman, C. U. O'Hanlon, T. J. F. Cadden, and P. Collett. Secretary—Mr W. E. Gale
The second meeting of the Queanbeyan Pony and Galloway Club took place on the Queanbeyan Racecourse on Monday (Queen's Birthday). The attendance was slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Storm in the Suburbs
On Tuesday a fierce storm—by some called a cyclone and by others a tornado—left a black ugly trail of unroofed buildings, demolished dwellings, and wretched homes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Floods
Terrible floods have occurred at Vioron and in the Valley of the Morge, Switzerland. Many silk and paper factories were…
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