A Night in the Storm
"Help! Help!" Weird and wailingly sounded the terrified appeal, horse upon the whistling wind through the heavy falling rain, over the level…
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Floods & storms, 1899
38 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2
Police Court. TUESDAY. (Before Messrs Gale, Bull and McNamara, Js P.)
Cecil Bennett was charged with obtaining 13s from Thomas Oldfield on false pretences. The evidence of the arresting constable in Sydney was read…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in America
London, Thursday—Appalling floods have occurred in Texas, United States. A tract of country, five hundred miles long and fifty miles wide, is submerged. Two hundred and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Cyclone
The following is a description of the cyclone which uprooted New Richmond in Win[?] U.S.: “New Richmond, with 2000 inhabitants’ has been totally uprooted. The cyclone came…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rain and Snow Storms
ANOTHER magnificent full of rain has happened since our last issue. On Friday afternoon from about 3 o'clock till 9 p.m., a steady downpour came from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Big Rainfall. Rivers Flooded. a Bridge Swept Away. Traffic Stopped
NOTWITHSTANDING the heavy local rains which fell last week, as duly recorded, another and still heavier downpour set in on Friday afternoon, and continued almost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Fla Miner. Wednesday, August 16, 1899. Local and General. the River in Flood
The heavy rains of Friday night, when 150 points were registered, was responsible, doubtless, for the sudden rise in the height of the Queanbeyan river. Early on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Monday. The Recent Gales
During the recent gales which passed over New Zealand, several buildings on the Great Barrier Islands, in the Hauraki Gulf were wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Floods
Sydney, Friday.—A storm rose last night which developed into a cyclone. At times the rate of wind reached 51 miles an hour, and was accompanied by blinding sheets of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Courts. Small Debts, Wednesday, September 20Th. Before Messrs. Stephen Murphy, P.M., and John Gale, Wm. Beatty and Thos. Whitehead, Js.P. BLUNDELL v. LEE
This was an action in which Phoebo Ann Blundall sought to recover from Henry Lee the sum of £3 15s rent £2 5s. for damages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Friday, September 22Nd. Before Messrs. J. Gale and W. Beatty. a Diseased Animal
Application was made by the police far the destruction of a steer then in the pound yard, Queanboyan, which was alleged to be suffering from tuberculosis…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain's Flat Police Court. Wednesday, Sept. 27. (Before Messrs. Murphy, P.M. Roach, Gale and Watson, J'.sP.) Breach of the Slaughtering Act
Robert Jobson was summoned for keeping premises for slaughtering cattle without bating obtained a license Case dismissed. W. Jermain was summoned on the same charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Where Not to be in a Thunderstorm
During a thunderstorm, it is pointed out, the inhabitants of houses should not remain in the kitchen or other room where a fire is burning in the grate, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grasshoppers and Dust Storms
AN item from Deniliquin under Saturday's date, is that the grasshoppers, which created such devastation throughout the district for the past month or more, were completely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News. Police Court. Wednesday, December 20Th. Before Mr. Stephen Murphy, P.M., and Messrs. Gale and Whitehead, Js.P. Observe Language
Dennis Flannagan pleaded guilty to a charge of having used obscene language in Monaro-street on December 7th, and was fined 20s., with 4s. 10d. costs, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Indecent Assault Case. (Before Mr Gale, J.P.)
At the Police Court on Friday, Wilfred Joseph Smallhorn, a boy of 15 years, was charged with committing an indecent assault on a girl of over 10 and under 14 years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Sheep Stealing Case. (Before the P.M. and Messrs. Gale and Whitehead, Js.P.)
William Tyrie was charged with having in his possession on November 21st certain cattle reasonably suspected of having, been dishonestly come by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Stealing Case. WEDNESDAY. (Before Messrs. Gale, Brassey, and Whitehead, Js.P)
Joseph Tyrie was charged with that he did on November 21st last have in his possession certain sheepskins, alleged to have been dishonestly come by…
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