Friday's Storm
A heavy storm, accompanied with vivid flashes of lighting and terrific claps of thunder, passed over Queanbeyan on Friday last. At times the wind blew a perfect…
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Floods & storms, 1901
48 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 3
Tremendous Storm in Sydney
One of the heaviest rainfalls that has been recorded in Sydney, occurred on Monday, 2 inches and 40 points of rain being registered within the hour. The rain was accompanied…
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Few ideas are more firmly rooted in the popular mind than the notion that the equinoxes are times when severe gales are to be expected. Last Friday the sun…
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Last night a cyclonic dust-storm swept over Melbourne and all traffic was stopped. It was the biggest thing of the kind…
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Few ideas are more firmly rooted in the popular mind than the notion that the. equinoxes are times when severe gales are to be expected. Last Friday the sun…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debts Court. Wednesday, February 20. BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Bull and Gale, Js.P
Queanbeyan Roller Flour Mill v. John Malla[?]d--This was a claim for £2 157 for goods sold and delivered. Defendant had paid 15-to plaintiffs since the summons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Wednesday, February 20. BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Bull, Gale, Pike, and Wright, Js. P.
Edward Joseph Smith, against whom a summons had been issued, charging him with neglecting to obey a maintenance order of the court, was called, and Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. [We do not necessarily identify ourselves with the opinions expressed by our correspondents.] Bridges and Floods. (To the Editor of the Queanbeyan Observer.)
SIR,--At the ceremony of the opening of the new bridge t Queanbeyan on the 27th March last year, Mr. O'Sullivan was good enough to quote me at which I was…
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On one of the Babylonian tablets exhumed from the ancient city of Nineveh, and now in the British Museum, is an inscription of surprising interest and importance. It…
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A HEAVY downpour occurred in Melbourne on Tuesday afternoon. The streets were almost deserted. The strong Westerly gale backed up the Yarra to such an extent that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Saturday, May 4Th. Before Messrs. Gale and Atkinson, J's.P. Illegally Using
Wilfred Easton, a lad of 13, pleaded guilty to illegally using a horse, the property of John Wright, and was sentenced to three days' imprisonment in Queanbeyan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →May 6Th. Before Mr J Gale J.P.
George Henry Lodge, a stranger, was charged by Constable McDonough with drunkeness, and on further charges of using indecent language, and resisting him in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Wednesday, May 8Th, 1901. Before Mr. John Gale. J.P.
DRUNK AND USING OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Edward Ritchie, a stranger, who offered in extenuation, that he had only just before his arrest on the previous night,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Friday, May 10Th. Before Mr. John Gale, J.P. Drunk, and Profane and Obscene Language
George Oxley pleaded guilty to the above charges. From a statement made by the arresting officer (Constable McMullen) it appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, May 22Nd. (Before Mr. J. McKensey, P. M. and Messrs. Gale, Pike, and Southwell, J's.P. Summons Cases
There were only two cases set down for hearing. One of them was sett'el out of court, and in the other (Police v. T. Yates, allowing cattle to stray) there was no proof…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan Police Court. MAY 22. (Before Mr. J. McKensey, P.M., and Messrs. W. Pike, J. Gale and Jno. Southwell, Js.P.)
On Thomas Yates being called Constable Clemeshea stated that defendant was away in the bush, and likely to be away some time. The summons had been served on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queanbeyan Police Court. Saturday, June 22Nd. Before Messrs. J. Gale and Thos. Whitehead, J's.P. Fraudulent Appropriation
Charles Matthews Dundas Field, in custody, was presented to the court charged with having fraudulently appropriated to his own use the sum of 196, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Snow Storms
ON Sunday and yesterday considerable fulls of snow occurred in and around Queanbeyan; and, we learn from our correspondents, all through the district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. [We do not necessarily, identify ourselves with the opinions expressed by our correspondents] (To, the Editor of the Queanbeyan Observer.) Thunderstorms and Wheat Crops
SIR,--As reminiecences of the early Queanbeyan days find favour with you, at which I am gratified, I venture to send you the following excerpts from a letter of the late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court. Wednesday, August 21St. (Before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. J. J. Wright, J. Gale, and T. Whitehead, Js. P.) Buttle V. BURTON
This was the only case for hearing. Defendant did not appear, and plaintiff went into the box to give evidence exp[?]rte. The plaint was for the recovery of rates which…
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