A Deluge of Immigration
"If the immigrants to the United States for the past year could be lined up along the equator, they could pass the word 'America' round the globe without shouting."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1906
31 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2
Flooded Colliery. Entombed Miners. Graphic Story of Escapes
All hope for the recovery of the six miners entormhed in the flooded colliery of Cardoc Vale. Hendreforgan, is now, reports the “Daily News“ of 28th June,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deluge of Boiling Lead. Fireman’s Exciting Experience
An exciting and unpleasant experience befell the fireman who took part in the work of extinguishing a fire which broke out in the top story of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood at Gininderra
THE Gininderra correspondent writes to the Penny Post under date October 3, as follows :—Smart showers of rain continued to fall, here during the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm in England. Torrential Rain. Crops Damage. Volunteer Camp Wrecked
London beheld last night (2nd. August) one of the grandest exhibitions of atmospheric electrical disturbances witnessed for many a day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrific Thunderstorm
A terrific thunderstorm passed over the western side of Grafton on Tuesday afternoon. It was accompanied by heavy hail which cut down…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone in Cuba
A disastrous cyclone has been experienced in Cuba. Many People were killed, and great damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm at Bombala
Bombala, Wednesday.—A heavy hailstrom occurred yesterday afternoon. The morning had been close and oppressive. Within .half an hour after the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Wednesday, Nov. 28Th, 1906. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. John Gale, J.p.) Police V. McHARDY
Alexander McHardy was charged with drunkenness and using obscene language. Constable McCarron proved the charge and defendant was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Wednesday, November 28. BEFORE Mr. Alfred Elliott, P.M., and John Gale, J.P. Drunk and Obscene Language
An elderly man, a stranger, named Alexander McHardy, pleaded guilty to being drunk in Monaro street the previous day, also to using obscene…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm in a Teacup. the French Telegraph Boy
The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" narrates the followlong story:- Gontinl, aged nineteen, a telegraph…
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