Great Storms in Canada. Train Swept Off Track. Montreal
Tremendous gales are sweeping the eastern coast of Canada. An express train in Newfoundland was blown right off the track…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1912
31 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Storm Damage
A CULVERT at Green Gaily, just-outside the Municipal boundary, on the Bombay road, was washed away during tHe storm on Monday night last. The Shire Engineer had a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Starving Millions. In Central China. Floods, War, and Famine
Beginning with the month of February the next three months threaten to be a period of great suffering and misery in central China. From information supplied by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm at Lake Bathurst
A TERRIFIC rainstorm with disastrous effects to everything that came within its course struck the village on Friday last at 4 p.m. Within an hour four…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Warn Airmen of Thunderstorms
The Royal Prussian Aeronautical Observatory has instituted a service for the purpose of giving aviators warning of the approach of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Friday, March 1, 1912. Queanbeyan Race Club. Officials. President: Mr. James Cunningham. Vice Presidents: Messrs. E. G. Crace, E. E. Hudson and R. Hayes. JUDGE: Mr. E. E. Hudson. TIMEKEEPER: Mr. Hungerford. Stipondiary Starter—Mr R Benson Stipendiary Steward—Mr D W Gibson Hon. Treasurer: Mr. L. Dunshea. COMMITTEE: Messrs. F. A. Campbell, W. G. Chapman, Gerald Massy, J. H. Hincksman, F. P. Woodward, B. H. Mumford. A. J. Gibbs, N. H. Gibbs, W. E. Gale, P J. Ryan, J. T. Collettand M. S. Emanuel. Clerk of the Course, Mr. M. Quigiey. Clerk of the Scales: Mr. L. Dunshea, Scratching Steward: Mr. M. S. Emanuel. Stewards in Charge of Placed Horses. Messrs W Pike, W E. Gale, and S. E. Gibbs Hon Secretary: Mr H Collier
THE annual meeting of the above club may be written as a record success both in point of attendance and financially, and we are pleased that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Blow. South Australian Cyclone. Steamer Ashore. Lighthouse Blown Down. Adelaide
A violent cyclonic disturbance occurred early this morning along the South Australian coast, the wind blowing, at times, with terrific force…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Domestic Novel. the Scarlet Butterfly. Chapter Ii. The Story Told by John Gale
I have been asked by that eminent firm of solicitors, Messrs. Colquhoun, Webber and Smart, if I recollect the incidents surrounding the death of little Reginald…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan P. & A. Association. Annual Show. President—Mr. R. Moore. Vice-presidents—Messrs. E. E. Hudson and F.G. Sullivan. Hon. Treasurer—Mr. A. H. Croaker. Auditors—Messrs. W.C. Cantle and G.L. Radcliffe. Committee—Messrs. J.T. Collett, A.H. Collett, F. A. Campbell, W. E. Oldfield, R.J.S. Fallick. N. H. Gibbs, R. Hayes, M. N. McDonald, A. G. McKeahnie, Walter McIntosh. A. H. Nervell, John Read, S. E. Gibbs, C. H. McKeahnie, R. R. Hetherington. J. M. McIntosh, E. E. Morgan, E. G. Crace. W. E. Gale, Wm. Pike, A. W. Moriarty, C. T. Campbell, James Cunningham, E. O. Moore. Secretary—E. C. Hincksman
IT was decided only by the casting-vote of the President, at a recent meeting, that, despite the adverse character of the season of 1911-12, the 19th Annual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scientific Notes. Absorbing Floods
Absolving flood water by storage wells is a plan French engineers are considering. Much damage was formerly done by inundations on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flooded Mississippi. New Orleans, Monday Evening
Flood reports from Torras grow in gravity. People have been swept off the roofs of houses, where they had sought refuge, the flood water exceeding the height of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Queensland
As the result of heavy rains in Queensland floods are reported. In many places the rivets are running bankers, and several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Frenchman Advocates Flooding of Sahara
As one-fourth of the Sahara desert is below water, a French scientist proposes to transform this portion into an inland sea by the digging of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About Floods
Some people consider that a flood is due to us instead of a drought, and I am inclined to agree with them as it is 21, years since we had a flood. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chapter Xxxix. the Last Gleam Before the Storm
But with us who were staying down at Major, Buckley's a fort-night passed on so pleasantly that the horror of poor Lee's murder had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Across The Tasman Sea. Storm in New Zealand. Landslips Block the Railways Wellington
The country is just now suffering from the worst storm experienced for years. Many of the rivers in both Islands are roaring floods, and considerable damage has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hawkesbury Floodwaters
The floodwaters of the Hawkesbury are gradually receding. All danger of a serious unandation. is over unless further heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chapter Xl. the Storm Bursts
Poor little Cecil Mayford had left us about nine o'clock in the morning of the day before this, and, accompanied by Charles Hawker,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Than Moist. Floods in England. Delights of Soldiering. London
Disastrous floods have occurred in the Midlands. The Yorkshire farmers have had their hay crop ruined, and have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Snow Storm
THERE was a slight fall of snow in Queanbeyan yesterday morning shortly after 7 o'clock. It lasted but a few minutes, and consisted of the eastern…
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