Storm and Damage
ON Wednesday evening, after a sultry time, a sharp heat from the west, the sky gave indication of a gathering storm. Thunder and lightning came, and the…
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New South Wales [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday. Storm at Temoba
"A terrific storm occurred at Temora yesterday. Many houses were unroofed and shrubs and flowers cut down by hail. HARVEST HOME…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Terrible Disaster. Bloemfontein Flooded. a Reservoir Bursts. Sixty Persons Drowned. London, Monday afternoon
The bursting of a waterspout flooded Bloemfontein, destroying many bouses and rendering hundreds of people homeless…
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The most terrible storm ever experienced at Goulburn occurred on Wednesday. The morning was muggy, and towards noon the sky became overcast. There was a…
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Cables from Suva, Fiji, state that a serious gale is being experienced in the islands, the centre being calculated to be in the neighbourhood of the eastern…
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Goulburn was at 1 o'clock on Wednesday visited by the heaviest storm experienced in its history. Three and a quarter inches of rain and hail fell in about an hour. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Cables. Old World Doings. London, Sunday. Great Floods
Great floods have occurred in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) The passengers from the railway trains were rescued in boats. Twenty five thousand persons have been…
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The Alleghany River, Pen[?] U.S.A., has risen 28ft, above its usual level and is gaining. The flood has destroyed several bridges, and building…
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Mr. J. N. Payne, of Guerie (says the Wellington Times) tells an interesting story of the years 1868 and 1869. In the former year he and his brother…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic News. General Cables. London, Jan. 27. Great Rain Storm
A torrible rain storm has occurred at Bowkerspark, in the Queenstown district of the Capo Colony. The Great Kei River rose at Lesseyton 30ft. in 40 minutes, and…
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A terrible rainstorm occurred at Bowker's Park, on the Port Elizabeth railway, Cape Colony. At Lesseyton, a village about two miles distant, and 80 miles to…
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THE pleasures of an ascent of the higher Alps are sometimes enhanced, sometimes marred, by an immersion in a dense cloud, which, gendered in a snowy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New South Wales. [By Telegraph.] Syedney, Wednesday. Flood in South Australia
Heavy floods and washaways on the South Australian railway lines have stopped railway communication with Broken Hill. SYDNEY WEATHER CONDITIONS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in South Australia. Petersburg [?] Gladstone In[?] a Woman Swept Away and Drowned. Adelaide
To-night Peterburg, a town h[?] about 100 miles north of Adelaide reports that the streets are flooded owing to the heavy ram. The [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of Mrs. Mary Deighton. One of Our Earliest Residents. a Grand Old Lady. a Survivor of the Great Flood
THE public were yesterday morning pained and shocked at the news of the death of one of the oldest and most highly respected residents of the…
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A terrible storm passed over Albury on Thursday afternoon. In about ten minutes an inch of rain fell, and within half an hour the streets were converted into raging…
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The heaviest rain experienced for years has fallen over the Northern por[?]lod of the State, 9½ inches having fallen at Tamar, 9 inches at…
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In consequence of the recent heavy rains in the Hunter River [?] much of th country around Maitland is still under flood. In some portions of the…
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Heavy rain began to fall in the Northern Districts on Saturday and continued throughout the week. The fell up to Tuesday was: Scoen, 727…
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Heavy rain has caused serious floods in the South Island of New Zealand where the railway traffic has been interrupted At Balelutha the Clutha River rose 11½ft.,…
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