Floods in China Great Devastati[?] Peking, July 27
Unprecedented rains and floods are raining Northern China’s crops [?] at [?]…
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Unprecedented rains and floods are raining Northern China’s crops [?] at [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The expected flood is not developing at Wagga so rapidly as Thursday’s reports indicated it might do. There is, nevertheless, sufficient evidence of a solidly rising river, that might very reasonably be expected to reach an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →There has been an easing off in the storm weather in the Southern districts ,rain being mostly of a light character during the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gundagai has been washed out washed out in a fashion similar to what it was 22 years ago. All day Friday the people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday night the flood reached its highest point—31ft. At 9 a.m. this morning the gauge showed 29ft [?] so it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The flood Here was the biggest we ever had—it rose to 13ft. 9in.. 3inches higher than any previous flood To-day the reading…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At 1.30 this morning, the Murrumbidgee had commenced to overflow its western bank at Wagga and the flood waters were trickling into the main street near the Prince of Wales Hotel. At 2.30 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While n boat was rescuing settlers from flooded flats along the Snowy River at Orbost, Victoria, last night, it was overturned, and F. Phelan was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murrumbidge[?] river at Wagga is now higher than it has been since the 1900 flood, and there is no certainty that it will not exceed that record…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At 9 o’clock last night the Murrumbidgee overflowed Its low-lying banks at the Western end of Wagga, the water at the gauge then showing 28ft. 10in. At 1.45 a.m. to-day with the gauge awash at 29ft, 10in., the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Macpherson, who has just returned from, a trip to the East, says the situation in China is chaotic. He added, "Industrially, the people of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE abnormal rainfall on the watershed at bead of the Murrumbidgee caused such a inrush of water to the Burrinjuck Dam that it made it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the floods having disorga[?]saed the country malls and a large number of intending exhibitors having to give their whole attention to looking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A duty devolves' on the municipal authorities of any town that has experienced a flood to consider all the facts and incidents in connection therewith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commenting on the foods in Gippsland, caused by the over[?]ow of the Snowy, M'Allister and Thompson Rivers, the Chairman of the Water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon Wollundry Lagoon which intersects the town, commenced to fill rapidly as the pressure of flood water from the eastern side was felt. It rose several feet and continued to rise late into the night. A great area of what is known as the brickyards invariably becomes affected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The value of the Tarcutta-street flood gates to a large section of the residents of Wagga has been demonstrated in the present flood. When Mr. F. C…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the interest developed in the flood of the Murrumbidgee River parties of sightseers motored from Cootumundra to Gundagai at the week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Setting out per bicycle on a round of the outskirts of the town at midday, a “Daily Express” reporter was enabled to ascertain the full extent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During yesterday and last night the river level at Wagga maintained a fairly even registration fluctuating slightly backwards and forwards from 30ft. 10in. to 30ft. 11 in. in the still water at Little Gurwood Street, and once or twice, for short periods,…
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