Letters to the Editor. The Flood Vote
SIR,—As the Bowral Council has received the sum of £824/10/8 from the flood vote of 1800, how is it that repairs have not been done to the road under the railway bridge?…
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Floods & storms, 1891
9 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
Disastrous Floods in Arizona. Destruction of a Township. Many Hundred Persons Homeless. LONDON, March 2
News has been received of extensive and devastating foods in Arizona, one of the south-western States of the Union. One township that of Yuma, has been submerged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Flood at Wagga. Escapes From Drowning. Wagga
At 2 o'clock yesterday the flood stood at about 35ft. above summer level; from that time till 9 o'clock the water rose rapidly, At night numbers of people, whose houses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Time at Sea. a Steamer on Fire in a Gale. MELBOURNE
IT is very seldom that sailors are called upon to undergo similar experience to that of the office [?] and crew of the C[?], which arrived [?] from London. The Culgoa is one of the many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Waters in the Municipality. Special Report of the Works Committee
AT the last meeting of the Bowral Municipal Council the Works Committee were requested to prepare a report dealing with the flood waters, and the streets effected thereby,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Floods in Victoria. Railway Traffic Interrupted. House, Swept Away. Loss of Life. Melbourne
TRARALGON was to-day visited by the heaviest flood since 1881. Heavy rain foil yesterday till this morning, particularly in the Callingue Ranges, whence such a body of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mariposa in a Gale. The Decks Swept by Heavy Seas
THE Mariposa[?] agrived A[?]dand at 8.30 on Monday morning, after a most tempestuous passage from sydney. For two days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods in Spain. Two Thousand Persons Drowned. LONDON, Sept. 14
Two thousands persons are said to have lost their lives through the floods at Toledo in Spain. Help to the distressed people is impracticable for the present, as the railways…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Severe Thunderstorms at Crookwell
VERY severe storms passed over Crookwall on Thursday, loud peals of thunder being accompanied by vivid flashes of lightning. Rain fell in torrents. The lightning smashed fences and…
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