Serious Floods and Great Loss of Life. London, January 14
Great floods and loss of life have occurred at St. Kitts. 200 persons have been drowned, and there has been an immense destruction of property…
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Serious Floods and Great Loss of Life
LONDON, January 14.—Great floods and loss of life has occurred at St. Kitts, Two hundred persons have been drowned, and there has been immense…
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MUDGEE, Monday.—During a heavy storm here yesterday a number of buildings were damaged. The house occupied by a saddler named Vowles was unroofed, and the chimney…
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COOKTOWN, Monday.—The steamer Katoomba arrived here at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. Captain M'Lean was unable to land the passengers and cargo for Port Douglas, in…
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The Fiji Argus gives the following particulars of a cyclone that passed over Fiji on the 11th December:â "In Levuka, the barometer, which stood at 29·80 at 9 a.m., had fallen by 5 o'clock in the afternoon as low as 29·50…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Extensive Floods at Daintree River. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
The biggest floods yet known have occurred at Daintree River, which rose forty feet during the night of the 12th, sweeping the camps away. Bullocks and cedar were washed out to sea, and it is feared that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Gale in the North
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The heavy gale which commenced yesterday morning still continues, and there is a very heavy sea on off moreton Bay. The Somerset and Elamang, steamers,…
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A cyclone passed over Fiji on December 11, doing more or less damage everywhere. The destruction of native property was greater than that of the European. The whole of the banana plantations were laid level with the ground,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Proposal [?]Itigate Flood's the Hunte
Among the papers recently issued from the Government Printing Office is a memo. from Mr. C. W. Darley, Assistant-Engineer to the Engineer-in-Chief for Harbours and Rivers, respecting the proposition to mitigate the floods…
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An article, by C. Halford Thomson, on the above interesting subject appears in the Gentleman's Magazine for November, from which we take the following extract:—"The New York Herald Bureau receives reports not only from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chimborazo in a Gale
LONDON, February 11.—The Chimborazo, steamer, shortly after her departure from Plymouth on sunday, the 8th instant, encountered severe weather, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chimborazo in a Gale. London, February 10
The Chimborazo, str., shortly after her departure from Plymouth on Sunday, the 8th instant, encountered severe weather, and was compelled to return to port, after losing four…
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The Chimborazo (s.), shortly after her departure from Plymouth on Sunday, the 8th instant, encountered severe weather, and was compelled to return to port, after losing four…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone at New Caledonia. (From Our Correspondent.) Noumea, Feb. 7
During the night of the 23rd January the weather became so threatening that the most experienced persons felt the approach of a storm of no ordinary character. On the morning of the 24th it blew from the S.E. At 10 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disastrous Cyclone at New Caledonia. Great Destruction of Property and Loss of Life. Noumea, February 4, 1880
TRULY, fortune does not smile upon our unhappy colony. During the last few years, a series of calamities has fallca upon us caiculated to appal the stontest hearts. culminating on Saturday, January…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chimborazo in a Gale. London, Feb. 10
The Chimborazo (s.), shortly after her departure from Plymouth on Sunday, the 8th instant, encountered severe weather, and was compelled to return to port, after losing four…
Continued on Trove, page 318 →Cyclone at New Caledonia. Loss of 14 Vessels and 16 Lives. Noumea, Feb. 7
During the night of the 23rd January the weather became so threatening that the most experienced persons felt the approach of a storm of no ordinary character. On the morning of the 24th it blew from the S.E. At 10 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 302 →Disastrous Cyclone at New Caledonia. Great Destruction of Property and Loss of Life. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Noumea, February 4, 1880
TRULY, fortune does not smile upon our unhappy colony. During the last few years, a series of calamities has fallen upon us, calculated to appeal the stoutest hearts, culminating on Saturday, January…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Cyclone in New Caledonia and the Society Islands
A terrible cyclone occurred in the above localities on the 24th January, resulting, so far as is known, in the loss of Fourteen vessels in the vicinity of Noumea and the death of sixteen persons. Our correspondent at Noumea sends us…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—There have been heavy rains in the country districts around Rockhampton, and the railway line is flooded between Dingo and the Comet River. A quantity of…
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