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During the floods at Albilbah station, near Isisford, the police resoued Patriok Burke on Sunday, who had been up a tree for 24 hours without food. James Wilson, who had been on an island for nine days,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The heavy rains in the northern parts of the colony have stopped all communication. The Burke district of the Flinders country is in a better condition than it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Thursday. -- A general meeting of the floods relief fund committee was held this afternoon to consider the progress report of the executive and the recommendations for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →March 11 and 12.—Prince Alfred Yacht Club, race t[?] Wollongong, for Dr. Milford's prize. March 12.—Canvas Dingey Club, committee race. Balmain Sailing Club, 16ft and 20ft boats…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →The latest reports show that the floods continue on the Central Railway. The Comet River rose 5 feet. The Nogoa was 8 feet over the rails on Friday. The damages to the line are being repaired as far as…
Continued on Trove, page 544 →Our Grafton correspondent writes on the 5th instant:—What remnant of crops remain look tolerably well, but when I speak of maize it seems so very inconsiderable as to amount to little more than what would be required under…
Continued on Trove, page 540 →The Herald's Correspondent telegraphed from Brisbane on Tuesday that during the floods at Albilbah station, near Isisford, the police rescued Patrick Bourke on Sunday,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An official telegram from Burketown, near the mouth of the Albert River, Gulf of Carpentaria, dated Saturday last, reports that on the 5th instant a heavy rain commenced to full at 9 a.m. The gale gradually…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following telegram, received by the Superintendent of Telegraphs, was posted at the Post-office yesterday : - "Burketown, March 5. Rainfall from 9 to 11 a.m., 184 points…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday.--The Colonial Treasurer has received a telegram confirming the message received from the telegraph manager at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How many of our cosily-seated readers have been surprised by a genuine dust-storm? We do not refer to the local " brickfielder. " Everyone haa experienced that urban visitation, and wished himself further. But…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, a terrifie cyclone commenced blowing, accompanied by heavy rain from S.E. It gradually increased in violenco up to about 2 o'clock, when fearful destruction commenced. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, a terrific cyclone commenced blowing, accompanied by heavy rain from S.E. It gradually increased in violence up to about 2 o'clock, when fearful destruction commenced. The…
Continued on Trove, page 597 →CAIRNS, Friday.--The body of Thomas Richard Heffings Hook was found this morning in Blackfellows' Creek, Mulgrave, on the Herberton-road, he having been drowned while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ROCKHAMPTON, March 1.—Weare having a real "old man flood." Hitherto most of the rain has been only local, and the several freshes there have been in the river have caused little excitement. But to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Terrific hailstorms occurred in several parts of the colony yesterday. In the north-eastern district, near Beech-worth Junction, the train from Albury to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy rain set in at 1 p.m. yesterday, and continued almost without cessation. The river here is now right over the goods shed on the public wharf. At Irvington some 40 bags of seed, oats, &c., sent by the Government and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--There has been a heavy fall of rain in the hills round Hawker and about three chains of the railway line have been washed away at Moralana Creek, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →April 2.—East Sydney Rowing Club Regatta. Amateur Canvas Dingey Club Consolation Race. Balmain Salling Club, Open Boats, 20ft and upward. Prince Alfred Yacht Club, Race to Lorg Reef…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Heavy rain set in at 1 p.m. yesterday, and continued almost without cessation. The river here is now right over the goods shed on the public wharf. At Irvington some 40 bags of seed, oats, &c, sent by the Government and…
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