The Maitland Floodgates. (By Telegraph.)
WEST MAILAND, Saturday.--Yesterday forenoon a deputation consisting of the Mayor and Aldermen Crothers, Brown and Gillies, interviewed Mr. Brunker, member for East Maitland,…
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Heavy Thunderstorm at Germanton. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Germanton
On Friday evening a terrific thunderstorm visited the town, accompanied by vivid lightning: flashes and hailstones of unusual dimensions. For about two hours the rain fell in torrents, registering two inches ten points. Great…
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A terrific gale of unprecedented violence burst over the West Indian Islands on Sunday, doing an immense amount of damage to property and…
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A terrific storm passed over Yass this evening, at 7 o'clock, and was accompanied by the heaviest fall of rain known for the past 20 years. Cooma-street was submersed, and all the houses on the west side of the street were…
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Port MACQUARIE, This Day.--The flood has done but very slight damage…
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ALBURY, Wednesday. --The district was visited by a heavy storm last night, causing cosiderable damage among the vineyards, and orchards and uprooting many trees in the town…
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The early part of to-day in the cty was delightfully cool compared with what it has been lately. In some of the country districts, however, there has been a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Storm in the Albury District. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Albury
On Tuesday night a heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by wind that blew with exceptional violence, passed, over this district, and the orchards and vineyards are reported to have suffered considerably. In the town the street trees…
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NYNGAN, This Day.--A great rush of water is reported as coming down the Upper Bogan. It is said to be the greatest since 1578. Fears are entertained for the…
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A terrific gale raged yesterday along the Irish coast, and many vessels, principally small crafts which encountered the storm, are reported to have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Floods in China. Enormous Loss of Life. Two Millions of People Homeless. [By Cable.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 5
Intelligence has been received to the effect that a great overflow of the Hoang-Ho, or Yellow River, in China, has taken place, inundating a large tract of country…
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"Is your mistress in, Mary?" inquired the head of the house, as he came home. " No, sorr. The dressmaker spoiled her now silk; an' she's gone there to sec about it."…
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London, Jan. ,5.— Intelligence has been received to the effect that a great overflow of the Hoang-Ho, or the Yellow River, in China, has taken place, inundating a large tract of country…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MISCELLANEOUS. Disastrous Flood in China. Immense Loss of Life. London, Dec. 5
The river Hoang-ho has overflowed its banks, and drowned more than 100,000 persons. It is reported that the flood has left two millions of people homeless…
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Christmastide this year made its appearance with all the severity of an Australian summer, the morning, in fact, being so oppressively hot and close that the poorest weather prophet had no difficulty in foretelling an early change in…
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Mr. A. Holden, of Penshurst, Gresford, sends us a diagram and description of an invention of his which he calls the "poor man's flood fence." It consists of posts in an upright position, fixed in…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The river Danube has rapidly risen through a sudden thaw and some alarming floods have taken place…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods in Queensland. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
On Tuesday last there were 8ft. of water over the Endeavour Bridge, which was much damaged. The cylinder is bent, part of the hand-rail is gone, and the superstructure is now the shape of a boomerang. The…
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During the progress of a terrific thunderstorm at Tunis, on the coast of Northern Africa, a magazine in one of the forts occupied by the French troops…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day.--A terrific thunderstorm occurred at 3 o'clock this morning. It rained at intervals heavily…
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