English and Foreign News. Tue German Empress and the Floods
The recent journey of the Empress Victoria to the inundated districts of Brandenburg and Posen resembles a triumphal progress. She was greeted everywhere…
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Floods in China
ADELAIDE, This Day.--Mr. Way Lee, who started a subscription list for the…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. --The weather during the past three days has undergone a total change. Heavy squalls and driving rain have been almost continuous. A heavy sea…
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Severe gales are raging along the coast. The Valetta took 68 hours to come from Adelaide. The Copsefeed, a barque from Mauritius, had her maintop-gallantmast…
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I sat and watch'd the walls of night With cracks of sudden lightning glow, And listen'd while with clumsy might The thunder wallow'd to and fro…
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BROUGHTON CREEK. This Day.--A terrific westerly gale raged here for four hours on Tuesday night partially wrecking several buildings, [?] weather is now…
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CROOKWELL, This Day.--Snow began to fall at eleven o'clock but night, and continues up to the present. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches…
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QUEANBRTAN, This Day.--Another heavy snow storm fell last night, and the weather is still bitterly cold. OEERON, This Day.--Snow fell…
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The winter has come at last. It was very cold in Sydney yesterday, the thermometer in the morning being 48deg., and throughout the southern portions of the colony large quantities…
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WOLLONGONG, Thursday.--A westerly gale has been blowing since last night, the wind at times attaining hurricane force. In town the roofs of several houses have suffered to some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrific Gales Off the Coast of Ireland. Four Hundred French Fishermen Drowned. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, June 20
Tremendous gales have occurred on the coast of Iceland, where a large fleet of French fishing boats are always stationed. A large number of the boats were lost, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Floods in China. Desperate Condition of the Sufferers. Outbreak of an Alarming Rebellion. the Military Joining the Rebels. [By Cab E.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, June 21
An alarming rebellion has broken out amongst the sufferers by the late disastrous inundations of the Yellow River in China. The military troops are joining the ranks of…
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WOLLONGONG, Friday.--The westerly gale continued to blow with great violence throughout the whole of last night, doing additional damage. The gable of a brick dwelling on…
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London, June 20.— Tremendous gales have occurred on the coast of Ireland, whore a large fleet of French fishing boats are always stationed. A large number of the boats were lost and 400…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Terrible Gale at Broughton Creek. a Man Killed by a Falling Branch. Destructive Bush Fire. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Broughton Creek
The westerly gale which was reported to have abated, returned with great force on Wednesday night, and continued throughout yesterday and till carly this morning. At Jasper's Brush, three miles from here, a bush fire raged,…
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SHOALHA[?]EN, This Day.--The westerly winds have now abated. Several other losses in stock, fencing, &c., are reported. An extent of over eight miles of splendid…
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Writing of his "amateur" days, Mr. Corney Grain, in an amusing article entitled "A Little Music" in Murray's Magazine, relates the following experience:—…
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Disastrous floods are reported to have suddenly occurred in the towns of Leare and Silao, in Mexico. In the night the houses fell, and buried the sleepers. A…
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LONDON, Wednesday.--Most disastrous foods have occurred in Mexico, causing great loss of life and destruction of property. It is reported that 1500 fatalities…
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Disastrous floods have taken place in Mexico. Fifteen hundred persons have been drowned…
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