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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-On Tuesday afternoon a tremendous flood, accompanied by loss of life and considerable damage to property, occurred at Castlemaine. Shortly after mid-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.-Floods have occurred in the north of the colony through heavy rain yesterday. At Wilpena an inch and a half fell. Parts of the railway lines were washed away, both near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The most disastrous floods that have occurred since 1854 have taken place nt Castlemaine, involving loss of several lives and the destruction of thousands of pounds worth of property. Shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, This Day.-- Heavy floods occurred in several parts of the colony yesterday. At Castlemaine, while some sports were proceeding on the camp…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A tremendous flood, accompanied by loss of life, occurred at Castlemaine at about 4 o'clock this afternoon. It rained very hard for a short time, filling the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--After a long period of drought the weather broke up to-day throughout the colony, and excessively heavy rains are recorded from the north, north-east, west and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The rainfall averages received at the Melbourne Observatory are only made up to noon each day, and are therefore scarcely to be accepted as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Towards morning Clara was aroused from her slumbers by a violent crash, and she started from her berth with a feeling of bewilderment at the strange place in which she found herself. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.-The reports of the effect of the floods in the country, on the railway lines, have been, it is alleged, greatly exaggerated. The railway authorities state that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reports are coming in from all parts of the damage done by the floods. The Broken Hill traffic will probably be suspended for a week, owing to the country between Petersburg and Orroroo…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The area of yesterday's flood in Castlemaine was of many miles' extent. The district presented a picture of desolation to-day. Fortunately, the first flood occurred in daylight. It was thought at first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The rain is still falling heavily in all parts of the colony. At Maldon the TARRANGOWER TIMES office is Hooded, and the main street wrecked. At Sandhurst a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, This Day.--The damage done by the floods in various parts of the colony as very great, The Port Darwin telegraph line is interrupted beyond Beltana, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Further heavy rains are reported to-day from a large number of stations. The fall in Adelaide during the night was such as to flood the streets. The damages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, This Day.-- The rain still continues. The Yarra has risen 6ft since Sunday. Boatmen on the river fear an unprecedented flood, and are making…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-day news from Brisbane is telegraphed to the effect that Mr. Wragge, the Queensland Government Astronomer, predicts squalls and storms along our coast, which are to reach the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the event of a heavy downpour of rain, the portion of Croydon south of the railway station, and sometimes called the "Seven Miles Hollew," becomes inundated, to the extreme danger of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.-The reports of the effect of the floods in the country, on the railway lines, have been, it is alleged, greatly exaggerated. The railway authorities state that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROKEN HELL, Thursday.-Owing to line between Petersburg and Nackara being damaged by heavy rain, trains which left Broken Hill for Adelaide on Sunday night, on Monday at 7.10…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Further accounts of the calamitous floods at Castlemaine estimate the damage to property at not less than £20,000. The rain commenced to fall at 8…
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