The Recent Hurricane at Samoa. Scene in the Bay the Day After the Storm
THE TRENTON. THE VANDALIA…
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Those Floodgates
An officer from the Harbor and Rivers Department was specially sent to Parramatta on Monday to have the river floodgates opened. With great difficulty this was effected, but only to a…
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THE HARBORS and Rivers Department has at last become alive to the necessity of in some way obviating the frightful nuisance created by the…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday.-Heavy rains have fallen in the metropolitan district during the last few days, but the fall culminated on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in an almost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in South Australia. Great Damage. Adelaide, This Day
Very heavy rains have fallen all over the colony. Numerous floods have done considerable damage to the railways. The rivers Broughton and Wakefield…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in South Australia--great Damage to Property. (By Telegraph.)
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Since Sunday night magnificent rains have fallen all over the colony. The result has been that the floods of a week or two ago have been repeated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Weather. Raining Throughout Australia. Floods in South Australia
The rain continues to fall slowly but steadily in this colony but almost too heavily in other colonies, especially in South Australia. In that colony many stations report from 2in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods Near Adelaide. Two Ladies Drowned. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide
Numerous cases of narrow escapes from drowning are reported. At Two Wells, 24 miles north of Adelaide, Mrs. and Mist Dawkens wore drowned, Mrs. Dawkens is a daughter-in-law of the Rev…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods in South Australia. Immense Damage and Much Distress. (By Telegraph.)
ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The country towns report that the rain has now cleared np and the floods are abating. The damage done is immense and much distress prevails, especially…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Weathered the Storm
ADELAIDE, This Day.--The yacht Wanderer, from Melbourne, is lying off Port Adelaide, dismasted. She met with heavy weather, and has been battering about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Calliope Cyclone. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I have just road the "flowing sheet" of my old friend Captain Trouton on the above. His oriticisms confirms my first impression on reading of the terrible disaster at Apia harbour, viz., that, either the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The South Australian Floods. (By Telegraph.)
ADELAIDE, Friday.--The body of Miss Dawkins, who was drowned by the flood, at Two Wells on Wednesday, was found to-day. Mrs. Dawkins' body has not been recovered,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bonanza King. Gone to Another Land. How Flood Grew Rich
JAMES C. FLOOD, one of the San Francisco "Bonanza" firm of mining millionaires, died at the Grand Hotel in Heidelberg last month at 63 years of age, of Bright's…
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Mr. Chae, Egeson, of the Government Observatory, whose forecast of the weather for the first part of this month proved to be remarkably correct, writes:--"We are now entering…
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BRISBANE, This Day. -- The trading schooner Lucy and Adelaide have arrived at Cooktown from Sad Est and Samarai. The reports from the goldfields are more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Schooner Myrtle in a Gale. (By Telegraph.)
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The schooner Lucy Adelaide arrived at Cooktown to-night from Sud Est and Samari. The reports she brings from the goldfields are more favorable. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australian News. The Late Floods
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.-As it would be utterly impossible for the district councils and county corporations, owing to want of funds, to repair the enormous damage caused by the recent floods, the…
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A meeting of this committee was held in the Mayor's room, in the Town Hall, on Wednesday evening, to arrange for the final distribution of the fund. An apology was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More About Rains and Probable Floods
MR. Charles Egeson, of the Grovernment Observatory, whose forecast of the weather for the first part of this month proved to be remarkably correct, writes:—"We are now entering upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Floods Near Adelaide. Adelaide, April 18
Numerous cases of narrow escapes from drowsing are reported. At Two Wells, 24 miles north of Adelaide, Mrs. and Miss Dawkens were drowned. Mrs. Dawkens is a daughter-in-law of the Rev…
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