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To the great regret of all distance runners, and to the surprise of not a few, the Cross-country Championship of New South Wales was postponed: on Saturday last owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The second fatal accident at thw Parramatta [?] Gates since their erection a short time ago took place yesterday afternoon, shortly after 1 o'clock. A boy named Albert James Hankestey, aged 8 years, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WENTWORTH, Tuesday.--There is every prospect of a very late shearing this year, as many of the wool sheds are under water. The mail steamer Fairy arrived on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY (Tuesday) about 1.30 p.m., a lad named Bertie Hawksley was drowned in the Parramatta River near the floodgates. It appears that the lad and two others…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WILCANNIA, Wednesday. -- The river continues almost stationary here, one day rising, the next falling, having fluctuated in this manner for the last three weeks. To-day's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The executive committee of the New South Wales Floods Relief Fund at its last meeting considered and dealt with a large number of applications for relief forwarded and recommended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The executive committee of this fund at its last meeting considered and dealt with a large number of applications for relief, forwarded and recomniended by the various local committees on the Darling, Clarence,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EAST MAITLAND, Thursday.--It has been contemplated for some time past to try and protect East Maitland from floods by constructing an embankment from the flood-gates to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, July 27.—A destructive cyclone passed over the town of Lawrence, in the State of Massachusetts. Ninety houses were shattered Twenty persona word killed, and 100 were…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Captain Philip, of the Aberdeen clipper Salamis, which arrived to-day from London, reports that while in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope he caught the edge of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When the river Darling is low, crossing a mob of cattle is a comparatively easy task; but when the waters extend for miles, as is at present the case, it requires considerable tact and pluck to…
Continued on Trove, page 234 →ADELAIDE, Friday.--Wires from a number of country towns report heavy rain, and several townships are flooded in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANOTHER drowning fatality, similar in its nature to one which happened in the same locality about 5 months ago, has to be recorded in connection with the flood gates on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Monday.—Captain Jorgensen, the captain of the Storm King, arrived at the Semaphore this morning. The voyage through the Great Australian Bight was very rough, two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Storm King lifeboat arrived this morning, after a heavy passage from Albany. At one time she was thrown on her beam, ends, and the after compartments filled. Captain Jorgenson and his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr H. B. Owon appeared on behalf of the respondent M'Masters, and moved that the order of Mr. Justice Foster, dated July 11, be confirmed. The motion was one by Arthur Gale to make absolute a rule…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Telegrams from Bairnsdale state that news has been received of terrific falls of snow in North Gippsland, the Australian Alps, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods Relief Committee met yesterday, Mr. John Young, J.P., in the chair. Thirty-one cases were dealt with, being from Ulmarra, Smithtown, Murwillumbah, Richmond River,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Floods Relief Committee met yesterday, Mr. Joint Young, J.P., in the chair. Thirty-one cases were dealt with, being from Ulmarra, Smithtown, Murwillumbah,…
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