A Mountain Storm. Springwood
A grand thunderstorm burst over the mountains last evening. Locally the lightning was awfully vivid, and rain fell for about five hours, terminating towards…
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563 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 29
The Floods at Townsville. 26 Inches of Sain in 24 HOURS
TOWNSVILLE Tuesday.—The weather has cleared up for the present. The damage done to the town is very great. It will take £1OOO to effect repairs. The rainfall was quite…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Flood at Townsville. Great Damage to the Town. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Brisbane
A telegram from Townsville states that the weather has cleared up for the present. The damage done to the town by the flood is very great, and it will take £1000 to effect repairs. The…
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TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday.--The western breakwater has been slightly damaged atone end by the flood, and at the eastern jetty some rough stone of the protective works…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods at Townsville. the Lighter Florence Elliott. Offers of Aid From Charters Towers. The Demolished Church. TOWNSVILLE
The damage done by the floods to the meat-freezing works is insignificant. Messrs. Howard Smith and Co.'s lighter Florence Elliott, which was stranded during the gale,…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--Howard Smith s lighter, the Florence Elliott, which stranded at Townsville during the recent gale and floods, has been floated. An average will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Safe Places in Thunderstorms
ACCORDING to Professor Rowland, of Baltimore, who has recently been lecturing on the subject, the safest of all places in a thunderstorm is an iron bedstead. Lying on this, one is in a kind of…
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A TELEGRAM received Townsville, Queensland, on Wednesday, runs:— The weather has cleared up for the present. The damage done to the town is very great. It will take £1000 to effect…
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Serious floods are reported from Townsville. Heavy rain continued there all day Saturday and yesterday. About 9 o'clock yesterday morning the downpour increased, and for several hours the…
Continued on Trove, page 236 →Clairvoyancy. Stories of the Spirit Land. Visions of Death and Disaster--By Flood and Field--The Phenoman of Seeing Friends Hundreds of Miles Away
AMONG his "Real Ghost Stories" series Mr. Stead has the following:-- When I was staying the other day at Orchardlea, in Windsor Forest, I did most…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland News. Floods at Townsville. Considerable Damage. The Country Districts. Commercial Intelligence. City Markets. News of the Week. BRISBANE, January 25. Floods at Townsville
Heavy rain commenced to fall at Townsville on Saturday morning, and continued until Monday, when one vast sheet of water extended from a foot of Castle Hill to the ranges, a few miles…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Gale in the English Channel. a German Mail Steamer Ashore. 300 Passengers Rescued in Lifeboats. Other Maritime Disasters
LONDON, Monday Night.--A severe gale is raging in the English Channel, and numerous wrecks are reported. The North-German Lloyd's mail steamer…
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While America, in some parts short of rain, has been carrying out rain-producing experiments, it is interesting to note that in France the latest experiments are of a directly opposite nature. In…
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On the voyage of the schooner Welcome from Kalpara to Sydney some very heavy weather was encountered. During a hard southerly gale the mate. Charles Helander, who was standing aft,…
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FROM Townsville, Queensland, where something like £10,000 damage was done to public buildings alone, we learn that a meeting of catholics has been held to decide upon the steps to be taken for…
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AUCKLAND, Monday. -- Heavy gales and rains, followed by floods, are reported from the South Island. Great damage to crops is feared…
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AUCKLAND, Tuesday.—Very heavy rains have fallen in the Canterbury and North Otago districts, and alarming floods have supervened. The damage in the Taieri district has been very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Weather. a Change to Heavy Thunderstorms. Intense Heat in the Country
Almost blinding lightning and deafening peals of thunder occurred between 3 and 4 o'clock yesterday morning. The sky were a threatening appearance for some time before, but at a few minutes to 3 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Floods in New Zealand. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Auckland
Phenomenally heavy rain has fallen in Canterbury and North Otago, and it is feared the crops have suffered serious damage. Alarming floods have occurred in the latter district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand. the South Island Floods. Great Damage -- Two Lives Lost
AUCKLAND, Tuesday. -- Later information regarding the floods in the Canterbury and Otago districts (South island), show that…
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