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At a public meeting held to-night, presided over by the Mayor, resolutions were carried expressing sympathy with the flooded-out people on the coast districts. A subscription [?]at was opened. The town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unfortunately for the cause of charity the Weather was of such an unfavorable nature last night that entertainments given in various portions of the city and suburbs in aid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. R. Towns and Co. have received from a friend who is largely interested in commercial circles in Noumea the following particulars relating to the hurricane…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Now that the subject of floods is so keenly brought home to everyone by the Queensland and Mainland inundations, a description of a flood in Monmouthshire in the year 1607 may…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There has been a heavy rainfall in the district, and the river is again in flood. At Copmanhurst the river is up 21ft., and still raining. At Tabulam it is up 23ft., and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →D. M'Auliffe, manager of the Stockton Colliery, was fined £20 and costs at the police court yesterday for permitting the minors to return to work in the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LISMORE, Monday.--Over 6in. of rain has fallen since Saturday. The weather is now showery. The river rose rapidly during last night, and is now up 20ft. and rising slowly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The R.M.S. Cuzco (of the Orient line) was caught in a cyclone on her last homeward passage. A report from Colombo says:--"Leaving Alhany on the 24th [?] she encountered rough weather, with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some of the pearling fleet in Torres Str[?]ts were caught in a heavy storm last month, and had an exciting time of it. The pearling craft were at work in Princess Charlotte Bay, when the wind steadily freshened from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MILTON, Wednesday.—A public meeting was held in the council chambers last night, the Mayor presiding, for the purpose of raising funds to help the sufferers by the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The swimming carnival which took place at the Newcomen-street baths, Newcastle, in aid of the sufferers by the recent floods in the north, was in every way a success there being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Minister for Railways has approved of the Chief Engineer's plans in connection with the damaged bridges at Indooroopilly and Antigua. Tenders are to be called as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland, Tuesday.--The Mayor (R. A. Young) has received donations totalling £1343 towards the local flood relief fund, including £105 from Toowoomba (Q.)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Sir Thomas [?] wraith has approved of the plans for the reconstruction of the Indooroopilly and Antigua railway bridges, damaged by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.—Subscriptions to the Maitland Flood-Relief Fund continue to come in steadily. Up to present the Mayor of West Maitland has received £1740 in money, besides…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—With your permission I would like to suggest to the general committee of the New South Wales Flood Belief Fund the advisability of adopting a house to house system of collecting, as by this means…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the effects of the recent heavy rains in this district was to cause an extraordinary landslip at Bowman's Creek, which has entirely altered the physical character of the locality. The place where…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The mistress of the Cleveland-street Superior Public Girls' School has forwarded to the Mayor the sum of £15 10s, proceeds of concert Given by the pupils on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—In to-day's paper appears an account of the devastation wrought in the New Hebrides by the disastrous cyclone which occurred early in the March. The letter of the Rev. Robert Lamb, M.A., [?].D.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At a meeting of the Flood Relief Committee to-day the Rev. A. J. Webb moved a resolution in favour of remitting £4000 to the Mayor of Sydney for the relief of the sufferers in New South Wales…
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