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Very disastrous floods and a violent gale have been experienced in the Hawke's Bay district. A A large tract of country is under water, and much damage to property is reported. During the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--On Sunday night a storm, the severest within the memory of living inhabitants, broke over the Hawke's Bay district. The damage done everywhere…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Wednesday. On Sunday night the Hawke's Bay district was visited by the severest storm ever experienced there by living residents. Everywhere great damage has been done to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--Yesterday forenoon I received from Mr. Walter F. Gale, F.R.A.S., of Paddington, a telegram to the effect that he had found a comet in the constellation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WALGETT, Friday. The town is surrounded with flood waters. A man named Harris, a Queensland' drover, was drowned while crossing the Castlereagh River at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TOWNSVILLE, Friday.--The steamer Kings wear, from Maryborough with coal, had a trying time between Percy Island and Whitsunday Passage. She encountered a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An exceptionally heavy gale and disastrous floods have been experienced in the Hawkes Bay district. Enormous seas during the height of the gale swept the Napier breakwater, and did…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →TOWNSVILLE, Saturday. The steamer Kings wear, which has just arrived from Maryborough, reports encountering a terrific gale between Percy Island and Whistsunday Passage. The seas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy floods prevail in the Herberson district. Over eight inches of rain have fallen in the past 24 hours. Large tracts of country are submerged. The floods were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TOWNSVILLE, Sunday.--Last night and early this morning a gale blew off the coast at the rate of 65 miles an hour. The sea was at high tide, and frequently broke over the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Monday. The following telegram, dated Friday, has been received from Cooktown by the portmaster: " A southeast gale has been blowing since 10 o'clock last night. Two thirds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Portmaster has received the following official telegram from Cooktown, dated Friday:— "A south-east gale has been blowing since 10 o'clock last night. Two-thirds of the inner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Monday.--The Railway Department has received a telegram from Cairns reporting a terrific gale and heavy rain on Friday night, by which extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram received by the Railway Department from Cairns gives particulars of some extensive damage done on Friday night last during a terrific gale. Numerous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A strong gale, with heavy rain, has been experienced at Townsville, doing a good deal of damage. The Burdekin River is in high flood. The water was 20ft, over the railway bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WALGETT,, Monday. The flood-waters are at a standstill. Fridays Sydney mail arrived 33 hours late. The coach and passengers were left in the flood-water; the horses were nearly drowned,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Tuesday. News received from Townsville states that the Burdekin River is in high flood, and much damage has been done there. On Sunday traffic with Charters Towers was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received from the captains of coastal vessels which were detained in Northern ports during the gale to the effect that the disturbance was very violent at Cairns and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Throughout the western portions of this country a change has taken place in the weather, and unsettled conditions prevail. At Nyngan, Cobar, Molong, and Wilcannia rain set in yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Collector of Customs has received an advice from Wooroorooka, on the southern border of Queensland, that very high floods, nearly as high as the 1890 floods, are being experienced there…
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