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Mr. BRUNKER moved: "That the official reports of several qualified professional experts, recommending the excavation and removal of Green Rocks as an essential element in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our South Head correspondent telegraphed last evening:--"At 9.15 o'clock this evening the signal master at the Heads received a message from the Water Police to the effect that the police had…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON. October, 30.—A body of British cavalry under Major-General French prevented the Boers from advancing upon Pieter's Railway Station, on the Durban line, some miles south of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tugela River is in a flooded condition owing to the water brought from the mountains during the late spring rains. This has seriously impeded the Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamers Konoowarra and Barrabool, which arrived at Sydney early yesterday morning from Brisbane, met the full force of the recent gales on the run down the coast. Of the two vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From the accounts which we are enabled to publish from various correspondents in Behar (says the "Englishman") it transpire that the great cyclone which raged over a large part of Bengal on Sunday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamers which arrived from Brisbane yesterday, reported encountering, the full force of the heavy S.W. gale that has prevailed along the coast during the past few days. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday Afternoon. -- The River Tugela is in flood, and this fact is impeding the Boer attempt to get south of Ladysmith, and cut off communication with Maritzburg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy floods are reported from the Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay districts. A coach was capsized crossing a flooded stream, and the passengers had very narrow escapes. Parts of Clive…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The accident to the French mail steamer Tanais, which put into Moreton Bay on Monday with her rudder carried away, was of a sensational character, and, according to the stories…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following narticulars of storms at Valpara[?]so reached Sydeny yesterday:—On the night of Augusts a strong northerly gale blew, the seas [?]shing right across the emba[?]kment. There was a large quantiry of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A week or thereabouts slipped past very uneventfully after the incidents I have narrated in my last chapter. We heart no news whatever of the departed Stevens, but then it is true we did not…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →There were some intervals of sunshine in Sydney yesterday, and the rain gave good promise of breaking off, but a few heavy showers occurred during the afternoon, and later on it settled down dirty again. At 9 a.m. 335…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILCANNIA, Monday--A most extraordinary hailstorm struck Wilcannia at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The approach was heralded by four heavy claps of thunder. A sharp, short, terrific,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams from various country centres in Victoria show that the thunderstorms of yesterday and to-day were very destructive. Pyramidhill reports hail as big as hens' eggs. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SINGLETON, Tuesday.--Singleton was yesterday afternoon struck by a cyclonic storm, the like of which was unprecedented here. Towards lunch hour it was noticed that a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The colony has participated in another general rainfall, principally the result of thunderstorms. The thunderstorms in the western district were very severe, and in many instances telegraphic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--A terrific thunderstorm broke over the town between 1 and 2 o'clock to-day. The wind blew with tremendous velocity, and the rain came down in sheets,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A violent thunderstorm broke over the city and district at half-past 1 to-day. The thunder was accompanied by most vivid lightning, terrific wind, and exceptionally…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Edden referred in the Assembly this morning, to the disastrous storm in Newcastle. He asked the Premier to make inquiries into the mutter with the object of…
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