A Terrific Storm. Warm Coaching Experience. MERRIWA
A terrific thunderstorm passed over the vicinity of Gungal to Pike's Gall, between Merriwa and Muswellbrook, at noon yesterday. Trees were uprooted and stripped of…
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Fierce Storms in the North. Damage at Maitland. Big Blow at Newcastle
WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday Afternoon.—The fiercest storm experienced at Maitland for years occurred shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon, and although It only lasted in its greatest fury for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Storm at Adamstown. Collapse of the Roman Catholic School. Newcastle
During the height of the storm the Roman Catholic school building at Adamstown entirely collapsed, and a few minutes afterwards all that remained of the church- school was a huge mass of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Furious Gale. Experiences at Newcastle. a School House Collapses. a Boy Killed. Narrow Escape From Drowning
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--Between. 1 and 2 o'clock to-day Newcastle was visited by a perfect tornado from the west. During the morning the weather was exceptionally close and muggy, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrific Cyclone at Newcastle. Extensive Damage to Property. Over 300 Buildings Injured One Child Killed. Serious Collisions in the Harbour. a Schooner in Distress. Newcastle
A cyclone more disastrous in its results than any storm over experienced here passed over this district at 1.30 this afteruoou, and within a space of about 20 minutes damage to the extent of many…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Thunderstorm. Wellington
The heaviest thunderstorm that has taken place here for years passed over Wellington last night. The wind attained a great velocity, and the lightning was very vivid, but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Terrible Experience. The Hally Bayley in a Gale
It was a perilous experience that the schooner Hally Bayley had in the storm off Newcastle on Tuesday afternoon. On her arrival here yesterday her broken spars and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dust Storm at Sea. a Singular Experience
The steamer Macleay, which arrived from the Richmond River, had a singular experience during the passage. After rounding Seal Rocks yesterday she ran into a terrific S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle Cyclone. an Experience at Sea. the Hally Bayley Has a Trying Time
The schooner Hally Bayley, which was signalled off Newcastle on Tuesday in distress, was towed into port early yesterday morning by the steamer Sophia Ann, bearing traces of having had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Dust Storm at Sea
The uncommon sight of a dust storm at sea is reported by Captain Henderson, of the steamer Macleay. which arrived at Sydney early yesterday morning from the Richmond River. Had the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Recent Storms
SINGLETON, Friday.—One of the most remarkable incidents of Tuesday's storm was the case of a man who was seated on a horse talking to a farmer on the road. The disturbance was so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Country. Recent Hunter Cyclone
SINGLETON, Friday. -- A resident qualified to express an opinion states that, as the result of a tour of the districts of the Hunter Valley recently devastated by the cyclonic storm on Tuesday, that the damage amounts…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Steamer Westralia in a Storm
Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Company's Westralia, on her last trip across to Auckland from Sydney, had a fearful time of it. Gales were raging in the Tasman Sea, and the Westralia, good a scuboat as she is,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Terrible Gale at Newcastle. a Convent School Wrecked
A TORNADO visited Newcastle on Tuesday, causing considerable damage to buildings, while several vessels narrowly escaped shipwreck. During the storm the Adamstown Catholic school collapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →War in the Transvaal the Hen Editor As Special. Latest War Notes—By Private (and Confidential) Cable—A Hair Breadth Escape—Aha! (Also Ho, ho!)—Gumbo Storms the Position—The Hen Editor is Complimented by the General-in-Chief
Whon I informed Cumbe in casual tones that he was sitting on a loaded lyddite mine, he did not at first appear to commprehend the extreme humor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrific Storms
A terrific thunderstorm broke over. Horsham (Vic.) shortly before 5 o'clock on Monday. The hailstones were as large as cricket balls, many measuring l0in to llin…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ships That Pass in the Night. an Eventful Voyage. Two Gales Encountered
ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The barque Formosa, which arrived to-day from New York, reports having encountered a terrific hurricane, which started at midnight on September 30, and continued till…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Country News. a Storm at Pilliga. an Extraordinary Incident. Pilliga
An extraordinary incident occurred here last Monday evening Mr. E. J. Brady, who is at present touring the colonies in a covered waggon, was camping on the bank of the Namoi River, about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Beyond the Great South Wall. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Viii. Before T[?]e Gale
I stood beneath the bridge, holding on to a friendly stanchion, and gazing apathetically before me. I could see Waller's braw[?]y figure outlined upon the bridge, every movement of his muscles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Barque Disabled in a Storm
The American barque Adolf Obrig arrived in Hongkong recently from New York. On the 3rd October she encountered a typhoon in Balling-tang Channel, and lost her rudder and topsails,…
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