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LONDON, Friday.--The allies are making progress in the advance towards Pekin, despite the transport difficulties which hate to be surmounted…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Baron Czikann, Austrian Ambassador at Pekin, on August 4, cabled that the Austrians and the French were defending the French legation, which was being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The dyke waters with which the Chinese flooded the Intervening country to Pekin are now subsiding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the early part of last month, when the floods in this colony were everywhere doing damage and destroying lives, a young man named Julius, a native of Sweden, was drowned in National Park…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WINDSOR, Tuesday.-The flood mitigation scheme proposed here has had a very different completion put upon it since the residents of Liverpool have protested against the diversion of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy rains continue, accompained by strong wind. The low-lying parts of the suburb of Inveresk are under water, and the condition of part of the embankment is considered weak. Men have been put…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LAUNCESTON, Wednesday.--Heavy rains continue throughout the colony. For the last 24 hours the record has been 87 points. All rivers are rapidly rising, and some low-lying parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fierce nor'-westerly gale was blowing as the 12,000 ton White Star twin screw steamer came up the harbour last night. The shrieking of the squalls through the ringing of the ships could be heard at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday a deputation was introduced to the Minister for Works by Mr. Morgan, M.P., when it was requested that a special grant should be made for the purpose of repairing the roads in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The weather in Sydney on Thursday night was very unpleasant. A very strong north-west wind blew, raising clouds of dust in the city and suburbs, and "white tops" on the harbor. The ferry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The proposal emanating from the Richmond Council, and which is by no means a new idea, relative to diverting the surplus waters of the Nepean into the George's River Valley, in order…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →This Council met on Tuesday. Present: Mayor Christiansen, Aldermen H. Serivener, Perry, Moreshead, Watt, Smith, Chapman, and MaClure…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Murray is now running bank high, and all the low-lying land it submerged, Yesterday two young men, Charles Wallder and Adam Yule, left Albury to rescue some stock, which were in a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Yesterday afternoon the Public Works Committee Considered their report on the Tuckian flood escape scheme, by which it is proposed to lessen the frequency of floods in the Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALBURY, Tuesday.--The river Murray Is running a banker, and this evening is 12ft 7in. above summer level, and rising slowly. The flood Is caused by heavy rains in the watersheds of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The report of the Public Works Committee on the Tuckian Flood Escape Scheme was laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly last night. It stated that the scheme was designed to protect…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The reported of the Public Works Committee on the Tuckian flood escape was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon. It was pointed out that "the scheme is designed to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Moresby, of Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Company's line, had a terrible experience between Sydney and New Britain, on her Island cruise. The captain says it was the roughest…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Liverpool Council has declined to attend the conference to be initiated by the Richmond Council to consider a proposal, emanating from that body, to divert portion of the waters of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A very large gathering of farmers and dairymen was held on Saturday last for the purpose of considering the decision of the Public Works Committee regarding the Tucklan flood relief scheme. A…
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