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Altogether 82 points of rain fell here yesterday. The flood water from Goonoo Goonoo last night entered the Feel River at Tamworth making a rise of 6ft. The rush of water was from the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TAMWORTH, Saturday.--Serviceable rain fell in Tamworth and environs yesterday, registering in the town 91 points. Pastoralists and agriculturists --in fact everybody-- is jubilant. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, September 29.—Storms continue to rage with unabated fury over Sicily. Troops are busy rescuing people and saving property…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new disturbance, similar to that which caused rain to fall in this State during the Past few days, was over "West Australia yesterday, and Mr. Russell stated last evening that he expected…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Further particulars relating to the cyclone in Sicily show that 60 persons were drowned by the floods in the town of Seicil. The damage wrought in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, September 29, 4 p.m.—Practically the whole of the northern portion of Martinique has been declared uninhabitable, owing to the eruptions of Mont Pelee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In S[?]ieli, Southern Sicily, as the result of the flooding of the town, 60 persons were drowned. The damage done in the Syracuse province by the cyclone and the floods, amounts to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The gale which swept over Algoa Bay, South Africa, at the beginning of this month is described as the worst experienced in the bay since the Charlotte, with troops on board, was wrecked,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Saturday last the following message came from Tamworth:—"Shortly after 7 o'clock last night the police received a telephone message from Goonoo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"I am going to vote for the Government,' said Mr. Levien, "because I think the Government is perfectly right. In my opinion Mr. Acting-Justice Rogers is a most conscientious,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →TAMWORTH, Tuesday.--A magisterial inquiry was held yesterday touching the circumstances of the death of Nicholas Rogencamp, whose dead body was found in the flooded river on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fairbairn's words, "Something tells me I shall never see this out," struck cold upon my heart. I was superstitious enough not to have liked his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No generally accorded theory of thunderstorms has as yet been built up (writes "Engineering"). In special cases we come, perhaps, near the real conditions. Thus Michie Smith has made a very…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Public Works Committee resumed its inquiry yesterday into the expediency of constructing works for the mitigation of the effects of floods in the Hunter River. Evidence was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Some day the water will leak out of a few trusts, and then the country will be wondering why the Government cannot prevent financial panics…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →How swiftly flies the noble craft, In stormy wind that blows abaft! Like sea-gull seeking friendly shore, The harbor finds, the voyage o'er…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the terrific cyclone in the Bay of Bengal last May, in which the steamers Camorta and Hermod went to the bottom with all hands, the Royal Indian Marine steamer Elphinstone…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Central Police Court on Friday afternoon wore an air of severe respectability. Instead of the ruddy glare lent by the red-nosed cobbers of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"It was the guns that did it." That, no doubt, was the explanation, half resentful, half proud with the pride of superior knowledge, of many members of the sodden multitude which splashed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Chemnitz, of the German-Australian line, which is now berthed at Woolloomooloo Bay, was at Algoa Bay during the great gale which swept over the port and…
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