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987 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 50
June in London was a month to be remembered. The cables told us of the remarkable downpour of rain, the rising of the Thames, the inundation of pretty summer bungalows…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News has reached the Sydney underwriters that the barque Magda, bound from Fredrickstadt to Fremantle, has put into Chrisiansand in a leaky condition. She left port on July 10, and shortly afterwards fell in with a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, August 5, 3 p.m.—Disastrous floods have occurred at Chefoo, China. Many houses were destroyed, and bridges swept away, seven hundred persons being the peninsula of Shantung, at the entrance to the Gulf of Pechili. The Chinese town is built on the sandy shore, and has exceedingly dirty streets. The foreign quarter is in some sense…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous floods have occurred at Chifu, in the north of Shangtung, China. Many houses were destroyed' and bridges were swept away…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous floods have occurred at Chifu, Northern China. Many houses were destroyed and bridges swept away. 700 persons were drowned and 2000 have been reduced to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Floods in Chefoo have destroyed many houses and swept away bridges. Seven hundred persons were drowned, while 2000 are starving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A year and thirteen days on the passage from Cardiff to San Francisco is the record made by the French barque Duchesse de Berry. News was brought to Sydney yesterday, by the R.M.S…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Exceptionally heavy rains have fallen throughout the State during the last few days. In Perth over 2½[?]n were registered within 24 hours. During Thursday the water in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A young man named Ewart Williams, who happens to be a son of Mr. Williams, M.L.A. for Alma, was recently promoted from being a labourer at Flizroy Dock receiving £2 2s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fears are expressed for the safety of the French cruiser Durien Delagraviers, which was at the Antilles (West India) during the recent cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.--A terrible cyclone has swept oyer Jamaica, and utterly devastated the town of Port Antonio, on the north-east of the island. Many fatalities have been reported…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, August 14, 3.10 p.m.—Sixty fatalities occurred during the recent cyclone in Jamaica. The damage by the cyclone is estimated at. £3,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Advices received by the "Sunday Times" yesterday stated that storms and floods were being experienced in the lower portion of the North Island, N.Z…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cyclone devastated Port Antonio, on the north-cast coast of Jamaica. Many people were killed. There have been enormous losses of fruit…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Sixty fatalities occurred during the recent cyclone in Jamaica. The damage by the cyclone is estimated at £3,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sixty persons perished in the recent cyclone in Jamaica. The damage done by the cyclone is estimated at £3,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BEGA, Tuesday.—A peculiar storm, accompanied by heavy wind and light, driving rain, passed over the town last night, although till after midnight it was frosty, and the sky clear and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, August 18.—The relief of the sufferers in Jamaica by the recent cyclone is progressing satisfactorily. 3.25 p.m.—The Government is spending £20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letters received from the island of Mitiaro, in the Pacific, report a terrific thunderstorm there recently. During the height of the storm a meteorite fell to the earth, and buried itself…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It has been raining incessantly for 35 days in the west of Ireland. The bulk of the stops are left totting…
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