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The Marine Department has received the following telegram from Geraldton:—"Heavy gale and floods. The pilot cutter sank at her moorings, and was smashed up. The Rock light and the Barniards Island light have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The mail coach which left Wilcannia at 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, due at broken Hill next afternoon at 3.30, only arrived on Wednesday night, after a very sensational experience. The coach…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It started raining after 1 o'clock yesterday; 170 points have been recorded to 9 o'clock this morning. It is the best rain which we have had for years. Nearly all the mine tanks are full. The copper mine big…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The almost unbroken spell of fine weather Which Kew South Wales has been enjoying for some time received a check during the past couple of days, for the whole of the State has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy and incessant rain fell in Adelaide yesterday morning, but cleared up in the afternoon. Towards midnight, however, rain set in, accompanied by a violent gale, which at 3 o'clock this morning blew with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Heavy rain, accompanied by severe thunder and lightning, fell over the city and throughout a great portion of the State on Saturday morning. The rain continued…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A thunderstorm occurred at Charters Towers tonight, 330 points falling in one hour. It did a lot of damage. The bridge carrying the watermain over Sheep-station Creek was washed away, and the water…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BROKEN-HILL, Sunday.--The Menindle mail, which left Broken-hill on Monday, did not reach its destination till Thursday night, having been stuck up at Quondong Hotel. Owing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A western storm of exceptional violence swept over Hobsons Bay on Sunday evening. Reports received from the headlands at nightfall stated that a strong south-westerly gale, with rough seas and fierce squalls,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mounted-constable Langley, who returned to barracks last night after visiting the soune of the Wilcannia cosch disaster, states that on Saturday afternoon a heavy thanderstorm passed over the country recently flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--The gale which raged in Port Phillip yesterday continued from the south-west during the night, and this morning the French mail steamer Dumbea, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In consequence of heavy rains a flood has occurred in the Thomson River. At Longreach the river rose till the water was 3ft over the bridge. The flood waters covered a great portion of the flat country. A lot of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In connection with the floods at Mackinlay, in the Gulf district, the Commissioner of Police to-day received a wire from Normanton that all those who were in danger have been rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Word was received from Townsville yesterday that the schooner Scout was weatherbound at Hegarty Point, having one boat smashed and her bulwarks damaged. She did not…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The cyclonic gale which was so severely felt in Melbourne on Sunday and Monday was met by the Huddart, Parker, and Company's liner Anglian on the run across Bass Straits, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large break occurred in a 36in. water-main in Moore Park-road, at the roar of the Victoria Barracks, early yesterday morning, and the new Sports Grounds at Moore Park were considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The life-saving experiments carried out at The Skaw on December 1, previously illustrated in "The World's News," by means of the Doenvig buoy, were successful beyond the most sanguine…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The steamer Kolya, on a trip from Sydney to Wellington, encountered a strong sale. Heavy seas pletely wrecked one lifeboat, carried away the port backstay, the cabin skylight, and all the bunker…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A terrible tragedy of the sea is reported from British Columbia. During her voyage from Seattle, Puget Sound, to Victoria (B.C.), the mail steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COOMA.—After several days of [?]ot weather a severe hailstorm broke over the town and [?]uburbs. The hailstones were larger than those of any previous storm. The gutters overflowed. Fruit trees were partly stripped of…
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