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The work of cleaning up the Flemington course after the flood is proving more difficult than was at first anticipated. The sludge left by the flood has caked, and it has now…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Owing to the overflow of the river Loddon, an immense volume of water is sweeping across the country in a north-westerly direction, between Barr Creek aud Kerang. It is probable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cable was received at the Observatory from Norfolk Island yesterday, stating that a strong westerly gale was raging there, with high seas. Mr. Hunt states that the centre of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →To the class of destructive winds meteorologists assign typhoons and tornadoes. Both possess the distinction of being called cyclonic storms, but it is the Asiatic variant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Company's steamer Airlic arrived yesterday from the East, and berthed at the Quay. The Airlic had a fineweather passage from Singapore…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The storm which was reported yesterday as operating over the Tasman Sea is still causing a swell to roll in on the North Coast. A heavy sea was running on the Tweed bar yesterday; while…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Chief Secretary has received from the Police Department a report that a rapid rise has taken place in the River Murray waters. The residents and camps in the low-lying…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There comes a tale from the village of Union that locusts big as a man's hand, by cloudless thousands, are ravaging the country far and wide. Never before in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Chief Secretary, Mr. Hogue, has received from the Police Department a report that a rapid rise has taken place in the River Murray waters, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Saturday, evening shortly before 6 o'clock exceedingly heavy hall and rain fell for fully half an hour, the opinion being freely expressed by old residents that it was the heaviest downpour that has ever…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Chief Secretary has received from the Police Department a report stating that a rapid rise has taken place in the River Murray waters. The residents and camps in the low-lying…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The sailings of the Australian liners from Hongkong have been delayed by the recent disastrous storms in the China Sea. As stated in "The Daily Telegraph" on Saturday last, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Very heavy seas continued to run yesterday along the northern portion of the coastline of this State, and shipping operations were hampered to a considerable extant. Mr. Hunt…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The cyclonic storm which has been operating during the past few days continues to show great energy. Its centre, according to data received yesterday by the Meteorological Branch…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Last week the Murray River overflowed its banks and inundated long leagues of the surrounding country. From Moama (the Maiden's Punt of an older day), on the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 789 →The Chief Secretary on September 24 received from the police department a report that a rapid rise has taken place in the River Murray, waters, due to a rise in the Campaspe River…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Storms of great violence beset the four-masted barque West Lothian on her passage from New York, via Melbourne, to Sydney, and the voyage was marked by a series of more or less…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday. --Terrible storms have been raging in the south-east of Spain. In Alicante, Grenada, and Murcia the crops have been ruined aud many lives have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrible storms have ruined the crops in Alicante, Granada, and Murcia. Many lives have been lost. A thunderbolt struck a distillery at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A furious northerly gale swept over Hobson's Bay to-day. Several small craft were swamped, and the ferry steamer Gem was for a time in danger. She was approaching Williamstown from Port Melbourne,…
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