Floods Subsiding
A telegram from Chraleville States that the Warrego River has fallen considerably, and is now flush with the decking of the bridge. The billabongs are still flooded. No coach or…
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890 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 45
The Queensland Floods
BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Deputy-Post-master-General has received a telegram from the postmaster at Thargomindah, stating that the mailman who left there on January 31 for…
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A most disagreeable, and at times trying, voyage was experiened by the Coocyanna, from calcutta. Thick weather prevailed between Singapore and Fremantle, whilst a terrific north-west gale struck her…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--The A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Wodonga arrived from Cairns today. Captain Thomson stated that a strong south east gale prevailed to Keppel Bay. The…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Telegrams form the far State that a body of water one mile I wide is running strongly. and making large a gaps in the railway line near Cunnamulla…
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The Commissioner for Railways has received advice that the line is under water, and washed away in several places at Cunnamulla. Arrangements have been made to effect…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--The flood at Cunnamulla is now but a few inches lower than the flood of 1890. Parts of the town are submerged, and the water is still rising. Railway…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Telegrams from the far south-west state that a body of water one mile wide is running strongly, and making large gaps in the railway line near Cunnamulla…
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The Fitzroy River at Rockhampton was 14ft 5[?] on the gauge to-day. The docks of the main wharfs were awash. The Railway Department has been advised that the Comet…
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ROCKHAMPTON, Friday.--Advice received to-day state that the line is still covered in places by flood-waters. The Nego River commenced to fall last night, and this morning the…
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LONDON, Saturday Morning.—Rains flooded the shaft of the South Rose Deep Mine, on the Rand, and fifty-five natives were drowned…
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Thirty-three points of rain were registered on Saturday during a thunderstorm. QUEANBEYAN, Sunday. A thunderstorm passed over the district on…
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ROCKHAMPTON, Sunday.--The Dawson River continues to rise, and is now over 31ft. high. The Nogoa River is falling. The Comet River is 4ft. over the rails. The Fitzroy River is…
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The barquentine May Flower, a regular trader between Maryborough and Sydney, arrived in Port Jackson on Monday evening, with a cargo of pine. consisting of 90,000ft. The…
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Captain Robert Griffiths, of the barque Beeswing, which has arrived at Newcastle after a passage of 73 days from Caleta Colosa, in Chili, states that on Year's Day he passed close to Pitcairn Island. In…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Unsettled Conditions. Heat in the Country. Scattered Showers. Southerly Gale on the Coast
Yesterday's temperatures were somewhat on the upgrade. The reports to hand were not numerous, but eight readings of one hundred or over were obtained. Bourke had the highest of these, 113deg., which is the…
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In flood and in fire all the hostilities of nature disappear in panic and the flight for life (writes Donald Macdonald in the "Argus.") During tropical floods of the north…
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ROCKHAMPTON, Monday.--Railway reports received to-day concerning the state of the rivers show that the Comet has now fallen 2ft clear of the railway line, and passengers…
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News was received by the English mail that the marque Anna, flying the German flag, put into Plymouth last month in distress. The vessel is bound from Hamburg to Melbourne,…
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It is reported from Townsville that the total damage done at Geraldton by the recent cyclone is variously estimated at from £100,000 to £150,000. Much difficulty is experienced in…
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