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The Commissioner for Railways has received a telegram from the officials at Cooktown stating that heavy rain and boisterous weather has been experienced there and at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon a thunderstorm came up from the west. Heavy rain fell for about half an hour. Trees were uprooted, and the grandstand at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A slight fall of rain last night yielded four points. This morning the weather was hot and dry. The water superintendent, Mr. Tourney, reported this afternoon that there had been…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Half of England and a large part of Scotland were under water on October 17, reports a London journal. An almost unprecedentedly heavy rainfall, lasting for 24 hours, had caused…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TOWNSVILLE, Friday.--Floods have occurred on the line between Townsville and Charters Towers. The mail train, which left the latter place on Wednesday night, did not reach…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →General rain was reported yesterday morning east of the Darling generally except on North Coast and tablelands and part of the Riverina. In most cases the rain was the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Canadian Pacific liner Mount Temple, from Antwerp to St. John, New Brunswick, was totally wrecked at mid-night last night on the West Ironbound…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. T. W. Keele, who is now President of the Water and Sewerage Board, was for a number of years in charge of the Government work on the Northern River…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Saturday.--The Commissioner for Railways has received a telegram from Cooktown, stating that the train from Cooktown to Leura got through after a delay of two hours at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--Owing to rough weather the torpedo boats Countess of Hopetoun and Childers, under the command of Captain Creswell, Commonwealth Naval…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trains have been much delayed in Northern (Queensland owing to the heavy rains. Floods have occurred along the line from Townsville to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Information has been received by the Commissioner for Railways to the effect that traffic has been suspended upon the Ayr tramway, owing to floodwaters having covered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, Monday.--The Railway Commissioner has received information from the north to the effect that traffic has been suspended on the Ayr tramway, owing to portions of the line…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy rain fell at Suva., Fiji, last month as the rate of 2½ in per hour. From Monday, December 16, to Friday, December 20, the record was as follows: Monday, 70 points;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In spite of the stormy weather which prevailed in the Atlantic last week, the outward-bound Cunard liner Lusitania, on the whole, made a very good passage, the time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROCKHAMPTION, Tuesday.--The police have received advice that the Fitzroy River, at Yamba, is 17ft 6in. above summer level and vising at the rate of 5in, per hour…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The borough council of Rookwood waited on the Minister for Works to ask him to extend the storm-water channel in their district. The Mayor pointed out that at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heary r[?] on Wednesday resulted in floods all ever the district, but so far there are no reports of any serious damage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ROCKHAMPTON, Thursday.--The river at Yaamba is 28 feet over summer level, and rising two inches per hour. It is expected the water will be over the city…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The E. and A mail steamer Aldenham, from Yokohama, via. ports,, arrived at Sydney this morning, and Is berthed at the company's ?wharf. Circular Quay. Captain St. John George…
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