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The flood waters from the Saltwater River have found their way into the Flemington Racecourse, and rendered it unfit,for use tomorrow. The V.R.C. committee met to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Frederick Hocking, a lamplighter at Mount Pleasant, while lighting a lamp, was caught by the wind, which whirled him and his lamp in different directions. Hocking…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Latest reports regarding the storms show that in many parts of the State they were the most severe experienced for years. The rainfall was phenomenal, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A traveller, [?] to a Victorian contemporary, th[?]s the course of vessels along the [?]rican coast:-- "The coast[?] from [?]urban to Capetown…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Hunt, Commonwealth Meteorologist, says that rains have been as general in New South Wales as in Victoria, but not as heavy. He reports that he has…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The railway bridge between Clunes and Talbot (Vic.) was washed away, and the engine and several trucks of the night train from Ballarat to Maryborough toppled into the creek…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Floods have occurred in many parts of Victoria. At Barwon Park Estate. near Geelong, Mrs. Ferry, wife of the manager, and a young girl named Gurrie were drowned whilst trying to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The are covered by the floods is reported as being very extensive. A great amount of damage has been done, and quite a number of accidents have been caused by the wind and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In connection with the floods that devastated a great portion of the countryside in the State of Victoria on Friday, a graphic description of how the tornado struck the Doveton woollen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The worst fear's have happily not been realised. The flood waters surged down the rivers and streams in the west and northwest of the State on Thursday and Friday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—During Sunday the River Goulburn at Seymour rose 3ft. The waters of Friday had subsided, but with the present rise King's Park and some of the sale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The battleship Hannibal had a highly sensational experience yesterday. She was executing a gun-laying test in Rabbacombe Bay, Devonshire, when, through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--News now to hand from the .flood-swep,t zones is of a much, more re-assuring character than the position revealed on Saturday morning. With a few exceptions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The flood waters reached Echuca at five o'clock this morning, and rose rapidly, till by nine o'clock several hotels rind business places were flooded out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Wonga Fell, of William Crosby and Co.'s line, arrived yesterday from Capetown direct, but she brought no tidings of the missing steamer Waratah. As a matter of fact,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When the steamship Wonga Fell arrived from South Africa to-day Captain Campbell was sought for information which might throw some light or the disappearance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Wonga Fell, which sailed from Capetown on the day on which the Waratah was due at that port from Durban, arrived at Sydney yesterday after a direct run of 26…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Last week-end saw most of the low-lying districts of north-western and western Victoria submerged. Thursday and Friday, the rain fell in torrents;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COROWA.—The weather is still dull. A record flood is expected here on Wednesday. There is every prospect of it being higher thin in 1867. COOMA.—Thursday night's heavy rains on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Reports received by the Railway Department to-day state that the flood waters are subsiding slowly. The line from Mitiama to Kerang has been…
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