Cyclone Improved
Last Sunday I saw Mr. W. Brown driving his handsome trotting stallion Cyclone. This shapely hay was leased for the season just over to a grazier…
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Heavy Storm at Wagga
An exceptionally heavy storm passed over portion of the Wagga district on Sunday. At Kurrajong 202 points fell in three quarters of an hour. Much…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods at Bathurst. Railway Line Damaged. Traffic Delayed
BATHURST.—Soon after 3 o'clock on Thursday a storm of exceptional severity broke over George's Plains, extending; along Vale-road upwards towards Cow Flat, About a mile beyond George's Plains railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Electrical Discharge. Thunderstorm at Bogan Gate. Bogan Gate
A terrific, thunderstorm passed over the town on Tuesday, the lightning being exceptionally severe. Two Hashes struck the earth in the main street, causing the dust to fly as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Bathurst Floods. a Farmer's Thrilling Escape
BATHURST, Thursday.--The weather to-day is fine and clear. Further particulars of the storm at Perthville and George's Plains show that 4 inches of rain fell in two hours, silting up…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Weather. Cyclonic Storm Travelling Eastward. Expected to Affect N.S.W.
The cyclonic disturbance, that has been operating in Western Australia during the past few days, resulting in a splendid rainfall being recorded there, is travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Flooded Mine. One Hundred and Sixty lives Lost. LONDON, Friday, 3.5 p.m
A mine disaster involving great loos of life is reported from Johannesburg. Through the bursting of Knight's Dam the Witwatersrand mine was flooded, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Rain in Melbourne. Melbourne, Saturday Night
Our Melbourne correspondent wired last night that all sports went postponed in consequence of heavy rain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ten Whites and 150 Natives Drowned. Mine Flooded. London, Friday Afternoon
Reuter's Johannesburg correspondent states that Knight's dam burst and flooded the Witwatersrand Mine. Ten whites and 150 native were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Cock-eyed Bob." Wind Storm in West Australia
PERTH, Saturday.--A telegram from Onslow and Carnarvon stated that, there has been another heavy storm in the north-west. Onslow reports that a "cock-eye Bob" swept over the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SAILING. Inter-State Races Sailed in a Gale. W.A. Boat Victorious
There was to have been a field of 17 starters in the 14ft. inter-State championship on Saturday, but Appy Days, of Ballina, Our Own, of Botuny, and Plover, of Sydney, did…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Delayed by Gales
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Strong head winds and rough seas were encountered by all the steamers which reached Melbourne from Sydney to-day. As a result, the mail steamers Ormuz…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Onslow Cyclone, Anxiety for Pearlers. Perth (W.a.)
Telegrams from Onslow concerning the cyclone there state that the lighter Flat and the cutter May are high and dry in the mangroves. The local pearling fleets are either in the Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Broken Bill Crisis. a Harebrained Scheme. Proposal by I. W. W. "Flood the Gaols."
BROKEN HILL., Tuesday Afternoon.—An interesting development, and one that may be fraught with serious trouble, is under way this morning. The Industrial Workers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fruit Glut. The Gale in the Orchards. Fruit Given Away at the Sales
Some idea of the glut in fruit may be gathered from the fact that at Monday's sales, in Parramatta (an off-day) something like 1500 cases of summer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Barrier. Second Crisis Pending. a Wild Scheme. Men to Court Arrest. and Flood Goals. (From Our Special Reporter.) Broken Hill
Predictions of trouble have been so frequent during the past fortnight, and that period has gone by so quirtly, that onr might in thr ordinary course hesitate before…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian Short Stories the Flood at Cowell's Creek
Mr. Willoughby sat to his comfortable library chair and smoked cheerfully. Through the open window of his dainty room he gazed out across the wide, well-grassed…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →The Macquarie River in Flood -- Pictures From Bathurst
The greatest flood known for many years was experienced in the Bathurst district as a result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →O'CONNELL. Convent Damaged by Storm
Owing to a very serious cyclonic storm on the evening of January 4 the very pretty convent building in O'Connell was seriously damaged, and also the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Tibungen's Hold Flooded Wool and Wheat Damaged
BRISBANE, Thursday.—A fire was discovered shortly after midnight in No. 1 hold of the N.D.L.. steamer Tlbungen, which is loading at Short-street wharf. The fire brigade was…
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