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The great dyke of Genne Villiers burst, flooding a large area of the city, and imprisoning 7000 people in their homes. The Boucicaut Hspital was hastily evacuated,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One result of the present calamitous floods in France is the demand of Parisians that the Seine should be straightened, whatever the cost. It is proposed that the work should…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest advices from Walgett show that the waters have receded considerably, and only the lower portions of the town are now submerged. The Namoi and Barwon Rivers at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At present Australia is blessed with record wool and wheat harvests. The present is therefore the psychic moment in its affairs for commercial activity . In matter of reality…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nature is good to Australia. It has decked her with mineral riches greater than any other country. In the short history of one hundred years or so it has made her the largest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BRISBANE, Sunday.--The Deputy-Postmaster General has received advice as to serious interruptions on the telegraph routes north of Rockhampton. All the northern lines are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After a brief period of fine, frosty weather in Paris, which gave promise of the floods subsiding, additional heavy rains have fallen, causing a further rise in the Seine, the water now being 30ft. deep. Heartrending scenes are witnessed, the hapless people, imprisoned in their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRISBANE, Sunday.--Considerable damage has been done by the floods in the country at the mouth of the Barron River. At Ingham on Saturday the flood paters were subsiding, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WEE WAA, Sunday.--The disruption of the north-western railway system during the past fortnight, has served to throw into relief the incompetence of the Postal Department to deal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WEE WAA, Sunday.--The only way of escape from, Walgett was on a fettler's tricycle, and after nearly a week's isolation it was gladly accepted. It was by no moans certain that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The appalling flood effects reported from France by our cabled this morning cause those from which this State is now suffering to shrink into comparative insignificance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Monday.--As a result of boisterous weather on the coast during the past few days a number of steamers are sheltering. The Musgrove, bound from Gladstone to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Brewarrina was struck last Friday night by a cyclone and the townlaid in ruins. It was the fiereest in the history of the district. Hailstone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following report were received from coastal stations at 8 o'clock last evening:-- Tweed Heads.--South-south-east, fresh gale, equally, showery, sea heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At a public meeting at Brewarrina last night resolutions were passed investing the municipal authorities with power to apply to the Government for relief for the many…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.--During the discussion on the Military Estimates in the Reichstag, one of the Conservatives, an ex-cavalry officer named von Oldenburg,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday Evening.—There has been two days' fine weather with sharp frost in Paris, and the Seine is tailing steadily. Each section of the city has been placed under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The disastrous floods which have inundated places so wide apart as Paris and New South Wales might well be ascribed by popular imagination to the influence of the comet, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One result of the floods in the country districts is that a tremendous amount of damage has been done to a number of roads, which are impassable for miles. The work of restoring…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.—The weather during the past few days has been most disagreeable, rain having fallen at frequent intervals. Some of the showers were very…
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