Parisian Floods
We in Australia know only too well what misery and devastation may be caused by sudden floods; but our history is happily free from anything approaching the experience of…
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We in Australia know only too well what misery and devastation may be caused by sudden floods; but our history is happily free from anything approaching the experience of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →TERRIBLE floods were experienced in France last week, and the damage is estimated at over £40,000,000. It is estimated that in Paris 100,000 workmen have been rendered idle, and 80,000 people in the city and suburbs are homeless. In the early stages of the flood hundreds of thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →NOW that the flood waters have subsided for the most part in the districts between Tamworth ana Inverell, and…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A largely-attended meeting of the Dapto branch of the South Coast and West Camden Milk Suppliers' Association was held on Saturday night to consider the present condition of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Excellent progress has been made by the local municipal council, assisted by the Works Department, in cleaning up the debris and making the streets trafficable. The town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The latest sensation provided by the Paris floods is an exciting encounter that French bluejackets had with some Apaches. The Apaches, of whom there was a whole…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The Railway Commissioner has received a wire from the traffic manager at Townsville, stating that the trains on the Ayr tramline have been cancelled, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Minister for Works mentioned yesterday that officers of his department were busy in the flooded districts of the north-west repairing roads and bridges which had been destroyed or…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The floods which have lately caused so much destruction over hundreds of miles of country in the north and north-western parts of New South Wales, are still affecting a wide area of…
Continued on Trove, page 50 →Terrible floods in France are reported as a result of persistent heavy fains and falls of snow in that country. Fully half the territory was under water, and enormous damage…
Continued on Trove, page 50 →Among the losses sustained by the recent cyclone at Brewarrina the Church of England congregation have suffered heavily. This far western parish is under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--The steamer Ulimaroa, which arrived at 8 o'clock to-night from Sydney, experienced a heavy southerly gale immediately after clearing the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Acting Premier stated yesterday that the latest report the Government had from Brewarrina was that the river was up 33ft, and was still rising. Everything was safe at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Latest reports regarding the floods state that the river Darling is rising very fast. The river has reached 22 feet 9 inches, but can stand a further rise of 15 feet before…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →LONDON, Wednesday Evening.—Marines encountered a party of brigands pillaging a house at Asnieres, a suburb of Paris, and fired upon them. The brigands returned a brisk fire, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WALGETT, Thursday.—The Barwon and Namoi Rivers are both still falling slowly, but thousands of acres of country are still submerged. All the roads are impassable, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A party of French bluejackets pursued a boatload of Paris Apaches, who were robbing at Alfortville. Shots were exchanged, and the fugitive boat was sunk. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Deputy Postmaster-General reports that a train carrying mails left Narrabri on Monday morning arrived it Wee Waa at about noon, and returned to Narrabri in the evening,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Owing to constant showers local residents, particularly on the low-lying flats surrounding the Hawkesbury River, have fears that, should such continue much longer, a big flood…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I have the honour to inform you th[?] a fund has been suited in Sydney for the relief of the unfortunate victim, of the [?] paralle[?]ed floods which have brought ru[?]…
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