The Paris Floods
LONDON, Monday.—A woman and a young girl returned to an abandoned house at Alfortville, Paris. The house immediately collapsed, and the woman was killed. The girl was…
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LONDON, Monday.—A woman and a young girl returned to an abandoned house at Alfortville, Paris. The house immediately collapsed, and the woman was killed. The girl was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Subsiding" sums up the situation. The Barwon and the Nan[?] are falling and Walgett is getting its mails through. The mail sent by train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The district inspector telegraphs from Narrabri that the temporary combined train and trolly service between Burren Junction and Collarenebri East connects effectively on the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Owing to the floods in Paris, 48,000 people are unemployed. The conduct of the post-office employees throughout the inundations has led to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Postmaster at Bourke reports that the Brewarrina mails, despatched, from his office on Saturday last, were returned on Sunday, the Began River being in high…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A grim discovery was made by Mr. R. O. Walker, yesterday, while on a fishing excursion in the Gwydir River, about seven miles from Moree. He was walking along when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BOURKE, Monday.--The river Darling at Bourke is at 30ft., and rising. Judging from reports higher up. about another 3ft. rise is anticipated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Owing to the floods in Paris, 48,000 workers are unemployed. The authorities are feeding, clothing, and lodging thousands daily…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BREWARRINA was recently visited by a cyclonic storm which caused damage to the extent of £10,000. The wind was accompanied by hail of great size, which fell for half an hour. It is estimated that during the time the storm lasted…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Side of a Brewarrina Hotel Shattered by the Storm. Damage at the Brewarrina Public School…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →LAIDLEY Q.), Tuesday.--The town was visited shortly before 6 o'clock last evening by a severe thunderstorm. The lightning accompanying the storm was of a particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A few details regarding the recent Hoods in Spain and Portugal are embodied in the following telegrams taken from London papers to hand by the last mail:--…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The French Government will ask Parliament for a further £800,000 to relieve the sufferers. After falling 14ft the Scine is showing a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Railway Department has arranged to run a trolly service to-day between Old Burren Junction and Collarenebri. The trolly will leave Old Burren Junction at 11.30 a.m.,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WALGETT was saved from inundation during the recent floods by the embankment which the council constructed. For some days the congested waters lapped greedily at the bank…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The postmaster, Bourke, reports that the Brewarrina mails despatched from his office on Saturday last were returned on Sunday, the Bogan River being in high flood. Until the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The French Government is asking Parliament for a further grant of £800,000 in order to compensate sufferers from the recent floods…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →With the Barwon and Namoi Rivers falling, the worst has been experienced of the floods which have lately prevailed in the northwestern parts of the State. Tamworth,…
Continued on Trove, page 50 →The terrible floods in France, which were reported in our last issue, affected the entire valley of the Seine, between Paris and Havre. At Rouen, the quays. wharves, and suburbs were…
Continued on Trove, page 50 →It is many years since Walgett previously passed through an experience similar to that which it has had during the last few weeks. More often than not the district suffers from the want of water, rather than from a superabundance of it, but the country…
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