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Mr. W. V. Read, formerly traffic manager on the New South Wales railways, and who is now one of the oldest living ex-railway officials, sends us the following interesting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A heavy gale swept over Norfolk Island of Easter Monday and the following day, causing a good deal of damage. Our correspondent writes under date April 19: --…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Thursday Night-Mr. G. White, who descended at Polesworth, Warwickshire, owing to his motor getting out of gear, resumed his Journey to Manchester this evening…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Professor Herman Hilprecht, of New York, has made public his translation of some remarkable cuneiform tablets discovered in what was the library of the great temple at Nippur,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is not only in Paris that phenomenal rains have swollen the rivers and caused floods. Something similar is reported from St. Petersburg, where particularly heavy rains, combined with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Union S.S. Company's turbine steamer Maheno, from Auckland, arrived at Sydney yesterday with a large number of passengers. Captain Livingstone reports having experienced light variable winds till 3…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sir,--In your leading article today on the "Great Cotton Frost" you refer to the great floods in France and this devastating frost being alike in showing "the ruthless…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →CASINO, Friday.--A heavy thunderstorm occurred yesterday afternoon at Runnymede, halfway between Casino and Kyogle, and extended over a stretch of two miles…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Professor Hilprechi, Professor of Assyrian and of Comparative Semitic Philology in the University of Pennsylvania has been making public his translation of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The island was visited by a terrific lasted for on the 28th and 29th ult, which lasted for about 12 hours. On the 27th the weather was lowering, with a falling glass, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Advices received yesterday from the Loyalty Group bring news of a terrific cyclone which devastated the islands towards the latter end of March. The report states that all the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The executive committee of the New South Wales Public Disaster Relief Fund hog to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following contributions towards alleviating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wind freshened considerably from the southward at about 11 p.m. and rapidly increased in force until at midnight it had attained the violence of a southerly gale. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Winter came in last night in earnest, in unpleasant earnest for thousands of theatre- goers and people whose duty called them out after 7.30. A heavy downpour of rain,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The performance of "The Cassilis Engagement," by the Stage Society, at the Standard Theatre, was temporarily stopped in consequence of the storm. The rattle of the hail…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A dance party was held last night on the steamer Glen Albon, which is lying in John-stene's Bay. Captain King had Invited about fifty fri[?]nds, and shortly after 9 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The most sensational occurrence following as a result of Thursday night's violent storm was the flooding of a stable of Mr. A. Cook, Wattle-street, Ultimo. The heavy rush of storm water…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A thunderstorm of exceptional violence passed over the city last evening, and resulted in a good deal of damage, not only in the city, but in many of the suburbs. The storm…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A terrific thunderstorm, the heaviest experienced for some time, swept over the city and suburbs last evening, bringing with it sharp hail squalls, followed by drenching…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A number of tie city streets were converted into rivulets. The waters raced down the thoroughfares, and in several localities the gully shafts became choked with the debris…
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