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LONDON, Friday. -- The floods which were experienced in Switzerland on Wednesday approach the dimensions of a national disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The floods in Switzerland have been extremely serious. At Lucerne the streets and quays were inundated, and the electric light…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great floods have occurred in Germany. On Monday and Tuesday dains of the Ahr Valley, in the Rhine province, burst, and 150 people in the valley were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Vienna correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports that over 100 people were killed in the floods in Hungary. The loss of life was particularly heavy in the Banate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further details regarding the disastrous doods in Switzerland state that the streets and quays in Lucerne are flooded, and the electric light has failed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- The streets and quays at Lucerne are flooded, and the electric light has failed. Serious damage has been done at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The question of Powollised woodblocks is likely to raise a storm at the City Council's meeting to-night. The storm will rage round a report by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A thunderstorm in New York State killed 14 people, and injured many othets…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The train services in Switzerland have now been resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The R.M.S. Orontes, which left London on May 33, is due in Sydney on Thursday morning. After crossing the equator at noon on the 6th, the steamer met very strong south-east trades, which increased in force…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →When the police arrived on June 16, at the warehouse of George Mole and Co., George-street West, the place looked as if it had been struck by a cyclone. Weatherboards had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AUCKLAND, Wednesday.-A fire was discovered early this morning in No. 1 hold of the steamer Indradevi, which arrived yesterday from Liverpool. Smoke was seen issuing…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The telegraphed news from our Melbourne correspondent that the Victoria Reef Quartz mine at Bendigo is flooded, and that another rise of 40 feet in the water would mean the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Early yesterday the unsettled, close conditions in the far west culminated in extensive thunderstorms. At Tibooburra, Milparinka, and Broken Hill the storms resulted in 43,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The week yields a long chapter of disasters on land and sea. The forces of Nature seemed to riot in many parts of Europe. In one part of Germany lightning killed 50 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A meeting was held at Bendigo (Vic.) in connection with the flooding of the Victoria Reef Quartz Mine. The manager stated that the water had risen 405ft above the bottom of the…
Continued on Trove, page 52 →BROKEN HILL.—The rain registered on Tuesday totalled 31 points, making 264 points since the 10th inst. This is for Broken Hill. A number of places outside Broken Hill had much more, up to 4 and 5…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A fire broke out in No. 1 hold of the Tysor liner Indradevl early this morning. The fire brigade made vallant attempts to subdue the outbreak, and later the Harbour Board's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AUCKLAND, Wednesday. -- At 1 o'clock this morning smoke was observed issuing from the ventilators in the forepart of the steamer lay dradevi, lying at the end of the Queen-street…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday. -- Broken-hill has been unusually fortunate with regard to rain this month, but owing to the light, soaking nature of the falls, the reservoir has not…
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