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Messages by wireless telegraphy state that the steamer Cottage City, which was wrecked yesterday, has broken in two amidships. Twelve passengers and members of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BEGA, Saturday.—Although the weather yesterday was fine and continues so this morning. big seas are still running on the coast. A steamer was still lying in Twofold Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Owing to wash-outs on the railway lines, railway traffic is greatly congested in Idaho, and the losses of live stock have been very heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Salvage operations on the steamer Rosedale, which is ashore at the Bellinger entrance, were carried on during the week. The North Coast Co. has received advice from…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →WEST MAITLAND, Friday.-- Percy Allan, district engineer at Newcastle, made an inspection to-day of the flood embankment at Oakhampton, in connection with which it is sought to have new trustees appointed in…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A faded woman, long past the summer of her youth, with her right arm in a sling, and a tired expression on her face,. was the bearer of a great…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The theory that the accident was caused by the storm-water channel is vigorously attacked by the Mayor of Coogee (Ald. Gilderthorpe) and others, including Mr. C. Trader, a member of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A mixed train down from Quorn to [?] ran into a washaway close to Brachina, 316 miles from Adelaide, on Saturday. The engine-driver, Rowe was killed instantly, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →TAES, Monday.—The Murrumbidgee River rose 20ft on saturday owing to very heavy rain at the head of the river. It is now higher than has been the case for nine years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The recent intimation that farmers residing in the flooded area of the Hawkesbury have lost certainly not less than £10,000, and possibly much more, as a result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Following on the heavy rains and flooded streams anglers did not meet with success during the past fortnight. The Snowy River rose 7ft above summer level, and is now 2ft…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DRISBANE, Sunday.--The Commissioner for Railways on Saturday received a message from the truffle manager at Maryborough stating that very heavy rain had been experienced between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BUNDABERG, Sunday.--About 43in of rain have fallen since Wednesday. All the goods have been cleared from the wharves in anticipation of a flood. No material rise in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LISMORE, Saturday.--Heavy rain fell last night, and it intervals to-day, over two inches being recorded. It wm far heavier up the creeks, which are flooded, preventing carriers getting in. All wharves to-night are…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →GOODOOGA, Saturday.--The rivers in the vicinity art all rising steadily, and there is every prospect of a flood. Some of the low-lying country is already under water. On the mail route through Brenda station the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Through a washaway on the railway line, caused by the recent heavy floods, a serious accident occurred to a train some miles from Hergott on Saturday evening,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The volcano Taal is again in a state of truption to-day. The natives in the villages near Lake Taal are terror-stricken, and have fled to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill on Thursday night and Friday had a storm that will long be remembered. Never before, say old inhabitants, has the Hill seen such lightning and thunder as kept…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRISBANE, Monday.--The Commissioner for Railways to-day received a wire from the traffic manager at Toowoomba, stating that as the result of the heavy rains the Weir River is in flood, the water being 15 inches…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ROMA (Q.), Monday.--Very heavy rain has fallen in the Roma district. Word has been received from Surat that there is 6ft. of water over the bridge and rising 2ft and hour. The moils for the surrounding district…
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