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The much-postponed contest between "Cyclone" Johnny Thompson and Jack Lester will be decided at the Stadium to-night. The men are in first-rate condition, and as they both are of the aggressive type…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →MADRID, Thursday Evening. -- There have been incessant gales on the coast of Spain for a period of 30 days. Six lighthouse-keepers stationed on an Island…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ADELAIDE. Saturday.—Heavy thunderstorms have passed over the Northern Territory and the extreme north-west. Broken Hill has participated in the downpour…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The floods in Seville (Spain) rendered 15,000 men to be idle. Much merchandise at Huelva had to be destroyed. Eighteen thousand square miles, from Cordova to the sea, were flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Giving away 20 years in age and close on 2st in weight, Cyclone Johnny Thompson was, nevertheless, equal to the task of decisively beating his fellow countryman, Jack Lester, who came to Australia with…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →MADRID, Sunday Evening.—The Spanish Parliament has voted the sum of a million p[?]sets (about £40,500) for the relict of the sufferer through the recent disastrous foods…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →KATOOMBA, Monday.--A thunderstorm passed over the district late on Saturday afternoon, when another exceptionally heavy downpour took place. The weather conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mataafa, ex-King of Samoa, died on February 6 from s[?]e debility. He was about 85 years of age. In this comparatively long life Mataafa went through many vicissitudes of fortune, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →That ancient Phonecian "river of fish," the Tagus, lately rose sixty feet above its ordinary level. Torrential rains swept the major portion of the Peninsula, destroying…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ST. PETERSBURG, Wednesday. -- Advices to hand from Urumtsi -- in Dyungaria, Chinese Empire, adjoining Russian Turkestan -- state that the Chinese Imperialists heavily defeated the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ROME, Wednesday Evening.—The Pope has shown keen sympathy with the suffers of Anda[?]sia, Spain, through the recent storms and floods…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BOGGOBRI, Friday.—A heavy dust storm everswept the town on Wednesday night. It commenced at about 4 o'clock and lasted till 7.30 Houses a hundred yards away were totally obscured and one…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"The worst we ever had." In these words a representative of Burns, Philp, and Co., Limited, summed up the effect which the recent hurricane, supposed heretofore to have…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →News of wild, boisterous weather in the New Hebrides came to hand by the island mail steamer Makambo, which under command of Capt. Weatherall, was an early arrival from the New…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mr. F, A. Porter, Kelvin, Gunnedah, writes:—Although we are experiencing a very dry season in this district, hopes arc entertained that a general…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A thunderstorm passed over the Katoomba district late on Saturday afternoon, when another exceptionally heavy downpour took place. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PITTSBURG, Thursday Evening.--Considerable damage has been done by the furious gales which have spread over the country. Oil derricks have been levelled in hundreds in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →BRAIDWOOD, Saturday.—This afternoon a heavy thunderatorm occurred, which lasted well into the night, and washaways on the railway line occurred at Tarago, Many passengers who…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A man named John Brady, who said he was from Dublin, was, at the Waterford (Ireland) Police Court, sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment on a charge of having been found drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →An unusually heavy storm occurred at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and the wicket was soon under water. To-day's forecast: Sultry and unsettled, with…
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