Cloud-bursts and Floods. Track of Disaster in Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Monday Evening.--Terrible cloud-bursts and floods have been responsible 'for the death of 200 persons in Guanajun to State…
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Adrift on a Raft Perilous Trip on Flooded River
On Wednesday, July 8, two well-known Queensland tookmakers, Arthur Robinson and John Patterson, who were in muttaburra, and who were anxious to get to Longreach,…
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Australia is proverbially a land of violent contrasts, and this has rarely received a more pronounced illustration than in the climatic variations of the past…
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THE LASHING SURE NEAR KIAMA, WHICH, SWEEPING SHOREWARDS, DID CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY ALONG THE COAST ON TUESDAY. AT THE BREAKING OF EACH WAVE. MANY FISH WERE CAST UP ON THE BEACHES. KIAMA BLOW-HOLE. DURING THE STORM THIS WEEK THE BLOW-HOLE AT KIAMA HAS PRESENTED A MAGNIFICENT SIGHT. MANY TOURISTS HAVE BEEN ATTRACTED…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Like the Maitland Gale." Manning Heads
Pilot J. M. Kerkin, of the Manning River Heads station, states that the sea here yesterday morning very closely resembled the sea of the Maitland Gale of 1896. It ran…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gale in New Zealand. Wellington (N.z.)
The southerly gale still continues over most parts of the country, causing general inconvenience, and, in some places, anxiety to residents. The shipping is suffering…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The damage by the storm was to-day found to have been very serious, both in the harbor and to the beach improvements. The damage to the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Moeraki in the Gale. Severe Buffeting. Many Passengers Injured
The 300 odd passengers were heartily thankful when the Union S.S. Company's Moeraki (Captain Neville) reached Sydney at 2 o'clock yesterday morning (nearly 18 hours late), for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shipping Traffic Resumed. Steamers That Passed. Through the Storm
The break in the gale was taken advantage of by a fleet of coasters and colliers, which put to sea yesterday. Trade along the coast was also resumed. Shipping arriving, report rough experiences in the gale. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After the Storm. Coasters Make Port. Burringbar From the Richmond
The ateamer Burringbar left the [?]ichmend River on Saturday for Sydney, and did not arrive until this morning. The vessel crossed out in perfectly fine weather, and with a smooth…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Commercial. Effects of Storms. No Fresh Butter Wholesale No River Eggs. Labor Troubles Again
Owing to the large number of casstal steamers (north and south) being delayed by rough seas; the Sydney wholesale market was practically bare of grocers' selected branchs of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Late Storm. News Off the Ocean. Rough Voyages. Accident on the Moeraki
The disturbance responsible for the extraordinarily severe weather conditions in coastal parts of the State has at last been effectively displaced from the mainland by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Across the Tasman Sea. Storm in New Zealand. Landslips Block the Railways
WELLINGTON, Thursday.—The country is just now suffering from the worst storm experienced for years. Many of the rivers to both islands are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Harbor's Bed Scoured. Clinkers and Ashes on Beaches. Effects of the Storm
The Vaicluse and Manly Councils' staff have been engaged for the past two days in removing the refuse carried from the harbor during the recent storm on to the beachos at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Stopping the Flood of Useless Talk
Those who know Parliaments well, with their vices of loquacity, party squabble, and party obstruction, will welcome any Standing Order designed to make the political machine more effective by the limitation of speeches, but they will have very little faith in the Standing Order brought into the House of Representatives by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hydro-aeroplane Beats Storm
Commander Samson, whose feats with the hydro-aeroplane during King George's recent inspection of the first caused great interest, hydro-aeroplaned…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Recent Storm. Belated Steamers Arrive
A fleet of steamers belated by the gale arrived yesterday morning from the north coast. The vessels were sheltering during the heaviest of the gale. The Burringbar, from the Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hove to for 36 Hours. Tyrian in the Gale
The Howard Smith liner Tyrian was another vessel to encounter the recent gale, and she had a rough time. Captain T. F. H. Roberts, R.N.R., states that the vessel left Brisbane on…
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DAMAGED DRESSING BOXES AT BRONTE BATHS, THE RES[?] TUESDAY'S STORM. THE ENTRANCE TO THE BATHS SHOWING THE PILED UP…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Caught in the Gale. Anxious Fleet Released. Burringbar From the North
The North Coast S.N. Company's steamer Burringbar, which was one of the fl[?]t of coasters held up by the recent cyclonic gale, made Port Jackson yesterday. When this…
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