Victoria Meets a Gale
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 20
Messrs. Huddart Parker's, Ltd., steamer Victoria, which was expected to arrive here at noon yesterday from New Zealand, did not anchor off Chowder Bay until about 9.30 p.m. last night. Captain H. J. Kell…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Disastrous Cyclone. Rome, Aug. 21
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 19
A cyclone has destroyed all the vines in the Milan district. Aug. 22. The storm devastated the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Heavy Snowfall. on the Southern Highlands Gales Along the Coast
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 17
The extensive high pressure, gaining in energy, has worked a little north-eastward, and still assures cold weather, with squally south-west winds generally, excepting in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →A Dam of Desolation The Brobdingnagian Burrinjuck Blunder. No Married Men with Children Need Apply. The Flood-Doomed City of Burrinjuck: Habitations of the Married People Built Below the Water-line. a City Inviting Fire and Awaiting Flood. Is This How the Government Provides Homes for "Bone and Sinew " and Their Families? What Should Burrinjuck be—a Mauselcus, or a Garden City ?
Truth · Sunday 24 August 1913 · page 7
Burrinjuck' is a wonder; and its magnitude inspires the patriotism of the Australian breast. While this is so, and the overpowering need for water…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale on South Coast
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 11
On the coast yesterday it was cloudy- generally, south from Kiama, with, very strong winds, reaching a: fresh gale force at Moruya Some showers were reported South of Eden…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Storm-swept Messina. Violent Hurricane. London. Monday. 1.35 a.m
The Sun · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 9
A Rome telegram reports that a hurricane of unusual severity has swept over Messina. Streets were flooded, and many families were rescued from roofless houses, their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Island Storms. Makambo's Rough Trip. Cyclone and Cales
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 9
The Burns Philp island steamet Makambo, which arrived from the New Hebrides last evening, has passed through severe gales and cyclonic storms since she took her departure…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gales at the Islands. Makambo Has Rough Trip
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 11
Gales of terrific fury beset the steamer Makambo, of Burns, Philp's line, during her Island cruise. She returned to Sydney last evening, and anchored in Watson's Bay for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Encountered Cyclone. Germania's Eventful Trip. Tremendous Seas. Loss of a Schooner
The Sun · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 7
The German steamer Germarila, which arrived at Sydney this morning from the Marshall and Caroline Islands, encountered terrific weather for days during the passage to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Barque in a Gale. Clan Macfarlane Disabled. Auckland (N.z.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 9
The Russian barque Clan Macfarlane, bound from New Caledonia to Hamburg, was towed into port to-day disabled. The vessel encountered tempestuous weather, portions of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Zealand Floods. Wellington (N.z.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 10
Southern advices state that floods are still causing trouble in Otago Central, and traffic is entirely suspended…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Settling the North. Land Board Bungle. Settlers on Flooded Blocks. Melbourne
The Sun · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 4
The immediate trouble before Mr. Glynn at the External Affaire Department is the incapacity of some of the officers appointed by the last administration to the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Typhoon's Toll Devastating Storm in Japan. Scores Killed and Great Damage Tokio
The Sun · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 3
Widespread ruin has been wrought in Japan by a typhoon, that has been raging for several days. Scores 'of people have been killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mind in Chaos. a Teacher's Troubles. "In a Fearful Predica-ment. " School Flooded Out
Evening News · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 11
When there are not sufficient children to affrant the establishment of a school, the Education Department pays a suburbly of £3 a year for ech pupil up to a maximum of £60…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flood Waters. a Comprehensive Scheme. (From Our Special Reporter.) Singleton
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 19
The Premier received three deputations at East Mainland and West Maitland, on the subject of flood prevention. Major Nicholson, M.L.A., was at the head of the deputations…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Flood Nightmare. Maitland Sufferers. Premier in the District
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 15
WEST MAITLAND, Friday. -- The Premier, accompanied by Mr. Davis, Director-General of Public Works, and Major Nicholson, M.L.A., visited West Maitland this afternoon in order…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Burrinjuck Blunder. National Works v. National Suicide. More About the Flood-Doomed City of Burrinjuck Why "The Empty Cradle" Remains Empty. The Imposition and Extortion of which the Workers are Victims
Truth · Sunday 31 August 1913 · page 12
It is not unlikely that, while perusing the morning paper, you will hit on the report of a Minister's utterance on Burinjuck whilst he is discussing the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Flooded Out." School Teacher's Dilemma. Why Return was Delayed
The Sun · Sunday 31 August 1913 · page 5
The plight of a country schoolmistress in [?]ood-time "four inches above the ankles, and drenched almost through," was told by the Minister for Education (Mr. Carmichael),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Violent Storms in France. Cloud-burst at Biarritz. Paris
The Sun · Monday 1 September 1913 · page 9
A cloudburst of exceptional violence occurred yesterday in Biarritz, the most frequented of all the fashionable watering-places in France…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Protection. Tamworth
Evening News · Monday 1 September 1913 · page 1
Periodically something is said by somebody about protecting the town of Tamworth from flood waters, but notwithstanding the grave danger from the Peel River when in flood, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →