Flooded Offices. Big Tank Bursts
The bursting of a 600-gallon emergency tank in the tank room of the Mutual Life Building, Martin-place, flooded the office of the Orient Company this morning, and…
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A Theatre Afloat. Caught in a Cyclone
"The best engagement I ever had," said Carl Muller, the wonderful hoop spinner at the Tivoli Theatre, "was on a river theatre boat on the Mississippi. It was not like work…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Forty Years to Flood the Sahara
It would take 40 years to flood the Sahara Desert, as has been proposed, making it an inland sea, by cutting through a canal from the Mediterranean. This would afford easy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Parramatta Road Flooded
The bursting of a 30-inch water main in Parramatta-road, near Smith-street, yesterday morning, washed a portion of the wood blocks on the roadway away, and flooded the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Street Deluge
A second bursting of the 30-inch water main in Parramatta-road, Camperdown, occurred at about 5 a.m. on Saturday. For a while a great stream of water spurted from…
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Vessels arriving here on Saturday and yesterday from the eastward report meeting strong gales some distance to the eastward of Australia…
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AUCKLAND, Saturday.--By 4 o'clock this morning the drill-hall was a lively centre, and by 4.30 the contingent of specials was on its way to the wharves. Queen-street was exceptionally…
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A big 600-gallon emersency tank in the tack- room of the Mutual Life-buildiug, Martin-place, burst on Saturday morning, and the office of the Orient Company was flooded, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Water-main Bursts Flood at Camperdown
Again tho 30-inch water-main in Parramatta-road, Camperdown, has burst. The accident happened on Saturday morning. The same main burst earlier in the week…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Terrific Gale. Communication Cut Off. Storm and Stress at Chicago. Chicago, Monday Evening
One of the worst storms in the history of [?] has been raging here for the past two days. The majority of the telegraph and telephone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ventura Arrives. Heavy Gale Encountered
The American mail steamer Ventura from San Francisco, signalled off the Heads at noon yesterday and after medical inspection, berthed at the company's wharf, No. 4…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storms and Washaways. Rains in South Australia. Adelaide
Heavy thunderstorms were experienced yesterday and early this morning in the northern pastoral agricultural areas. In the far north rain averaged over half an inch, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Storm. Adelaide
A severe electrical disturbance occurred in South Australia this morning Lightning struck dead a farm hand, who was working in a field at Nuriootpa, a sixty-foot gum…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Storms in America. Sixteen Inches of Snow in Ohio. Chicago, Nov. 10
Heavy storms, accompanied by sleet and snow, have wrecked the telegraph and telephone lines, and railway communication has been stopped throughout West Virginia, Ohio,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Storm in Canada. Wrecks on the Lakes. London, Wednesday Morning
A terrible storm has taken place on the Great Lakes of Canada, and 20 Vessels are overdue. Forty lives were lost in the wreck of one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Six H0urs Cycle Race. R. Clark and E Byron W Brilliantly Queensland Champion's Good Showing—Fine Riding in a Gale
Though a very strong and cold wind blow on Saturday afternoon, the Redfern Club's Six Hours' Toams' Race for members of the N.S. Wales Cyclists' Union proved highly successful…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Terrific Storm. Raging in Ohio. City Covered with Snow. Damage Estimated at £800,000. New York. Tuesday Evening
The gale is still raging over Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, and the streets of the city are buried beneath several feet of snow. The broken tram and telegraph wires, which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storms in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Thunderstorms, heavy rain, and hailstorms were reported from various parts of the State to-day. At North New Moon mine, Eaglehawk, a chimney stack…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Storms. Three Men Killed. Adelaide
August Heinrich Fallsehr was killed by lightning at Nuriotpa on Tuesday. When the storm came on Fallsehr was cultivating his vineyard. He knocked off work, thinking…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Storm on the North Carolina Coast
The hurricane which devastated the coast of North Carolina some few weeks ago did immense damage, estimated at fully $2,000,000 In addition…
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