Disastrous Storms. Crops Badly Damaged
Heavy [?] on Monday week, following on the drenching rain of the previous day, and accompanying the heavy rain after [?] immense damage to the crops in the Dubbo…
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Storm in Melbourne Streets Flooded Melbourne
One of the most severe rainstorms ever experienced in Melbourne broke over the city at 4.15 this afternoon. Within five minutes most of the main streets were covered with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Founders in a Gale British Steamer Lost London, Monday Night
The Elder Dempster liner Bornu, 3259 tons, foundered 25 miles west of Ushant, an island off Brittany, in a heavy gale. A Norwegian steamer picked up the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Foreign Cables a Season of Great Storms a Lifeboat Disaster in the Channel
A terrific storm raged on the south[?] and in the English Channel on Friday and Saturday. Many [?] lying on the Downs were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Dash at the Channel Shipping a German Destroyer Flotilla Ventures Out in a Storm a Sharp Encounter in the Straits of Dover with Losses on Both Sides
Taking advantage of the storm that sprang up in the English Channel on Thursday evening a flotilla of ten of the newest, speediest, and best-gunned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Downpours. Result of Thunderstorm
Thunderstorms were much in evidence along the coastal regions of New South Wales during the 48 hours ended at 9 a.m. yesterday, and some heavy downpours were reported…
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Reports received at Wagga show that the storm of October 22 travelled across practically the whole of Central and Eastern Riverina and the south-western slopes. Wheat…
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Considerable damage was done to property in Waverley, Woollahra, Paddington, and other suburbs by a terrific storm during the early hours of October 29…
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Most of the south-western districts of Queensland were flooded last week, and there were numerous railway washaways. A train from Cheepie, due at Charleville on October 23…
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Some of the paddocks of native and English grasses in important cheese districts along the South Coast have been heavily coated with sand. as a result of the recent floods. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weathering the Storm Roumania Takes Offensive Bigger Battles Imminent Successes South of Brasso Ninety-first Day of the Third Year of the War LONDON, Wednesday Night
A Petrograd telegram states that the Roumanians in Transylvania have resumed the initiative at several points. The situation south of Dorna Watra (the junction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fine, But Warm Some Thunderstorms
City Forecast.--Fine, south-east winds. New South Wales Forecast.--More thunderstorms in the north-east, elsewhere fine, variable winds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Floods
In a dry summer, and the summers mostly were dry, the creek was only a chain of water holes, winch grew fewer and fewer until all that remained was a hollow of sun-cracked,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Unsettled Conditions. Scattered Thunderstorms
Cloudy conditions have developed over New South Wales in consequence of some monsoonal activity inland, but indications not favor the occurrence of a rainstorm. Humidity…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Thunderstorms in the Country. Light to Heavy Rain
Light lo heavy rain, associated with thunder, has fallen in the north-eastern quarter of the State, and light to moderate falls in the southwest. Ballina, on the North Coast, received…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This Morning's Cables. Heavy Rain. Fighting in the West
LONDON, Sunday.--Sir Douglas Haig reports:-- "Heavy rain fell on Saturday night. The trench mortars have been busily engaged,"…
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A French official message on Friday stated: The British stormed the village of Alitsa, on the left bank of the Struma. A later French communique says: The…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Sunday,--William Clarke, an employee at Murwillumbah Water Works, Korumbyn Creek, was drowned while he and a man named Alfred Davey were attempting to…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.--The creeks and rivers in'the Charleville district are again rising, and floods are feared…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Caulfield Training. Heavy Rain This Morning
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