In Sore Distress. Starving Germans Throng Quays. Women Storm Ships
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A Thunderstorm
Sir Henry Parkes was fond of telling an amusing story about one of his children. O[?] a thunderstorm the child's mother left it in a room along, telling him to stay there with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in Queensland Brisbane
Advices from Comet, on Central Raliway, state that Mackenzie River, at its junction with the Nogoa, was 66 feet above summer level on Friday evening. The previous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disastrous Floods. Queensland
BRISBANE, Sunday.--A new tropical disturbance is approaching the Queensland coast from the central districts. Later advices indicate that the disturbance is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Other Visitations the 1893 Deluge Loss in New South Wales
The year 1893 was a disastrous period for both Queensland and New South Wales. In February severe. storms and floods did immense damage and in the following June,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fearful Floods. Disaster in Queensland. Fifty-two Persons Drowned Many Others Missing
[?] floods, [?] have occurred centre of devastation [?] Queensland, a mining [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queensland Floods. Fitzroy River Rising. (Continued from [?]) BRISBANE, Friday Afternoon
No fresh news has [?] regarding the [?] floods in the [?] ganges overflowed and communication [?] the place has been 9 last that day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Tasmania. Heavy Damage. Hobart
Saturday's floods, following on Friday's cloud-burst, caused great damage to property and the railway lines at Bridgewater, along the Derwent-Ha[?]ey line, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Calamitous Floods Reports from Queensland Hundred Persons Missing Great Destruction of Property Brisbane
An urgent telegram was received by the Deputy Postmaster-General to-day from Black Ridge, in the Clermont mining district, situated by [?] 228 miles from Rockhampton, reporting the occurrence of calamitous floods. The message states that, by reason of the visitation of devastating floods,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clermont Floods
CENTRAL QUEENSLAND, SHOWING CLERMONT, LONGREACH, ROCKHAMPTON, AND MACKAY…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Uncomfortable Weather Rain and Thunderstorms
City Forecast. -- Unsettled and close, with thunderstorms and squalls, chiefly north-east winds. New South Wales Forecast. -- Cloudy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Floods Little Known Yet Serious Loss of Life Towns Isolated BRISBANE
Nothing definite is known us to the number of lives lost in the Clermont disaster. The police estimate the number at 100; but it is probable that this is excessive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →50 People Drowned. 100 Others Missing. Queensland Flood Disaster Clermont Under Water. Survivors in Dike Straits
Messages received from Brisbane last night give meagre details of a big disaster at Clermont, in Central Queensland, where owing to floods, three parts of the main street have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hot and Sultry. Scattered Thunderstorms
Beautifully fine clear weather prevailed yesterday in all parts of New South Wales, except on the far South Coast and in the extreme south-west divisions; northerly winds, with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Rain at Parramatta
Warm to hot a [?] general [?] this morning escape in the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Severe Storm at Hobar. Many Houses Flood
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At 3 o'clock a thunderstorm of great violence broke over Parramatta. Heavy rain, accompanied by hail. fell. The rain gradually became worse and the lightning more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Storms. Hobart Houses Swamped. Furniture Floating About
HOBART, Tuesday.--A tropical thunderstorm was experienced here to-day. In less than five minutes all the gutters were overflowing, and whole thoroughfares from path to path were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Oppressive Day in City. Violent Storm at Parramatta
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrific Storm. Exciting Time on Transport Sailors Washed Overboard
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