Mackay Cyclone. Damage to the Sugar Crop. Heavy Loss
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1918 · page 11
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Mr. Bumford, M.H.R., and Senator Crawford, who, as commissioners for the Commonwealth Government, which voted £5000 towards the relief of sufferers,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sugar Losses. Through Mackay-cyclone. Total, £256,569. MELBOURNE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 March 1918 · page 13
Senator Crawford and Mr. Bamford, M.H.R., who were appointed commissioners by the Federal Ministry to inquire concerning the damage done by the recent disaster at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SALLY. The Tale of A Currency Lass. Chapter L.—The Great Flood
The World's News · Saturday 9 March 1918 · page 22
THE rain came pelting down in drenching sheets, and a cold, bleak wind scurried the grey waves of drifting clouds across the great wall of the Blue…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Storm at Harden Damage Done in Orchards Harden
Sunday Times · Sunday 10 March 1918 · page 2
After a spell of muggy weather, a heavy thunderstorm of cyclonic violence passed over the district, succeeded by a fall of hail, the heaviest known for years. Some of the stones…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gallant Belgians Great Stand Against Storm Troops Officer and Nine Men Repel 300 LONDON
Sunday Times · Sunday 10 March 1918 · page 1
The latest French communique reports intermittent reciprocal artillery fire on the right bank of the Mouse. A Belgian communique is to the effect that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Cyclone. North Queensland Threatened. Special Weather Warning
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 March 1918 · page 5
BRISBANE, Sunday. -- The Weather Bureau issued a special report at 8 o'clock to-night, intimating that a new tropical disturbance is approaching the Queensland coast with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thunderstorm in the City 225 Points at Bronte
The Sun · Monday 11 March 1918 · page 3
City Forecast.--At first cloudy with some passing showers, but temporarily fine during the evening; further showers probable at night or early on Tuesday morning; fresh south-west…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Southerly Change. Thunderstorm in the City
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 March 1918 · page 9
A cool, squally southerly change affected the South Coast of New South Wales at 9 a.m. yesterday, and by 10.40 a.m. had reached Sydney. The attending wind was mostly from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cyclone. North Queensland Affected
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 4
BRISBANE, Monday.— The Weather Bureau issued the following special report at 10 o`clock this morning:-- "No observations have been received this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland. Another Cyclone Feared. Brisbane
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 7
The following special report was issued by the Weather Bureau at 8.30 p.m. on Sunday: A new tropical disturbance has approached the Queensland coast with remarkable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Chillagoe in a Gale. Badly Buffeted
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 2
The Australian Steamships steamer Chillagoe, which arrived at Rockhampton on the 7th inst, from Sydney experienced the full force of the gale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Cyclone Babinda Suffers One Killed; 17 Injured
The Sun · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 5
A special report issued by the Weather Bureau on Sunday night at Brisbane stated that a dangerous cyclone was approaching, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Losses in Late Cyclone. Sugar-Growers to be Recouped. MELBOURNE
Evening News · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 5
The Federal Government has definitely decided to recoup sugar growers all their [?] by the recent cyclone in Queensland. It is estimated that this will require an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Weather Another Cyclone Coming on the Coast Northward of Townsville
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 5
The Weather Bureau, in Brisbane, on Sunday night issued a special repot , givening warning of a new tropical disturbance that was approaching the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Cyclone. Damage in Queensland. Babinda Suffers Severely. One Killed, 17 Injured. Brisbane
Evening News · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 5
Cyclonic rains have occurred in North Queensland and in consequence five inches of rain fell at Clarke River Township. There was a rapid rise in the Burdekin River at Charters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Noxious Weeds the Prickly-pear Pest in Queensland. Spread by Flood Waters
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 7
The Queensland Director of Agriculture (Mr. Quodling), upon his return from a tour of the central districts, reported that much prickly-pear seemed to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Losses Through Floods
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 10
Heavy losses have occurred through floods in Poverty Bay, New Zealand. It has earned a reputation of living up to its name…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The North Queensland Cyclone
The Sun · Wednesday 13 March 1918 · page 7
A telegram received this afternoon from Brisbane states that Sunday's cyclone practically wrecked Innisfail, an important sugar- growing centre on the Johnstone River, 145 miles north of Townsville. The picture to the left is a view of Innisfail, and the other shows the Johnstone River, on the banks of which the town is built. It was reported yesterday that a cyclone had done much damage in North Queensland, and that the township of Babinda had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale at Murrumbuerah. Murrumburrah
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1918 · page 11
A strong gale, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, passed over the town on Saturday afternoon, doing considerable damage. The verandah of the Telegraph…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gale at Townsville. Townsville
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1918 · page 11
An easterly gale having velocity of 50 miles an hour blew all night and piled up the biggest tide seen for years. It reached the bank of the bowling green on the strand, and was…
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