Drowned in Flooded Creek. Goulburn
A drowning fatality occurred at Yarra, a few miles from Goulburn this morning. John George Ferguson, aged 65, was attempting to swim his horse across Yarra Creek, which was…
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A drowning fatality occurred at Yarra, a few miles from Goulburn this morning. John George Ferguson, aged 65, was attempting to swim his horse across Yarra Creek, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wagga Police are in receipt of the following message from the police at Gundagai:--"The river at Jug[?]ong is 12 feet high…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Goulburn experienced its biggest flood for half a century. The top photograph shows the club house of the golf links, from which the caretaKer was rescued in a boat. The lower picture is a view looking east from the railway station. The pines mark the main street to the eastern suburbs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tree tops, bits of fencing here and there, the upper portions of telegraph poles, and the roofs of two small railway waiting-rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Running several hours late owing to the gale, the passenger steamer Canberra arrived lost evening from Melbourne. She met the bad weather after passing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Acting on advices from the Weather Bureau, the Superintendent of Navigation (Captain Cumming) is warning shipping of the cyclone. It has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After thoroughly drenching—and in some parts flooding—the northeast of N.S.W. the cyclonic storm—which first made its way down…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain Lucas, master of the interstate trader Yankalilla, to-day reported having passed through the vortex of the cyclone when near Gabo. For 16…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Mares said to-day that the present rain was due to a revival of south-west to south-east winds associated with the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Just north of Gabo island the Adelaide Company's steamer Yankalilla ran into the cyclone. Her engines broke down, and her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The recent cyclonic disturbance can now be said to have passed beyond the limits of New-South Wales, Last night there were no indications of a return of unsettled conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Messrs. E. H. Taylor & Co., of Bathurst, report a small yarding of only seventy cattle at thier sale on Wednesday last, consisting chiefly of interior cattle, no prime sorts being forward…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As the result of a monsoonal stor[?] at the beginning of the week practically the whole of New South Wales has received a thorough drenching. In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cablegrams from Peking tell of unprecedented rains and floods which art ruining the crops in Northern China. The floods also threaten serious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General rain has fallen, and the dry spell is broken in many districts of the North North-West. and Central West. On the Coast, there have been…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Alarming repoits reached here this morning through the police, who sent telephone messages warning people to shift off low-lying country, and remove their stock to higher…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The flood waters have now receded, and residents in the affected areas are taking stock. There has been extensive damage to fences and gardens…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Goulburn scorns to have struck an unlucky week. On Monday a resident of Moss Vale district died in the local district hospital of injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lachian River has risen to 251ft. 6in. at Forbes. As the danger level is 27ft 6in. the position is regarded with apprehension. The Murrumbidgee has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cooma mail is stranded at Queanbeyan. It left bore as usual, but after proceeding to Michelago had to return here owing to the damaged…
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