Faced Death on Pole Brave Linemen Mid Storm and Fire Newcastle
In the height of to-night's gale, a high tension power pole in King Street caught fire through contact with a live wire…
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Menacing Migration Flood
Sir.--Repeated warnings of an imperialist conspiracy to flood Australia with British unemployed have been given. Immigration must pull down…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dry Spell Broken Heavy Rain in Queensland Brisbane
The dry spell has been broken on the Darling Downs, where badly-needed rain fell heavily last night. In Toowoomba over an inch was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cyclone Sweeps Darling Downs Buildings Damaged Dry Spell Broken Toowoomba
THERE was a break in the dry spell in parts of the Darling Downs late yesterday afternoon. The storms were cyclonic in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oft-flooded Road Newtown Worry Remedy Is Sought
THE Town Clerk of Sydney, Mr. Layton, suggested to Newtown Council last night that in view of the continued flooding of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Rain. On North Coast. Heat Wave Inland
Some torrential falls of rain occurred on the North Coast, and light to moderate falls were recorded over central and north coastal areas and on the highlands during the 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Queer Storms Brisbane
THE dry spell on the Darling Downs has broken. Good cyclonic falls recorded 219 points at Allor[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hot and Sultry Dust Storms Inland State Almost Rainless
City Forecast.--At first fine and hot, with passing clouds and fresh and squally north-west wind: a cool, squally south to south-west change by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Severe Storm Damage by Hail Crops Suffer Glen Innes
A hailstorm in Emmaville and Tent Hili districts on Tuesday afternoon was one of the worest on record in the north…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flooded with Drought-Stricken Animals. Homebush Stock Sales. Protest from New England
New England stockmen are incensed at the way in which the Homebush stock sales are at times inundated with stock from…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Flood of German Knives and Scissors Dear at Any Price Inferior Steel
BRITISH retailers are buying thousands of German pocket- knives and seizzors at 8 a dozen, and selling them over the counter…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Liner Captain's Feat in Great Gale. Adriatic Put About in Atlantic While Havoc Was Repaired
The unusual and extremely hazardous feat of putting about a 25,000 ton ship in a 60-miles-an-hour wind, and waves 40 feet high, was performed by Captain Frank Beadnell,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man's Body Found. in Flood Debris
A telegram was received in Sydney yesterday by Superintendent Munkey, chief of the detective branch, from Sergeant Willis at Collarenebri, stating that the body of an aged…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Storm-breaker
House Peters, in "The Storm Breaker," an adventure of the high seas, screened at the Lyric Theatre for the first time on Saturday evening, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scow in Danger Hard Fight with Gale Engine Room Flooded Wellington (N.z.)
The Gisborne Harbor Board's scow Ngaha[?] had a perilous voyage from Wellington to Gisborne. At times all hope of living out the gale was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Severe Hail Storm. Farmers' Heavy Losses. Glen Innes
A hailstorm, which swept over a three-mile wide truck from Ben Lomond to Emmaville, inflicted considerable damage to crops. At Wellingrove the full blast of the storm was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Foundered Off Cape Maria Karu in Heavy Storm Six Are Missing One Man Drowned Wellington N. Z. [?]
AFTER battling in the teeth of a howling gale for two days, the steamer Karu, 267 tons, sprang a leak and foundered off Cape Maria,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eagel and McGALE
AMERICAN George Eagel who was recently married in Melbourne has telegraphed that he is willing to meet Frisco…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fierce Gales Scow's Rough Passage Wellington (N.z.)
Heavy seas off the east coast of "Wellington and Hawkes Bay dealt severely with the small auxiliary scow Ngahu, which left Wellington on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our South African Letter. Eight Killed in Veldt Storm Lightning's Toll Rhodesia Hanging Second in Three Decades Johannesburg. Feb. 6
A few days ago during a storm at Bolotwa, near East London, a native woman was killed by lightning in a hut, and the building was burned to…
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