Tea Districts Flooded in Mid-harvest Thousands May Starve Calcutta
THE flooding of the river Teesta has placed Dears, one of the most important tea districts, in a precarious position at the height of the harvest…
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Mystery Puzzle with a Catch in It Begins in the "Sunday News" Fifty Pounds for Solutions Will Take Sydney by Storm
FIFTY POUNDS await the solvers of a most entrancing puzzle contest, which will begin in the next issue of the "Sunday News," and will take Sydney by storm. It looks easy, but, frankly, there is a catch is it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in America Harvesting Suspended Crops Badly Damaged
Torrential rains have been fulling in the wheat-growing districts of Canada for ever a week and all harvesting operations have had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Deluge Story of the '67 Flood, From Authentic Records
Last week we published a first instalment of the story of the groat Nepean-Hawkesbury Flood of 1867. In continuation, we quote…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Law Report. Banco Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon and jury.) FREY v GALE
This case remains part heard…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Storms for Lang Caucus Foes Wavering Those Bribery Charges Many Bills Proposed for New Session
Apart from the caucus intrigue to place the Minister for Lands (Mr. Loughlin) in the leadership of the Parliamentary Labor Party stormy times are said to be ahead of the Premier (Mr. Lang)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death Flash Youth's Lucky Escape Terrific Storm Can Knocked From Hand Junee
Death Mashed a sword of fire in Allan Boyton's face yesterday--and passed by. During a terrific storm which struck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sind's Plague Snakes in Flood-waters Calcutta
The roads throughout Sind (Western India) are practically impassable owing to floods in the Indus. Swarms of strange snakes have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Yacht Damaged in a Gale SUVA. August 28
The American yacnt Elennor, owned and sailed by Mr. Altken, an American lawyer, who has been which is sailing from the Philippines to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Severe Storm Junee in Darkness Man's Narrow Escape Junee
On Friday afternoon, a severe thunderstorm struck Junee. The town was almost in darkness for half an hour. Allan Boyton, of Illabo, had a narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dandenong Gale Half a Century Ago
There are yet to-day mariners and landlubbers who speak of the gale that overwhelmed the Melbourne steamer Dandenong in 1876 as the most…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Storm of Letters Last Hour Rush Helping the G.p.o
It you are the head of a big business house, and have all your day's letters posted between 5 and C p.m., you may now be able to gaze on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Law Report. Banco Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon and jury.) FREY v GALE
This case remains part heard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cobham's Flight Still No News Five Days' Silence Cyclone Feared
British Wireless Press, by courtesy of Amalgamated Wireless (A'sin), Ltd. LONDON, Tuesday Evening. ALTHOUGH nothing has been heard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Law Report. Banco Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon and jury.) FREY v GALE
This action remains part heard…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gruelling Flying in Gale Hinkler Retires the Handy Moth London, Wednesday Night
A 43- mile wind, increasing to a gale with heavy squalls, provided a most gruelling test for the light 'planes' low- powered motors, which made three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Law Report. Banco Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon and jury.) FREY v GALE
The action remains part heard…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cobham's Trial Fought the Storm Terrible Deluge 400 Miles in Rain
Mr. Alan Cobham, who is returning to England after his flight to Australia, and from whom nothing had been heard since Friday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold at Niangala. Storm Leads to Discovery
The discovery of gold at Niangala, about forty miles from Tamworth (N.S.W.), has created considerable interest, and although as yet little…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →COBHAM's Flight Storm Fiend Airman Pursued Held Up Again Rangoon
CAPTAIN COBHAM, who hoped to make the [?]-mile flight from [?] to Cal[?] to-day, has been held up again owing to bad…
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