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We in Australia have many a time suffered much from flood; and there is scarcely a district of our outer areas which has not known the rush and riot of devastating…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →According to a report prepared by the engineer the damage caused at Chichester Dam by the flood is estimated at between £4000 and £5000. In addition many hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The drowning of 23 white women and children five miles from Memphis on Sunday in what was thought to be a safe refuge, but proved to be a trap,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Booth, M.L.A., and the president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. D. Rees) waited to-day on Mr. Bellemore, of the Department of Labor and Industry, and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The serious losses of stock sustained by farmers in the Wollamba district, through absence of warning, during the recent floods, would probably have been…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →There photos, were taken is Maitland last week, (1) A 'bus going through the water in High Street, Wait Maitland, opposite the embankment. (1. Walker Street, South Maitland, from Elgin Street Bridge, (3) Elgin Street showing park gates. (4) South Maitland, from Railway Bridge, where Kurri Road enters Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About a week ago Wallsend colliery was flooded by a rush of water through a subsidence in the Wallsend Soccer Football Ground. Three hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →With the Mississippi surging past, this city at the rate of an excess of two million cubic feet of water a second, and an excess of three…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The interstate passenger steamer Riverina, bound from Hobart to Sydney, ran ashore on a beach on the Victorian coast, a short distance to the westward of Gabo, on the night of Sunday, April 17. The passengers were safely landed last week, and came overland to Sydney from Mallacoota, a few miles from the wreck, white efforts were being made by tugs to get the steamer afloat…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →While very heavy losses were suffered by many municipal and shire councils during the recent heavy rainstorms, less damage was done in…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →MR. E. Lindsay Thompson of chitect for the Manly S[?] Baths, in forwarding to the council last night information…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Plum-headed, or Plain-coloured, Finch is found in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. In New South Wales it is mostly confined to the northern half and the western districts, and in Queensland to the southern portions. On one occasion, while on a visit to the Blue Mountains, I met a small party of these finches at Narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →[?] have been thrown out of work. The South Mailand railways opened Tuesday after being under water for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ESTIMATES of the number of dead in the flood-stricken areas varied to-day between 200 and 500. Refugees from the newly-inundated sections of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana have swelled the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Erina Shire Council has decided to ask the Local Government Department tor a special grant of £10,000 to repair damage done to roads in the shire by flood waters. These…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →General Green, commanding the Mississippi National Guard at Memphis, has ordered ihe torcible evacuation of Greenville, Leland, and other ther flooded towns. A fleet of more than 100…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →CESSNOCK experienced a bad time through the floods. Residents in the low-lying portions of the town, who were flooded out of their homes at the end of last year, anticipated trouble early…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Estimates by the Secretary for Commerce (Mr. Hoover) place the death roll in the Mississippi floods at between 200 and 400. More than 150,000 people are homeless. An inspection of the huge inland lake reveals amazing devastation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Asked to report on the Manly Baths after the Easter storms the architect had an inspection made by his engineer, Mr. Messey, and at last night's…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →There are now 146,000 homeless owing to the Mississippi floods. In some sections the refuges have been as soon as they were[?]…
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