Old Time Floods
The floods reported from various parts of the State revive interest in similar inundations in past years (writes Mr William Freame in the…
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Trains Run First in Week , Q'land Floods Waters Subside Cairns
MAIL trains ran to-day from Cairns southward, and also from Townsville to Cairns. It was the first time a train had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Where to Motor Adventurous Tour Through Flooded Areas the Bridge Problem New Punt for Lugarno
A TALE of adventures in a motor car through flooded Grafton and other districts is told by Mr. Fred. T. Hack. The N.R.M.A. discusses the position of motorists and the river…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Damage. Unrepaired Railway. Losses at Dorrigo. Dorrigo
The suspension of traffic on the GlonreaghDorrigo railway, due to damage caused by the recent floods, is proving a serious bindrance to the timber industry, as well as a great…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Man Blinded Melb. Thunderstorm £3000 Damage Melbourne
More than £3000 worth of damage was caused by last night's tropical thunderstorm--the most spectacular Melbourne has seen for years…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trains Stopped Q'land Floods 15 Inches in 24 Hours 8Ft. of Water on Line Cairns
Further heavy rain last night and this morning brought all streams between Cairns and Innisfall again into high flood, and the mall train which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lithgow Flood Victims Lithgow
The distress among [?] from the recent flood disaster was discussed by [?] Council, when [?] Knight M.L.A., [?] that the Government should…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dorrigo Isolated Flood Aftermath Dorrigo
The suspension of traffic on the Glenreagh-Dorrigo railway, due to the damage caused by recent floods, is proving a serious hindrance to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Losses on the Clarence Farmers' Conference to Consider
GRAFTON, Friday.--Speaking at ft meting of the Clarence District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, Mr. A. J. Pollack, M.L.A., said that what…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →How the Floods Restricted Betting at Grafton
IT IS EVIDENT, from the business-like appearance of this miniature turnout, that a good deal is sometimes expected ol. the goat. Sights like this are more common m Queensland than in New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Thunder Storm
The thunder rumbled, it rumbled loud, Grey clouds loomed 'gainst the sky. The lightning flashed in sheets and streaks Across the earth so dry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oh, Eve! Why People Gasped Tale of a Storm Lithgow
Adam and Eve in the orchard. A Marrangaroo orchard, near Lithgow. A young couple in a car pitched a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scots Whahae Fighting the Flood at Banksia Omelette or Haggis ?
It was late in the evening of that awful Saturday of a fortnight ago. It simply poured. The majority of Sydney-siders were…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Rising Floods Position in Queensland BRISBANE
Flood waters still are rising in flip north of Queensland. Inkerman Bridge has been submerged, and at Boogan near Innisfail, the flood waters entered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thunderstorm Hits Melbourne Most Spectacular for Years MELBOURNE
The thunderstorm which swept over Melbourne last evening was the most spectacular for years. The lightning flashed unceasingly, and several houses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Through Flood Morris-Cowley Shows the Way
"With one wheel in a track 15 inches deep, and the other on the side of the bank, I managed to make the ascent My…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →"Too Slow" League Storm Brewing Smuggled Guns Little Entente Squabble London
There are five truckloads of machine-gun parts, sidetracked at Saint Gothard, on the Hungaro-Austrian frontier, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Letter Bag Packing Up a Comet in a Suitcase It Cannot Cause Deluge Earth Is Quite Safe To the Editor
SIR.—Now that we have a connection of rain and floods, I would like to refer to a recent letter on that matter by "Saturn" If an infinitely distance small comet caused the rain, why has it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Damage Repairing Roads Griff[?]
Yanke [?] council has been made a special ground of £100 by Local Government Department towards the cost of repairing [?] to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Train Held Up on Flooded Bridge Thrilling Journey Cairns
CARRYING mails more than a week overdue, and 120 passengers, some of whom left Brisbane on February 27. a mail train arrived at…
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