Damage by Floods Dorrigo Line Clear
THE Railway Department announces that the full service of trains on the Glenreagh-Dorrigo line, which has been suspended for some weeks owing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods & storms, 1928
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Cold Tea Cools Italians Engines Arctic's Secrets Through Fog and Storm King's Bay, Spitzbergen
So frigid was the snowstorm that impeded the return of the "Italia" after our three days' exploratory flight in the direction…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrific Storms Impede Italia's Return Cooling Apparatus Froze; Flasks of Wine Turn to "Red Ice" King's Bay (Spitzbergen)
Terrific storms and fog impeded the return of Commander Nobile in the airship Italia from the cruise in the empty spaces of the Arctic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BREAKING Lilly Pronto Case Raises a Storm
THE big talk in trotting circles during the past week has been the disqualification of Lilly Pronto…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Legacy of Flood. State Mine Closes. BRISBANE
During the recent floods in Central Queensland there was a big subsidence at the State coal mine at Baralaba, where the mine office and a number of railway coal hoppers were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fog This Morning and Showers To-day Thunderstorms Also Expected
Cloudy weather was experienced over most of the State yesterday afternoon, and scattered rain is expected within 36 hours. Thunderstorms should give…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Couldn't Land Italia at Pole in Heavy Storm King's Bay
GENERAL NOBILE'S airship Italia left on its flight to the North Pole at 4.28 this morning. By 10 o'clock it was over Amsterdam Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Empire Day's Significant Message World's Economic Pressure How to Stay Great Floodtide Statesman Strikes Clarion Note
EMPIRE Day, which is being commemorated to-day in every country flying the British flag, synchronises fittingly with Empire Shopping Week in N.S.W. The community wants to remember to-day that speeches, songs, sentiment, powerful and inspiriting though they are in cementing British bonds, will not stay for ever the floodtide of economic pressure from without…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →State of the Roads Brisbane to Grafton Ravages of Flood Rains Official N.r.m.a. Road Report Pot Holes on Fine Route
THE condition of that important length of main road from Brisbane to Grafton is to-day described in detail by the N.R.M.A. Touring Department, in continuing a special report by one of the association's officers now on a tour through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rough Roads Brisbane to Grafton Ravages of Flood Rains
The condition of the important length of main road from Brisbane to Grafton is described in detail by the N.R.M.A. Touring Department, in a special report by an officer on tour through northern New South Wales and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dark Ship in Terrific Storm Rimutaka's Ordeal Wellington
A terrific cyclone was encountered by the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rimutaka on the voyage from London to Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Parson's "Damn" Aveling's Rector Storm in a Tea-cup London
REV OSWALD HAYDEN, rector of Aveling, Gloucestershire, has been found guilty of having used a big "D" and telling splev…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone in Pacific. Steamer's Perilous Time. Cabins Flooded. Wellington (N.z.)
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rimutaka encountered a cyclone in the Pacific on the run from London, via Panama, to Wellington, and on the afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fury of Pacific Rimutaka in Cyclone' Flooded : in Darkness Engineers' Fight to Save Ship Wellington, N.Z.
A TERRIFIC cyclone which lasted for 48 hours was encountered by the steamer Rimutaka, on her latest voyage from Southampton to Wellington. Mountainous seas washed the vessel from stem to stern, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swept by Waves 30Ft. High Vessel Battles in Cyclone for 48 Hours Iron Rails Snapped
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday. -- A terrific cyclone lasting 48 hours was encountered in the Pacific in the vicinity of Rapa Island by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →STORM-PROOF Essex Sedans and Coaches Swept into the Sea
CHICAGO, April 16, 1928. WITH the arrival here of the steamship Sultana, from Detroit, Capt. David Smith reported…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storm and Stress Airship's Antarctic Adventure Ice Bars the Way London
Following many hours of anxiety, a wireless message was received at King's Bay at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon saying that General Nobile expected the Italia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Italia is Missing Over Storm-Lashed Polar Sea Anxiety Relief Ship Ready Has Fuel Failed? King's Bay (Spitzbergen)
Where is the Italia? The failure of the great airship, with its gallant, commander, General Nobile, to return after the flight over the North Pole is causing the gravest concern. No news…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods
A number of persons, including women and children, have been drowned in the waters of the River Ob, West Siberia. The river has been rising rapidly the past few…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Damaged by Gales. Rimutaka and Scheldepas
Information forwarded by our New Zealand correspondent reports severe buffeting experienced by the steamer Rimutaka, while en route…
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