Flood Fears Melbourne
There is danger of the flood position becoming serious at Shepparton, where the Goulburn River has risen. since yesterday to flood level (33ft.), but is…
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Cars Afloat Storm-tight Essex
With the arrival of the steamship Sultana at Chicago from Detroit recently, Capt. David Smith reported a rough voyage, in which he lost 42 Essex…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Answers to Questions Legal. Dam Flooding a Road
"Shut In" writes: (1) Is a property owner entitled to dam a creek (or assuming it has already been dammed) and, by doing so, back the water across…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Floods in Victoria Shepparton District Melbourne
Serious floods threatened the Shepparton district owing to the River Goulburn rising to flood level. Lowlying areas are submerged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pacific Flight. Nearing the End. Plane Fights Through Storm. Due This Morning. Record of Wonderful Progress
At 2.52 yesterday afternoon (Suva time) the Southern Cross took the air from Nasalei beach and began the final stage of the Pacific flight—to Brisbane. Kingsford Smith expressed the opinion that the 'plane…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Due at Brisbane, 8.30 This Morning "Southern Cross" Fights Storm Blown Out of Course; But "We're O.k." Fliers Say Half-way After Nine Hours
THE "Southern Cross" is expected to arrive at Brisbane at 8.30 this morning. Following their sale arrival in the northern capital, they will come on to Sydney and land at Mascot at 3 p.m. on Sunday. At 1.30 this morning the 'plane was 576 miles from Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Repair of Flood Damage Narrandera
The Local Government Department has much a further grant of £100 to the [?] Shile Council toward the repair of damages a rought by [?]ood waters in Feb…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vivid Radios Tell of Grim Fight Against Two Hours' Storm Smith and Ulm Soaked Through and Hungry, but Hope to Have "a Bite and a Drop" When Weather Clears 'Plane Drops 400 Feet in Air Pockets
A graphic story of how the Southern Cross, winging its way across the Pacific, triumphed over a fierce storm is told in vivid radios sent from the 'plane to the "Pictorial," through Broadcasters. "For the past two hours we have been battling through the worst weather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Driving Into Storms with a Stowaway Girl
Working as a seaman on the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, that went roaring through green seas and hurricanes from South Australia to England with a girl stowaway aboard, and beat her rival in a race of 14,000 miles, was A. J. Villiers, a Tasmanian newspaperman. From the fo'[?]sle where he wrole it…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Grim Struggle Against Ocean Storms Hop to Brisbane Was Worst Fliers Wet and Cold
A grim struggle against storms -- the worst on the whole flight -- marked the last stage of the epic achievement of the Southern Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Storm Policeman Attacked Woman Faints
At the Kogarah. Police Court to-day a man in the body of the court suddenly jumped to his, feet, shouted something, and rushing across the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Trawler Lost in Gale Thomas Bryan Piled on N.Z. Rocks
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Monday. -- At the height of a north-easterly gale the trawler Thomas Bryan, owned by Sandford, Limited, of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →United States. Wave of Prosperity. Not Yet Reached Flood. Washington. June 11
President Coolldge, addressing the Government Bureau heads, predicted that the United States would continue prosperous during [?]. He said: "We have been favoured with a long…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Italia's Gondola Snapped From Beam During Storm Wireless Tells of Grim Drama in Silent World of Ice and Snow Nobile and Seven Others Fell, While Remaining Members of Crew Drifted Away in Airship's Envelope Now on Floes Awaiting Rescue Rome
The first meagre tidings of the disaster that befell the Italia on the return journey from the North Pole have been officially issued. They show that the gondola of the airship snapped from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm-Tight Cars
DURING the voyage of the steamship Sultana from Detroit to Chicago on April 16th 42 Essex sedans and coaches were swept overboard. "Al the…
Continued on Trove, page 52 →In the Storms. Graphic Story
A graphic story of his flight from San Francisco to Brisbane was related by Captain Kingsford Smith in acknowledging congratulatory speeches tendered him and his three…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Saw the Storm While Southern Cross Fought
When the barquentine Alexa, which reached Sydney today from the Gilbert Islands, was a little south east of Cape Moreton on Friday night, the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Airmen Carry City by Storm. Tremendous Demonstrations. Honoured by Ministry and Aero Club
Still more tributes to their gallantry the people poured upon Captain Kingsford Smith and his companions yesterday. In huge crowds they waited about the streets to see the aviators, and followed them from engagement to engagement…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Smash in Storm
When Cecil Seymour, 24, of Dudley-street, Coogee, was driving a motor-car along Trafalgar-street, Annandale, in the blinding rain, he collided with an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Storm Damage in Suburbs--
BEAM WIRELESS EXTENSION.-- A new service will be opened to Canada, U.S.A., South and Central America on June 16. Above: The transmitting station at Ballan, Victoria. THE WORKERS' INDUSTRIAL UNION of Australia, Mining Department, now sitting in convention at the Trades Hall. DR. BRADFIELD (second from left) shows Messrs. Roper, Buttenshow. Tye, and Harkness progress on the bridge-- they are watching concrete being poured into one of the arches…
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