Better Week-end Speed of Storm Too Fast for Rain
Heat waves relieved by strong southerlies are to be expected at this time of the year, according to the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares. The…
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Wrecked by the Gale Picture Show in Course of Erection at Mortdale Deafening Roar
WITH deafening roar, which carried for miles a picture show in course of erection at Mortdale collapsed before lite sale that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Killed in Storm Ships Adrift and Shop Windows Blown In Trams Disorganised
Two people--a man and a boy--were killed during last night's storm in Sydney. Shop windows were blown in by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Lives Lost in Last Night's Gale Sydney's Toll Widespread Damage Buildings Wrecked Lights Fail: Ships in Danger
AT least three lives were lost in the city and suburbs during the height of last night's southerly gale. Considerable damage was caused by the wind, which attained the almost record velocity of 63 miles an hour. Buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Dead Wind Storm Sweeps Sydney Man Crushed by Debris Dust Blinds Two Others. Collisions Result
Three lives Were lost in the wind storm that lashed Sydney last night, when the sultry conditions of the day abruptly changed. One man was buried under a pile. of debris and two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Racing Flames Menace the Wollondilly Valley Howling Gale Follows Sydney's Grilling Bush Fires in Many Parts, and Temperatures Reach Century Mark While State Swelters Women Help at Barrallier
Bush fires are raging in many parts of New South Wales. At Barrallier the racing flames now threaten the whole of the Wollondilly Valley. Men, women, and children are fighting desperately…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trains Stop Floods in Q'land Torrential Falls Cairns
RAILWAY traffic between Calms and Townsville is suspended to-day, owing to floods in the Herbert and Tully Rivers. Both streams are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FLOODS. North Queensland. Rain Inland. Brisbane
A telegram from Cardwell (far north const) states that incessant rain has fallen since 5 p.m. yesterday, the registration to 9 a.m. to-day being 317 points. The Tully River…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Floods in Queensland Innisfail
The Tully River railway bridge la covered with seven fees of water, but the river at Malanda is normal. For the 24 hours ending 9 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm Blows Over
THE "international incident" which threatened as a result of the removal of the cost-of-arms from the Italian Vice-Con[?]late at Innisfail has now definitely ended. This came about as a result of the confession of two youths that they…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Boatmen Safe Floods Cover Railway Bridge BRISBANE
Further heavy rain is reported from North Queensland. An additional 4½ inches fell at Cardwell, and the Tully River at noon to-day was 6½ft over the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Real Drama Sadie Gale's Acting
The best piece of dramatic acting in the new programme which opened at Fullers' Theatre was given by Sadie Gale, who sang of melodramatic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AFTER 3 Years Deluge for Drought Rockhampton
Rain registrations of between 350 and 600 points are reported from [?] centres in the Winton district, which was in the throes of a drought for three years…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wonderful Sky. Friday's Storm Effects
Roslyn Edkins of Randwick referring to Friday's remarkable storm effects writes:- "This afternoon, when the stormclouds stole across the sky after a very hot day, they were…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Morinda. Refloated Before Gale. Notable Salvage
On the return of the Morinda to Sydney yesterday it was learnt that the vessel was refloated only a few hours before the advent of a burst of bad weather that must have…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Grip of Flood Ties Up the North Traffic at Standstill Railways and Bridges Swamped Deluge Follows a Drought Cairns
THE flood position in the Cairns district is more acute to-day. The Kammerunga and Freshwater bridges, over the Baron River, are well under water, telephone lines are out of order, and the Tully River has broken its banks and flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods. in Queensland. Railway Submerged. Cardwell (Q.)
Torrential rain fell last night, 317 points being registered to 9 o'clock this morning. Tully registered 16 inches for 48 hours to 9 o'clock this morning, The water at 7…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Flood Trap Train Held Up in Creek Race for Safety Women and Children Sayed Rockhampton
There have been some dramatic incidents in connection with the floods which are reported from widespread districts…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miles of Country Flooded Cairns
Latest reports show that the flood position is more acute. The Tully River has broken its banks and is flooding miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Deluge of Ice Terrific N.Z. Storm Many Crops Ruined Wellington, N.Z.
A TERRIFYING storm, characterised by blinding lightning, crashes of thunder, and an almost unbelievable fall of hall, broke over…
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