Freight Fight Storm Is Coming Hughes's Forecast Melbourne
In the opinion of the former Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), the situation which has arisen as a result of the changes in overseas…
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Flood Victims? Youths Missing Walk Over N.Z. Pass Wellington, N.Z.
FEARS arc entertained for the safety of two youths who left Lake Kainieri on January 8. to walk over Browning's Pass to Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tex Rickard Takes the Count. Death Claims the Greatest Fight Promoter. The future looks barren. Tex can't see any way to get another really great crowd together. Tex is fiftyfour, and time always tells. And Tex fears, though he might not put it in so many words, that maybe he won't be here when things pugilistic again shape up, so that thousands and thousands of humans can be welded into one vast mass of life under the spell of the white flood lights and the little dancing figures beneath
DID Tex Rickard, "the world's greatest fight fan impressario, as he is well described in the following article, who died at Miami Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hot To-day Thunderstorm May Arrive To-night
High temperatures and high humidity made yesterday a bit too warm for most city folk. At 9 p.m. the humidity was 84 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Recede in Queensland
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The floods in the Burdekin River receded to-day, and the southern-bound mail train crossed Inkerman Bridge safely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ugly Riot 800 Men Storm Wharf Women Look on Adelaide
Following the violent scenes on Monday, when watersiders stormed the steamer Mareeba, rioting again ocurred at Port…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Still at It on the Waterfront Mob Storms Ship Riot at Adelaide Wharf Urged on by Fifty Women Adelaide
ANOTHER sensation occurred on the waterfront at Port Adelaide to-day, when 800 waterside workers stormed a ship and two policemen were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Eject Many Women Heckling of A.C.T.U President Duggan Raises Storm When He Praises the "Big Four" Some Lively Interludes Melbourne
MANY WOMEN who heckled Mr. W. J. Duggan, chairman of the A.C.T.U., at a hip public meeting called to thank the "Big Four" for their labors, were ejected by police from the Melbourne Town Hall to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Shannon in Flood: Worst Experience for Many Years
Only once in the past 30 years was the flooding along the Shannon greater than it was at the end of November. Between the 25 miles that separate Athlone and Meelick…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Body Recovered Q'land Flood Victim Cairns
THE [?] of Henry Zell[?]ge, who was of the Herbert railway bridge [?] the fined waters on Monday, was found yesterday about four miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dust Storms at Yenda
"Dauntless," Yenda,'14/1/'29: Thursday and Friday, January 3 and 4, were very hot days. They were the worst for a long time. The winds would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Atlantic Gale. Liner's Rough Passage. New York, Jan. 1[?]
There is wild weather on the Atlant[?] The White Star liner Majestic, from Liverpool, docked 15 hours late. It is reported that a heavy sea[?] which swept aboard on January…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Booth's Stirring Appeal to Followers Launch Adrift at Mercy of Gale Tasmanian Rescue Robert
DRINKING helplessly for nearly 12 hours at the mercy of gales and rough [?]. Harry Clarke and two companions experienced an anxious…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Queensland Rains Floods and Loss of Life in the North
While almost the whole of New South Wales is in the grip of drought torrential rains over the greater part of Queensland have brought about a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Old Gundagai Tragedy of the Flood
"The original town of Gundagai was built, on the river flats," writes Mr. R. Rumble, in the Gundagai "Times," and was almost entirely swept away in 1852…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →No "Sparks" But Hsinwah Had Wireless Mate's Rescue Difficulties in Darkness and Gale SHANGHAI
Government officials are astounded at the revelation that the vessel Hsinwah, which sank off Hongkong with 300 souls, was fitted with wireless, but carried no wireless operator…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queensland Suffers in Cyclone Heavy Rain Causes Many Washaways
BRISBANE, Sunday.--The cyclonic weather which has hit the South Queensland coast has yielded torrential rain, and as it continues it may cause…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain. on North Coast. Farmers Benefit. Queensland Floods
Reports received at the Weather Bureau, covering the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. yesterday, showed that heavy rain had fallen on the north coast of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coastal Steamer Has Rough Time Ran Out of Coal in Teeth of Gale
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The North Coast S.N. Co.'s steamer Arakoon, which left Coff's Harbor for Sydney yesterday, had a rough trip down the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods May Follow Breaking of Drought "Noble Lad" Braved Sharks Coroner's Praise Bondi Horror Hero
AFTER returning a verdict of accidental death owing to the bite of a shark, at the inquest concerning the death…
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