39 Drowned Transport Sinks in Storm One Survivor Valparaiso (Chile)
Thirty-nine sailors were drowned when the Chilean transport Abtac sank oft this port in a storm. Three vessels answered the radio…
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Floods Follow New Zealand Earthquakes
The town of Seddonville, on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand, was overwhelmed when the Mokihinui River broke through a dam created by a landslide during the recent earthquakes. The house in the centre of the picture was carried fifty yards by floodwaters…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Tasmanian Parliament. Repairing Flood Damage. Hobart
The House of Assembly to-night passed through all stages a bill providing for the raising of a loan of £25,000 for the reconstruction and repair of railway works destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Flood's Havoc in New Zealand
Wreckage and debris piled against an abandoned carriage in the railway yards at Seddonville, South Island…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Mr. John Gale. Queanbeyan
About 300 people attended the funeral of the late Mr. John Gale at Queanbeyan this afternoon There was a special service in the Queanbeyan Methodist Church, conducted by…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fought Storms Freighter's Heavy List Bio Deck Cargo Melbourne
With an alarming, list to port, the American freighter Golden Rod berthed at Victoria Dock to-day, after a stormy…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Ordeal in Snow Tvs. Prospectors Trapped by Storm Hobart
AFTER a [?] experience in the [?] Arrowsmith two [?] S. T. Laughton and T. Johnson who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood in N.z. After Rain and Snow Wellington, [?]
HEAVY rare at [?] heavy 9 to the 9 which has 9 the plant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Big Cyclone
"GLARENCE LAKE" [?]—I hat twelve years of ago and live on a dairy farm with my mother and father We are milking thirty-five cows now,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Liners in Storm Calcutta
TWO River Hooghly shipping pilots are now on an unexpected sea trip. They left Calcutta to guide lines bound for Japan and England to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country News Funeral of Mr. John Gale
QUEANBEYAN, Thursday. -- The funeral of the late Mr. John Gale, the veteran journalist, yesterday afternoon was one of the largest…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Five Days in the Storm Melbourne
After a stormy voyage from Seattle the American freighter Golden Rod arrived to-day with [?] cargo of [?]imter. She was storm battered for five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hillside Orchards Cultivation to Prevent Loss of Soll by Rain Storms
In orchards that are situated on hillsides, as many are so placed in New South Wales—particularly citrus orchards inthe Hills district, and in there is always a danger of loss of soll as a result of heavy rain. It is essential, therefore, to take such measures as will reduce this loss to a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →N.Z. FLOODS. After the Earthquake. Great Damage. Wellington (N.z.)
Reports of upheavals in the seabed, and changes of the contour of the foreshore on the coast between Greymouth and Farewell Spit, and possibly similar happenings in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Disastrous Floods. Twelve Persons Dead. Calcutta, July 18
Disastrous floods following torrential rain have occuued in Western and Southern India Shikaipur, in the Sind Province is completety submerged, houses having collapsed,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Flood Danger Wall of Weir Subsides Treble Shifts at Work Melbourne
The Premier (Sir Wm. McPherson) to-day Inspected the Elidon Weir, where 300 men are working in treble shifts to repair the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Floods in New Zealand Dunedin
Otago in common with other parts of the south Island, is experiencing heavy rains. A large part of the Taleri Plain is covered with water to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tasmanian Flood Victims Hobart
The Premier stated to-night that the Tasmanian flood [?]llef fund committee was now in a position to issue letters of credit to approved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Flood Sufferers
An original and clever display by members of the Bjelke-Petersen Physical Culture Club was given at King's Hall last night, in aid of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Mr. John Gale
One of the oldest, if not the oldest, local preacher in Methodism in New South Wales—Mr. John Gale, of Queanbeyan—passed away on Monday last at the advanced age of 98 years. He moved in many…
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