Raises a Storm
STORMS are brewing for the N.S.W. Amateur Swimming Association in the near future. Oliver J. A. Kemp,…
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Before Storm Lull at Canberra Cabinet Meets Canberra
Federal Ministers and many of the members returned to Canberra today, but Parliament House maintains its…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wild Gale. Pedestrians Thrown Down. Excitement on Harbour. Wellington (N.z.)
A wild northerly gale swept Wellington City last night and to-day. The wind at times was particularly fierce, and in some instances pedestrians in the city found difficulty in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Cyclone in Bight. Perth
A message from Esperance states that the Kybra, which arrived from Port Adelaide, encountered a hurricane, with mountainous seas, in the Bight, and was able to cover only 90 miles is 50 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Big Airliner Disappears Under Silent Desert Skies No Trace Search by Land and Air Eight Aboard Another 'Plane Wrecked by Storm San Diego, (California)
As completely as if it had vanished off the face of the earth, the great air liner, City of San Francisco, with eight persons on board, five passengers and a crew of three, has disappeared in the Arizona desert, leaving no…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Biggest Flood on the Hawkesbury Reminiscences of Sixty-seven Lives Lost and Property Destroyed
A clipping of a description of the '67 flood in the Hawkesbury district, published some years ago, has been handed to us by Mr. T. Jarvis, of Smith-street, Parramatta, whose father, John Jarvis, rescued Charles Eather, the sole survivor of a family of 12. He was taken from the branches of a tree…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →May Weather the Storm Second Reading Majority Expected
CANBERRA, Thursday. -- It is now considered certain that the Maritime Industries Bill will pass the second reading to-morrow by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eight Plunge to Doom Lightning Strikes Big Air Liner Storm's Grim Toll San Diego (Calif.)
A report from Albuquerque (New Mexico) reports that the great passenger air liner City of San Francisco, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hume Reservoir Landholders Inconvenienced by Flooding
An official impounding scheme in connection with the Hume reservoir was brought into operation this week. River land was extensively flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For Wife and Babe Heroic Kanaka Child Born in Storm at Sea Woman's Agony Rockhampton
AFTER a battle lasting seven days against storms and rough seas, a Kanaka, with his wife and newly- born babe, in a tiny sailing vessel,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Pictorial's" Racehorses Puzzle Attracts Thousands of Entries Fascinating Competition Produced Big Army of Tipsters Record Flood of Claims Kept Judges Busy Until Last Moment
An army of readers sent in correct solutions of the "Pictorial's" racehorses competition, all previous entries thus being eclipsed. Intense interest has marked this puzzle since its inception, the novelty of it firing the imagination of the public, and stimulating tens of thousands to an effort to win…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Will Cause Unemployment M's. P. Flooded With Protests Against Amusement Tax
A BIG axe hangs by a slender thread above the heads of 25,000 members of the Theatrical and Amusement Employees' Union. The Federal Government's iniquitous additional taxation proposals upon the public's amusement have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baby Cyclone in the Offing
THE State Meteorologist Mr. Mares started this afternoon that a change associated with the development of a moderate cyclone in the south-east…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Centre of the Storm
In a close finish, only the judge can tell. That is a racecourse maxim, not always regarded in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aorangi Due Saturday. Delayed by Heavy Rain
Heavy rain has delayed the "Union Coy's. Canadian Australasian" mail liner Aorangi at Auckland. She in to leave that port at 10 p.m. to-day and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Snow Falling on Mountains Rain: Gales, Too
Heavy snow, rain, cold, and wind squalls. All the unpleasant weather conditions that winter offers in turn are back with us-- and they came all at the same time…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Rain and Gale Sydney Freezes From Page 10
BUTTER[?]south-east winds…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rain and Hail Gales on South Coast 126 Pts. at Robertson
BAROMETER 80.07 INDICATOR Unsettled City Forecast.--Cloudy, cold, and unsettled, with more rain, heavy showers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooner Sinks [?] Wild Storm Captain "Out" -- Passenger Takes Charge
SUVA, Monday. -- With the captain lying unconscious on deck, the schooner shipping tremendous seas and likely to founder at any moment,…
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