Chinese Lugger Lost in Cyclone Darwin
The lugger Dimple, owned by Ah Cheong capsized during a cyclone near Melville Island to-day. The crew, consisting of Jimmie Ah Hee and Ah…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods & storms, 1930
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Fierce Storms. in South Africa. Capetown, Dec. 30
Furious storms lashed the coast during the week-end. The Sutton Hall, carrying 100 live cattle, left yesterday, and is now returning with the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Across Bass Strait Oimara Wins Gruelling Yacht Race in Gale
After 22 years the ocean race for yachts across Bass Strait was revived on Friday. After a gruelling contest lasting 42 hours, in a howling gale, the Victorian yacht,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Grim Find in Snow Late Evan Hayes Lost in Kosciusko Storm Year-oleftragedy
THE body of Evan Hayes, who with Laurie Seamans, perished in a snowstorm on Mount Kosciusko in August, 1928, has been found…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Footwear Imports. United States Flooded by Czechoslovakia. Fremantle
Imports into the United States of Czechoslovakian shoes and boots during the past year have checked American production, according to Mr. C. F. Nielsen, managing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Worst Floods for Forty Years in Wales-scenes in the Affected Areas
THE HEIGHT OF THE WATER IN THE MAIN STREET OF PERTH. A MOTORIST IN DIFFICULTIES. HOUSES SURROUNDED BY WATER…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wasted Miles Storm Delays Traveller
A steady storm that blew for six days, between San Francisco and Honolulu, placed a further 2500 miles travel on the holiday trip of Miss M…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ADRIFT 3 Men in Boat Mercy of Gale Modern Castaways Brisbane
BUFFETED by a severe storm in Moreton Bay, with their boat leaking badly and with the sail torn by the terrific wind,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Surrounded by Hills Forced Landing for "Southern Sky" Caught in Storm
Bad luck befell the National Airways mail 'plane, Southern Sky, on her initial flight from Brisbane to Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Demented Mother Beheads Pretty Child and Then Kills Herself in Storm Three Men in Boat Washed Ashore Thrilling Experiences Brisbane
Buffeted by a severe storm in Moreton Bay, their boat leaking badly, and with sail torn by terrific wind, three young men…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ships in Hurricane. Cabins Flooded. CAPETOWN, Dec. 31
The Baron Dalmeny a motor ship from the Gulf of Mexico has arrived here Her log states that she was 37 days on the voyage The ship met hurricane seas 40 feet high. On…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storms at Hughenden
"Glaxo," Hughenden (Q.): It is terribly hot up here, and one nearly dies in the day-time. There have been several storms up here lately. We have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Damage in Gale London
During a gale to-day, which reached a velocity of 91 m.p.h. at Liverpool, 80 at Glasgow, and 71 m.p.h. at Southport, a pinnacle was blown from the west front…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Drought Breaks As the Old Year Passes Heavy Rain In Central and Eastern States Australia's Christmas Gift
The dawn of Christmas Day, 1929, was accompanied in scattered parts of eastern Australia by light rain, forerunner of a steady downpour, and in some instances torrential falls, over widespread areas of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adrift in Tiny Boat Lasted by Storm Youths Narrow Escape Brisbane
A DANGEROUS hole in the bottom of their tiny open boat, tossed like a cork on the crest of immense waves, and lashed by a gale that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heat Hit 95.7, Humidity 85, and Southerly 43 M.P.H. Evening Blast! Gale Ended Cycle of Changes Cool To-day!
Bang went doors, and papers and dead leaves whirled down Market Street! It was a 39-mile-an-hour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain on Test Eve But Australians Full of Confidence LONDON
Heavy rain is falling at Ilkley, and the outlook for the third Test match to-morrow is unpromising…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unrehearsed Act Gale Creates Panic in Show Tent Newcastle
When the southerly gale struck Ero[?] Brothers' menagerie tent and brought it down, at Swausen during the perform once last, night, the terrified screams of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Desperate Plight Three Men Adrift in a Terrific Storm
Buffeted by a sever storm in Moreton Bay, their boat leaking badly, and with sall torn by terrific wind, three young men, Ernest and john Gray and William…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storms Have No Terrors for Them Yachtsmen Again to Tackle Bass Strait
MELBOURNE, Friday.--In no way daunted by the terrific battering their crafts received in the recent ocean yacht race across Bass Strait,…
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