Storm and Fire Damage Preparing Liner
PRODIGIOUS is the work necessary to get a big ship ready for a voyage. This series was taken on board the…
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Wind Storm. Damage in Suburbs. Snow on Mountains
A severe windstorm which swept Sydney and the suburbs shortly after 9 o'clock last night caused some damage. Fences and trees were known over. A telegraph pole came down…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storm at Newcastle. Hinders Wireless Exhibition Newcastle
A severe magnetic storm, disorganising wireless communication with England, interfered with arrangements made for the opening of the first Newcastle Electrical and Radio…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In Storm Rigger's Thrilling Act Knife in Hand Feared That Staging Would Burn
When a large strand of rope caught fire on the 13th panel of the Harbor Bridge shortly after 10.30 o'clock last night, a rigger-foreman, Jack Harris, of Salisbury-road, Willoughby, was called upon to make a perilous climb…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Peril of Small Boats in Heavy Seas Thrills on Launch Between Heads Fishermen Caught In Howling Gale Off Newcastle
A PERILOUS time in heavy seas was experienced by the occupants of several fishing boats off Newcastle and two men in a launch which had broken down between Sydney Heads to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →England Seething: Our Camp Confident Storm Arose When Pilot Left Selectors' Meeting Was Longest for Years Wyatt "Sound: Quiet" Is Excuse London
TO say one is surprised at the exclusion of Chapman from England's Test team is putting it very mildly, and it is difficult to understand the mysterious workings of the selection committee…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unroofed Houses in Adelaide Torrens in Flood Adelaide
Accompanying a gale which struck Adelaide last night, heavy rain fell in the hills districts and caused exceptional floods in the Torrens. An…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Heavy Rain Soaks Melb. Playing Areas Melbourne
Heavy rain fell in Melbourne during the night and more is threatening. The downpour heavily soaked the city's playing grounds. public School…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Fury Cyclone Hits Naples Sicilian Shambles Naples
Terror again descended on the city to-day, when a violent cyclone killed 4 and injured 70. The disturbance was especially…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Beat Storms Graceful, Yet Hardy Shamrock V. Prepares New London
Lost from her convoy for days at a time on the storm-tossed Atlantic, beating against adverse winds, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After the Gale. Weather Improves. Mild by Week-end. Yesterday's Mishaps
Conditions yesterday have led to the conclusion that Wednesday night, when the wind reached a velocity of 68 miles an hour at Sydney, and snow fell it many places,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →3000 Drowned in Flood Many Corpses Washed Out to Sea PEKING
Three thousand are believed to have been drowned in a flood in Sui-chungh-tien city. SIX miles of the Peking-Mukden…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Into Storm? Rain Retards R100 Nearing Home London
Despite heavy rain, the British airship, R100, was making good progress on her return flight from Canada, and at 3 p.m., Greenwich…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Disaster. Devastation at Naples. Four Dead; 70 Injured. London, Aug. 14
Disaster again befel Naples when a violent cyclone struck the city, killing four persons and injuring 70. The full force was felt in the market place of Pogglo Reale, where the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pounded by Gale Many Buried When Wall Collapsed on Them NAPLES
Naples was struck by a violent cyclone early this morning, and four were killed and [?]injured. Many people [?]altering against a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gee! Sir Thomas You Started It! "Henley on the Aussies" Raises Storm
Most of the replies to Sir Thomas Henley's remarks on Australian civil servants, on his return yesterday from Honolulu, had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queen's-square Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Stephen nnd juries.) a Motorist Sued. Farr v Gale
James Percy Farr, photographer, of Bexley, tought to recover from Charles A. Gale, inspector of schools, of Eastwood, £1200 as damages for injuries received through the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Liner Tahiti Disabled Near Rarotonga: Cyclone Feared May Abandon Ship To-night Water Gaining Fast, Says Radio Two Steamers Rushing to Assist
CARRYING 128 passengers, the mail Steamer Tahiti lost her starboard propeller and portion of the tail shaft at 4 a.m. to-day, and is disabled about 400 miles from Raratonga, making a great deal of water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prepared for the Flood
W. E.B. (Wauchape).—[?] flood came at the and of june Dad and I were prepared for it because we put up everything we could out of reach of the water…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Home Again R100 Ends Great Flight Gale Beaten Twice Over Atlantic London
The R100 sighted Cardington at 10.40 to-day, made fast her mooring ropes at 11.30. and moored at 12.2…
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