Rain in Queensland. Drought Areas Benefit. Floods at Cloncurry. Brisbane
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 13
Heavy rains fell in north-western parts of the State yesterday, causing floods in the Cloncurry district. Over five inches fell at Mt. Isa, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Danger of Flooding. Newcastle Mines. Newcastle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 14
Anxious eyes are watching the attempts made by mines on the Newcastle field to fight against the danger of flooding with their improvised safety staffs…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Grave Fears of Mine Floods Newcastle
The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5
POLICE guards have been stationed at the whole of the lower coalfields collieries. Any moves to be made by the men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lonely Voyages Storms and Sharks
The Sun · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 7
Across the stormy Atlantic in an 18 footer sailing boat is a hair-raising experience, but it has been done more than once…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flooding Danger. Position at Wallsend. Newcastle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 17
So far, no satisfactory arrangements have been reached for the provision of safety staffs now lacking at the easily flooded Wallsend mines as the result of mass picketing…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fishing Schooner Drifts on Brink of Disaster For 48 Days Thirty Miles From Port She Is Battered 2600 MILES Grew Faces Death in Terrible Atlantic Gales: Glass of Water a Day Record of Terror, Suffering, Bravery London
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 January 1930 · page 4
Thirty miles from her destination -- St. Johns, Newfoundland -- the fishing schooner, Neptune, a new vessel, ran into continuous gales, and the voyage ended yesterday, 48 days later, at Tobermory,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclone in North Cairns
Evening News · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 5
A cyclone warning issued at 9 p.m yesterday stated "a cyclone of moderate intensity was centred at 8 p.m. to the north of Walls Island, and is moving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone Season N. Queensland Catching It Cairns
The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 15
"A cyclone centred at 9 a.m. northeast from Cooktown is small, but intense, and apparently is moving due west."…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Five Die Night of Terror Storm Fury
The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 10
A vivid story of a night of terror in a 120-miles-an-hour cyclone, experienced by a handful of white people on one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storm-lashed British Steamer in Peril Race to Rescue Vancouver
The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 1
Several steamers are racing to the aid of the storm-battered British freighter North Pacific (3900 tons) which is in peril…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Near Rail Disaster Through Drift Sand Engine Off the Line in 40-mile Gale
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Running into drift sand blown across the rails by a 40-miles-an-hour gale, the engine of a mixed passenger train left…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Splendid Week-end for Surfing Mr. Mares Expects Cool Change and Storm
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 5
The time the mercury had climbed to its highest on Saturday--100 degrees at half-past 2--all, or nearly all, were in the water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saturday's First Nights "The Enemy" Powerful Drama Emotional Storm at the Palace
The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 7
AS the world is placed at the present time, on the eve of the Nation's greatest--and accordingly most sincere--attempt to abolish war by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Filling with Water S.O.S. Calls from Storm battered Ship VANCOUVER
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4
THE British freihgter North Pacific has sent out wireless signals of distress 320 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Brews Why S.A. Went in Again Cheap Wickets Richardson's Lone Hand Brisbane
The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 11
With the second ball of the [?]t over at the Exhibition Ground to-day, in the Queensland v. S.A. Shield match, Higgins, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Marts—money and Mines Briseis Tin Disastrous Flood Assets Destroyed
Evening News · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4
The accounts of the Brisels Tin and Mining Co., Ltd., are more belated than usual. There a working profit for 1978 of £3307, and £10,807 was brought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland Cyclone. Brisbane
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 12
Special observations made by the Weather Bureau at 8 p.m. showed that a cyclone was centred north from Cooktown. It had only a slight intensity, and apparently was moving…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Losing Force Queensland Cyclone Cairns
The Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 12
Though the railway line was six inches under water at Gordonvale, at 6 a.m. today, it is now clear, and all railway services are running to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Night of Terror. in Fiji Cyclone. Woman Relates Experience
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 11
Caught in the full fury of the cyclone which swept Vanua Levu, in the Fiji Islands, recently, Mrs. Trevor Jones spent a night of terror. She lost everything she possessed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stock Exchange Boom That Burst Crew's Ordeal Steamer Wreck in Fijian Cyclone Auckland, [?]
Evening News · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 9
THE ordeal of Captain [?] his 12-years-old son [?] engineer, and two sailors fo[?] wreck of the Fijian Gover[?]…
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