Storm Damage in Victoria Trail Left Over Wide Area MELBOURNE
ORIGINATING from Central Australia a severe monsoonal storm broke over northern districts at 2 p.m. yesterday and [?] over a large area…
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Air Search for Missing Prospectors Proves Plank Air Force 'Planes Out of Action Two in Storm
FLlGHT-LIEUT. Eaton, who with Flying-Officer Gerrand, is making an air search for the missing prospectors…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Menzies Tells His Own Story of Epic Flight Storm-tossed Flew "Blind" for Several Hours Forced Down to Waves Landed in Mud, Feeling Like Visitor From Mars
Thrashed by a savage wind that smote the 'plane with heavy blows, tossed by a storm and driven down by tumbling avalanches of cloud till the crests of wind-whipped grey waves glimmered a few feet from him, like the whites of great staring eyes--Such was the experience of Mr. Guy Menzies, the daring young aviator whose solo flight to New…
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On Christmas Day tho death occurred suddenly of Mr. Thomas Flood, at the residence of his sister, Mrs. M. Byrnes, Wallorawang. The deceased attended Holy…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Not Really Hot, But Very Moist Cool Change Coming After Thunderstorms
HOT perspiring faces, and clammy brows yesterday were evidence of the 90 per cent, humidity in the air…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gale Rages on the Coast Swift Descent on Sydney 50 M.p.h. Bursts
A fifty-mile-an-hour gale swept along the coast from Jervis Bay yesterday afternoon, and struck Sydney with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Saved by Fishermen After Hour in Water Skiff Overturned in Fierce Gale Havoc in Harbor
Two men and a boy and [?] girl were washed three miles out of Botany Bay when their sailing skiff capsized in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Skiff Overturned in Sweeping Storm Men & Girl Hurled Into Water Fishermen's Fine Rescue in Botany Bay
Three young man and a girl were thrown into the sea yesterday when the terrific gale upturned their sailing skiff in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wheat and Cereal-grower Ripe Crops Damaged by Unfavorable Harvest Weather Recurring Rain and Wind-Storms Battered Standing Wheat in Many Districts, Causing Losses from Lodging, Bleaching and Reduced Bushel Weight
The month of December was marked by unfavorable harvest weather almost generally throughout the wheat districts of the State, and reports furnished to the Department of Agriculture by district agricultural instructors at the end of the month indicated that damage to the ripe grain was considerable. In a number of important districts an unusually large proportion of the grain will not be up to f.a.q. standard, it is stated. Lodging, shelling, bleaching, and reduction in the bushel weight are chiefly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Heavy Rain" Vic. Parr Races Off Mares Intrigued
"Oh, it ain't goin' to rain no more!" In fancy one could hear the secretary of the Victoria Park…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Huge Hailstones in Country Storm
DEEPWATER, Friday.--Crops were destroyed, roofs torn off, and windows were smashed when a storm broke at Deepwater to-night, a little after 8…
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THE heaviest [?] remembered in the district came them the [?] might alter sultry weather…
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Valuable cows were stuck by lightning and Killed in the Auckland district. when a [?] electrical storm passed over the country Great damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowning Accidents Three Fishermen Lost in a Terrific Gale
A number of drowning accidents occurred in different parts of the State during the past few days, the most appalling being in wallis Lake, near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Toowoomba Flood Dry Spell on Downs Terminated TOOWOOMBA
HEAVY rain last night which was [?] severe thunderstorm at 4 [?] to-day brought to an end the lang spell of dry weather. The…
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IN the welter of hit mathematical calculations concerning the supposed dimensions of the Ark. "D. C.," in a recent issue of the "News." has overlooked my claiming only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dorrigo's Storms Dorrigo
Seven thunderstorms broke over Dorrigo on Thursday and Friday. One storm produced two inches in 40 minutes, over four inches being…
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The thing most to be desired in these trying times is the power to face adverse circumstances with pulses beating quietly and with a heart that keeps its…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Cyclone Rips Through Q'land Towns Roofs Blown Off; Hail Like Hen's Eggs
BRISBANE, Saturday.--Hail as big as hens' eggs shattered dozens of windows last night at Linville, on the Brisbane-Valley line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gale Batters Harbor Craft Many Rescues: Racing Eight's Ordeal
Numerous harbor craft yesterday came to grief in the gale A LAUNCH was swamped near Rose Bay, and ten men were…
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