Wind Reached Gale Strength But Fine Week-end Forecast by Mr. Mares
Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. yesterday the average strength of the wind registered at the Weather Bureau was between moderate to fresh gale force. At…
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Town Threatened. Floods at Wentworth. WENTWORTH
A rise of seven inches in the rivers since Wednesday morning has made the flood position here more acute. Gangs have been busy to-day erecting levee banks on the east side…
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Now fallen is the old grey wall, That crstwhile hid from view-- Well, what it bid until to-day I neither cared nor knew…
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WHEN I look at the Commonwealth in its financial troubles, I am reminded of the sea, and of the gallant…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Egg Trade Anomalies More Eggs Come into New South Wales than we Export Other States Flood Sydney Market
That the time had come for some compulsory quota system of egg export to prevent other States taking advantage of the Sydney market at…
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JOAN WALKING (Yenda),—I live on a fruit farm, there miles from Yenda. Our firm contains [?] and we have apples, oranges, prunes, and grape vines growing. I…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →China Faced with Famine. Floods Destroy Rice Crops. Shanghai, July 31
In addition to the insurrection raging in the north, and Communism rampant in the interior districts of the breakaway south, China is now faced with famine throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Darling in Flood. People Take Refuge in Gaol. WENTWORTH
A rise of seven inches was registered in the river since 9 a.m. yesterday. Grange of unemployed and others worked throughout last night reinforcing the banks to cope with the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Senate Will Not Cut Govt.'s Supply Storm Blows Over Country Party Smiles Canberra
Leaders of the United Australia Party are spending the week-end in earnest consideration of the most graceful means of beating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At Mercy of Flooded River Timely Rescue on Murrumbidgee Menace of the Night Hay
Swept down the flooded Murrumbidgee, clinging desperately, almost hopelessly, to their overturned boat, John Jacka and…
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AUCKLAND, Sunday.--The most severe storm experienced in Auckland for many years thrashed the city and…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Three stormweary ships arrived in Melbourne to-day --two from coastal ports, and one from overseas. They were all behind schedule…
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Two young men, whose small boat had capsized in the flooded Murrumbidgee River, were nearly frozen when they were rescued by a resident after they had been clinging to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gale in New Zealand. Auckland (N.z.)
A fierce westerly gale, accompanied by vivid lightning, occurred during the week-end. A farmer's house, near Thames, was struck by lightning, which destroyed the chimney of the…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.--The Huddart, Parker steamer Ulimaroa arrived here to-day from Sydney four hours late, after an…
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The Ulimaroa experienced a very rough trip all the way from Sydney, and arrived four hours late. Nobody was hurt, but the starboard rails were bent by a sea at 9 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Violent Storm Ends England's Holiday Tanker Ashore London
The end of the bank holiday weekend coincided with a severe storm. Thunder broke over London and the south-eastern counties last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Glimpses of Country Life The Warrego in Flood-Time
RISING on the Buckland Tablelands in Southern Queensland, the Warrego flows a well-defined course for about 300 miles in a southerly direction. Past…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods. Position at Wentworth. Levee Banks Holding
At Wentworth yesterday, the Darling River, still held back by the fiercely running flood-waters of the Murray, rose to 26 feet 10½ inches, half-an-inch lower than the peak…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hospital Is Menaced by Floods Patients May Be Removed Rising Rivers
Already surrounded by flood waters, the Wentworth Hospital is threatened with inundation of further rises of the Murray and…
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