On the Murray. Fighting the Floods. ADELAIDE
During the week-end the position on the Murray was regarded as fairly safe, but this morning a strong wind loosened about 75 sheets of galvanised iron in the levee bank at…
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Maunganui Battered in Cyclone
AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--Twisted and broken steampipe casings, wrecked ventilators, and shattered railings aboard the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Gales in Tasman. Maunganui's Rough Voyage. AUCKLAND
When the Union intercolonial liner Maunganul arrived to-day officers reported a rough passage from Sydney. Before the steamer cleared Sydney Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Storm Clouds May Threaten, But Country Week Golf Goes on
WATER HAZARD overhead? W. Johnston (Newcastle)., playing in the Country Week golf teams' championships at Bonnie Doon yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fighting the Flood! It was a big struggle; but Mark Seymour was made of the right stuff!
CROUCHED in the lee of the Bank, amid the flying sand and the long, coarse grasses that hissed in the gale, Mark…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Murray Floods. Adelaide
The flood position on the Murray has cased. Patrols, however, are still carefully watching the levees at Swanport, where the situation yesterday was critical. The river…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Murray Floods. The Dreary Waiting
At last, after keeping the settlers on both banks of the river more or less in a state of siege for many weeks, the floods on the lower Murray have now almost finished their evil…
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Swanport settlement. 104 acres, the smallest holding on the Lower Murray, was submerged to-day when flood-waters, banked up by a terrific…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fine and Warm Maybe Thunderstorm Wind May Rise Barometer. . . .30.15 Indicator . . .. Fine
City Forecast.--Fine and warm during the day, but becoming cloudy, with a growing tendency to a thundershower at night or to-morrow morning:…
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The cross bank at Swanport, three miles south of Murray Bridge, broke this morning as the result of a gale of 45 miles an hour. The bank separated the Swanport reclaimed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →State Parliament. Vic. Manufacturers Fatten on N.s.w. Sweated Goods Flood Market Millions, in Boots and Clothing, While Operatives Draw Dole Fraud and Swindling
HOW New South Wales is sweated by sweated labor goods from Victoria, and how some unscrupulous manufacturers are swindling the public was revealed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday by the Acting Premier in moving the second reading of the Factories and Shops'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cyclone Hits Boolaroo Dist
NEWCASTLE, Friday. IN a cyclone which struck the Eoolaroo district this evening a small…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CYCLONE. Damage at Boolaroo. Waterspout Off Coast. Newcastle
Damage running into thousands of pounds was done by a cyclone which, accompanied by lightning, thunder, hail, and heavy rain, cut a path about a quarter of a mile wide through…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In Cyclone Boolaroo's Wild Night Amazing Escapes Newcastle
Thrilling stories of hairbreadth escapes during the height of the storm at Boolaroo last night were told by residents to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Flooded Creek
"pink carnation" (Swan Vale).—One morning recently we rose from our beds to see snow covering the ground. It was also raining. The early service cars were about…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flooded Crops
JOHN CRUICKSHANK (Berrigan).—We are having very changeable weather up here and have had a very wet year. Most of the crops have been waterlogged and are becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flood Victim's Body Found. Corowa
The body of Charles Woodhouse, 30, who was drowned in the flooded Murray River six mil[?] below Corowa, on July 5, was discovered yesterday hanging on a snag 200 yards below the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →South Coast Flood Damage. Kiama
At a special meeting to-day the Jamberoo Council faced the fact that it would take [?] year's income to make good the flood damage to roads and culverts. It was decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Chinese Flood Sufferers
The Chinese Consul-General (Professor Kwei-chih) called a meeting of representatives of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese Nationalist party the Chinese Masonic…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Death Toll of Storm Over 1200 Fire Completes Belize Ruin Food Needed London
In the wake of the hurricane a fire has broken out in Belize and is spreading rapidly…
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