Storm-lashed for 8000 Miles
Battered by storms for the whole of her voyage, of 8000 miles from Canada, and with rapidly diminishing bunkers, the steamer Anglo-Peruvian (Captain…
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Victims Buried in One Grave Simple Service In Heavy Rain On Mountainside J. K. Westray May Also Be Buried in Gorge Beaudesert
TWELVE yards from the wrecked Stinson airliner, where it lies 3000 feet up the slope of Lamington Plateau, four of the crash victims were buried in one grave at 1.30 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death of Miss A. M. Flood
Miss Alice Mary Food (68), of Phillip-street, Parramatta, sister of Mr. Harold Flood, died in hospital on Friday. Deceased was daughter of the late…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heavy Rain in City. Catchment Areas Still Dry
Sydney experienced another showery day yesterday, and at times there were torrential but short-lived downpours. Up to 8 o'clock last night, 124 points had…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Flooding Over Goldfields Boy Drowned In Deluge PERTH
When rain deluged the goldfields -- 144 points being recorded in half an hour at Kalgoorlie -- damage running into thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nazi Press Storms At N. Y. Mayor BERLIN
THE Nazi Press is fuming with rage at the Mayor of New York (Mr. La Guardia). He suggested that New York…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Drowned in Storm Two Girls in Peril
KALGOORLIE.--Friday. -- A boy was drowned and two girls narrowly escaped, in a cloudburst yesterday. In half an hour 144 points of rain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cyclists' Cyclone Maxwell and Swinbourne Defy Cracker Brigade
IT'LL be a case of bring out your gas masks, bomb proof shelters and seven-inch guns at the annual meeting of the Cyclists' Union shortly. LAST year the meeting was bedl. un…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Blast of Winter in the Air Southerly Upsets Harbor Craft Heavy Rain
A MODERATE gale which swept down on Sydney in the form of a southerly "buster" late on Saturday afternoon brought about wintry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ship's Baptism in Great Gale Essex Reaches Sydney
In the worst gale for 50 years, the Federal S.S. Co.'s new cargo vessel Essex, which arrived in Sydney yesterday on her maiden voyage, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Hours in Water in Gale Men Cling to Upset Boat: Hails Unheard
THREE young men spent three hours in the galeswept harbor on Saturday before being rescued. Their 12ft. skiff had capsized off Kirribilli Point. They were:--…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Die, 30 Hurt in Gale Giant Liner's Battle In Atlantic NAPLES
Two members of the crew were killed and 30 injured while the Italian 51,000- ton liner Rex was battling through a gale on her way…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Orara River Damaged by Flood. Grafton
At a meeting of Nymboida Shire Council the engineer reported, that Ramornie bridge, across the Orara River, should be opened for traffic about the end of May if normal weather…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Storm
Bleck is the night and still the air; No breath of wind stirs anywhere, No stars shine in the western sky, For darkly there the storm-clouds lie…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Four Die, 64 Hurt on Liner in Gale Rome
CROSSING the Atlantic from New York, the giant Italian liner, Rex, encountered the worst storm in her history…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Killed in Liner. Rex in Heavy Gale. NAPLES, March 8
It is repoited that two persons were killed as a result of severe falls and buffetings which they received on the Italian liner Rex (51,062 tons), during a severe gale on the passage…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Italian Liner in Atlantic Gale Two Persons Killed; 30 Injured London
ITALY'S greatest liner, the 51,000-ton Rex, suffered severely on its last crossing of the Atlantic, as it struck a hurricane head-on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drifting Upside Down Tin-Dredge Capsized In Storm LONDON
The Kantoeng, the biggest tin-dredge in the world, which was being towed from Holland to the East Indies, but which capsized in a storm…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Autumn Rains. Eight Inches at Ballina. Town Flooded; Crops Damaged
During the whole of Sunday night and the early hours of yesterday morning rain fell in torrents at the north coast town of Ballina, the total fall…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. John Flood
Many mourners followed the cortege of Mr. John Flood, of Banks-town, to the Rookwood Crematorium yesterday. Mr. Flood, who was aged…
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