Bible and Spade. The Flood Story
To-day it is difficult to understand the excitement caused among our grandparents when George Smith in 1871 deciphered the beginning of a cuneiform story of the Flood…
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The Weather. Thunderstorm Expected
The Acting State Meteorologist (Mr. Banfield) said last night that fine and warm weather was likely to prevail in Sydney to-day, but he expected a…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Thunderstorms Likely During Week-end
"Unsettled, mild and sultry, with rain and thunderstorms developing," is the forecast for the week-end issued to-day by the Acting-State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fierce Storm Forces Airliner To Land In Mud
Blinding rain in a fierce thunderstorm forced down the Gannct airliner flying from Broken Hill to Sydney, 16 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Silver Standard Will Win It," Says Frank Manolive and Floodtide the Mokes Who Are at Home in the Mud the Trump Rumors Denied Melbourne
LEADEN Melbourne skies were only "outwept" to-day by the tears of the multitude of racegoers who had made up their minds to visit Caulfield and witness one of the most open Cup races in the long history of that event. Hopes were drowned when Friday's torrential…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Fear in Melbourne Yarra Breaks Banks in Suburbs Deluge Of Water Sweeps Down From Source Rowing-boat Rescues Melbourne
FLOODING threatens Melbourne as a vast volume of water swirls down the Yarra River, following seven and a half inches of rain near its source. The river is rising at the rate of one foot an hour,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Tide Proves a Real Mudlark Marvellous Mile at Mentone Cup Roughie, The Wizard, Whizzed Along In Great Style Silver Standard Does Nice Seven Melbourne
MOST of the Cup candidates were at the various tracks this morning, and several of them were sent against the watch in the heavy ground. AT Flemington the exceedingly fit STEVENAGE ran a real…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Flood Warnings. Melbourne
State-wide rain throughout the week has completely changed the seasonal outlook in every country district. The whole of Victoria has received the best spring drenching for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Man Missing in Flood Waters
WAU (N.G.), Sunday.--When a flying- fox tackle broke at Bulwa, near Bulolo, three dredge men were thrown into a flood-swollen stream…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Rain Causes Floods in Victoria
Flooding has occurred in many parts of Victoria, where rivers are swollen as a result of the heavy rains. These picturegrams, received yesterday from Melbourne, show, left: A resident of Nar-nar-goon, Gippsland, carrying a member of his family from their flood-bound home. Right: Flood waters swirling do wn the Yarra River over Dight's Falles, which have been submerged. The Yarra, which is in flood from Warburton to Melbourne, is overrunning its banks in some suburbs…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wall of Water. Heavy Loss. Flooding in Victoria. Township Menaced. MELBOURNE
Continuous rains since Friday have caused serious flooding in central and eastern Victoria. A gigantic wall of water is approaching Koo-Wee-Rup,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Good Rains. More Expected in South. Local Floodings Possible
Ruin which fell abundantly over most of the State at the week-end continued yesterday in many parts. In practically all wheat growing centres the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Floodtide Is Cup Choice Likes a Muddy Course Weather Changes Prospects For Caulfield MELBOURNE
IF the Caulfield Cup is run to-morrow, and there is some hope now that it will, all previous ideas will have to be revised, and the "mudlarks" and lightweights considered…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Boat-rescues in Floods
Yesterday's floods around Melbourne.--Top: A row-boat, complete with borrowed tail-light and numberplate, rescuing occupants of houses in Lilydale, who were isolated by floodwaters. Above: Inundated countryside just outside Melbourne. showing the extent of the flood's spread…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods to Windows at Peak Melbourne
MANY families left their homes in the Cardinia district of Gippsland this afternoon when muddy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Threat To Melb. MELBOURNE
WITH the continuance of heavy rain near the source of the Yarra. where over seven inches have already fallen, Melbourne is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trials for Cup Heavy Track Upsets S. Standard Manolive, Flood Tide Go Well Melbourne
THERE are some fears that if the Caulfield Cup is run on a very heavy or waterlogged course, Silver Standard may not…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Big Floods in Victoria
A BOAT WAS USED yesterday in Lilydale, 24 miles from Melbourne, to carry volunteer aid from shop to shop to people marooned by flood water. This, the main street of the town, was three feet under water. (Picturegram.)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alarming Rise of Flood Melbourne
ONE of the worst floods in the history of the nearer Gippsland and Yarra Valley areas is feared after four days of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mudlarks Firm Wotan Gets Attention Flood Tide, Manolive May Start Second Fancies For Cup Talking, Balkan Prince Ease in Market Melbourne
WITH the continuance of bad weather, Flood Tide and Manolive continue to firm for the Caulfield Cup. E. Allen, a leading Melbourne bookmaker, considers…
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