Torrential Rain in the Inland Leper Station Flooded Darwin
The leper station at Channel island reports torrential rain, eight inches having fallen in two days. A large gang of workmen is now…
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Heavy Rain in Cent. Aust. Adelaide
A phenomenal downpour of more than five inches of rain has laid hundreds of miles of country under water round Marree, in the north-west…
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IN Germany a distinguished soldier of 59, a widower in vigorous mental and bodily health, marries a tall,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Overwhelms Rail Camp Toll of Disaster May Be 35 Wall Of Water Sweeps Valley While Men Are Asleep AUCKLAND
An appalling flood disaster has occurred near the township of Kopuawhara, 20 miles north of Wairoa, where a railway camp was washed away following a cloudburst…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Storm In A Tea Cup Mr. Boniface
MR. BONIFACE had a secret weakness for fortune tellers and tea cup readers. In this he…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Deluge Of Death In New Zealand Rail Camp Twenty-two Believed To Be Drowned Tragedy Came Upon Sleeping Men With Startling Suddenness AUCKLAND
In a flood-water deluge of death which ripped up bridges, tossed huge trees about like matches and swept everything before it, 22 public works employees who were asleep in their camp near Wairoa are believed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grim Toll of Death Flood Twenty-Two Believed To Have Drowned As They Slept In N.Z. Works Camp AUCKLAND
Caught when a terrific deluge of storm-water swept into a public works camp at Wairoa, near Napier, while they slept early this morning,…
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Severe flooding has occurred in North Queensland, as a result of torrential rains. The Burdekin River bridge, a vital link in the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop-press Tasman Cyclone
The Weather Bureau, in a special ocean forecast this afternoon, stated that the cyclonic disturbance in the N.W. Tasman would probably move…
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In a 50-mile-an-hour gate at Queenstown, last night, the verandah of one house was blown down. An awning in front of several shops was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deluge in South Australia. Floods and Washaways. Pastures Benefit. Adelaide
Monsoonal weather over most of South Australia in the week-end yielded some of the best rains experienced for many years. In the pastoral areas in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Afrikaans' Anthem Raises New Storm
CAPETOWN, Sunday. -- A storm has arisen over the playing of the Afrikaans' anthem, "The Voice of South Africa," at the opening of Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Workmen Drowned in Sleep 21 Are Swept To Death In N.Z. Deluge Tragic Scenes Wellington (N.z.)
EIGHTEEN bodies have been recovered and a search was carried on throughout the day for three others following a disastrous deluge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twenty-one Drowned. Floods Sweep Camp Away. "Wall of Water." Auckland (N.z.)
It is now reveaied that 20 men and one young woman were swept to their deaths when a huge wall of floodwaters tore through the Kopuawhara…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Heroism in Flood Horror Man with Gong Died Warning Others Two Perished In Vain Bid To Save Woman Fate's Cruel Tricks Auckland
Acts of rare heroism stand out in the story of Saturday's rail camp flooding horror in which 20 men and a woman lost their lives. Eighteen bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →32 Passengers Marooned Train Held Up By Inland Floods ADELAIDE
Thirty-two train passengers are marooned at Edwards Creek. The express, which left Marree for Alice Springs, on Friday, is held up there…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rain Forecast Flooding Likely: Warnings Issued Ships Shelter From Cyclone
WARNING of approaching floods and cyclones was issued by the Acting Divisional…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bill for Float Raises Storm
LEICHHARDT aldermen were angry last night when they got a bill from the organising secretary of the Celebrations for £150 for their float. The Mayor (Alderman Stuart) said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone Active. Thick Weather on Coast. Conditions Expected to be Worse To-day
The dismal weather experienced at Sydney yesterday was due to the influence of a cyclone centred several hundred miles north of Sydney, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Heroism Shown in N.Z. DELUGE Man Gave Life To Warn Others Of Danger "Give It a Go" Auckland
HOW he had seen 11 men, who had sought refuge on a 4½-tons truck, die in the raging flood which swept 20 men and a woman to death at the…
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