Storm Upsets Gosford Phones GOSFORD
Telephones were thrown into disorder temporarily, and the electric light system in the town failed for 20 minutes during a severe but brief…
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Rain Squalls in Sydney. Country Storms. Cold Change Passing
During Saturday a wave of unsettled weather swept across the eastern half of New South Wales, causing widespread storms and paving…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Midnight Storm in Forest Camp Wrecked By Falling Trees GRAFTON
A forestry camp was wrecked and men's lives endangered by falling trees when a severe windstorm struck Star Creek, in the Coramba district,…
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CAIRO, Monday. -- It is feared that the approaching floods on the River Nile may ruin thousands of cotton plantations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storms on Way. Changeable Weather
To-day is expected to be changeable with the prospect of rain, thunder, and perhaps hail, followed by another pronounced cold change…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The '90 Flood at Bourke
In this article the writer tells of the great flood at Bourke, in 1890, when the heroic efforts put forth to save the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gale in Tasmania Shipping Held Up
Because of a Cyclonic gale, which raged in Northern Tasmania in the last two days, the Union motorship Kahika, and the steamer Kowhai have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man in Canoe Caught in Gale
Swept from Brighton-le-Sands across Botany Bay by a gale today, George King, 50, battled desperately in a small canot for three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some Isolated Storms. Sydney's Warm Day. Cool Change Coming
Although there were isolated storms in the southern highlands and on the North Coast, the expected stormy conditions did not arise yesterday, because…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Stopped Flood with Their Bodies
The heroic action of two peasants, who stopped a breach in a dyke with their bodies, and remained in cold water all night, saved the fields and crops of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gale and Ferrier Beat Par
JIM FERRIER and R. G. Gale, local champion, returned rounds of 71, one under par, at La Perouse yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Swept Away in Canoe by Gale
Caught by the gale yesterday afternoon, George King, 50, was swept in his small canoe from Brighton-le-Sands across Botany Bay to La Perouse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Fires in Gale Blaze In Roof Of Golf Clubhouse
During the height of a 50-miles-an-hour gale in Sydney to-day, three fires broke out. St. Stephen's Parish Hall, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Violence of Gale Roofs Fly Hoarding On Horse MELBOURNE
Damages to crops, orchards, and buildings, dust that blocked traffic on roads, serious delays to shipping,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fishing Fleet in Storm. One Vessel Sinks; Crew Saved. MELBOURNE
The Port Albert shark-fishing fleet was caught in a sudden storm to-day. It reached port with difficulty after one ship had been sunk, and its crew…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Gale Holds Up Goods Train MELBOURNE
With a head wind blowing at 50 miles an hour yesterday, a goods train engine ran out of water on a lonely section…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hamurah's Skull Fractured Scared By Gale, Mare Crashes Into Fence
Frightened by the gale yesterday at Richmond, Hamurah, one of the best mares to race in Sydney in recent years, crashed into a paddock fence and fractured her skull…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →50 m.p.h. Gale Hits City, Boys In Skiff Swamped
SYDNEY was struck yesterday by a 55-mile-an-hour westerly gale. The boisterous conditions would continue over the weekend, said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Damage by Storm Repair Work In Victoria MELBOURNE
Thousands of men all over Victoria to-day have been working since daylight repairing the damage done by yesterday's vicious gales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Order for Arrest. Henlein Sought. Tenseness at Eger. Sudeten Storm Troopers. LONDON, Sept 16
The State Attorney at Eger has issued a warrant for the arrest of Herr Henlein, the Sudeten German leader, arising out of the…
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