Caught By The Flood
A mailman was drowned on the Gundagai-Brungle Road; A sheep drover in the…
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Town Had Wild Night in Cyclone Brisbane
Innisfail district had its wildest night for years last night, when furious rain squalls lashed the town and huge seas pounded the coast. A cyclone over the Coral Sea, off…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Daily Feature Strips and Stories Jim Gale All- Australian Story Strip
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Danger Passing. Rail Services Still Held Up. More Rain Likely
Reports received yesterday showed that northern and south-western inland rivers were gradually falling, and that there was slight risk of further…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Must Pay When Stranded Train Passengers In Floods IVANHOE
Some of the railway passengers stranded at Ivanhoe since Saturday on account of washaways on the railway, are without money for expenses,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Cause Rail Hold-up
Rail services in some parts of the State were still disorganised yesterday by floods and wash-aways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Beans Flood Sydney Market
The largest supply of beans for over three years flooded the Sydney market yesterday. Prices for choice beans dropped 3 a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Daily Feature Strips and Stories Jim Gale All-Australian Story Strip By Ron Vivian
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Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ivanhoe's Plight. Flooded for 14 DAYS. Downpour Yesterday
Two new storms, in which more than two inches of rain fell, have accentuated the plight of the town of Ivanhoe, in the far west, which has been…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Record Rains in Far West Flood Falls Again In South
Record rains are falling in the already flooded towns of the far west, far south-west and southern Riverina districts of the State. In the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. to-day, 301 points fell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Believed Drowned Flood Deluges In N. Queensland BRISBANE
A man who was seen clinging to an upturned boat in the flooded Johnstone River at Innisfail, is believed to have been drowned and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Flood, Now Food, 'Is Rail Refugees' Moan
Railway passengers for Sydney, stranded at Ivanhoe since Saturday's washaway, complain that they are being charged higher prices for train meals. This, they have been informed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blown Ashore by Cyclone Deluge Continues In Far North CAIRNS
A dramatic story of the voyage down Cape York Peninsula while two distinct cyclones raged along the coast was related by passengers on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hit by Cars in Heavy Rain
A man and a woman were knocked down by cars during a heavy downpour last night. Percy Edward Hall, 65, of Livingstone…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vessels Run Late in Gale
Driving straight into a southerly gale, which is lashing the coast around Sydney, the steamer Gwydir, with nearly 50 passengers aboard…
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Randwick Track Trials in Gale Gold Rod Impresses at Half-mile Fortune And Avant Tout In Speedy Gallops Caesar's Good Form
Values of track times at Randwick to-day were difficult to assess because of the howling gale and the difference in the choice of galloping ground on the course proper…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →North Queensland Floods. Brisbane
Further torrential rains, ranging up to nine inches have fallen in north Queensland, and flooding continues. Cairns is still isolated from the rest of the State owing to floods…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Fears. Threat to Yenda. "Dry" Watercourse Now Lake
There is imminent danger of the inundation of the south-western town of Yenda and the surrounding fruitgrowing district in a flood as…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Floods Isolate Towns Ivanhoe's Fear of Fresh Food Shortage Rail Washaway Repairs May Take Week
Floods of torrential rains have swept through homes, isolated towns, and dislocated railways in the West Riverina and South West of New South Wales…
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