Heavy rain feil again last night, and up to an early hour this morning 92 points being registered. The whole of the surrounding country is flooded. An immense ...
Article : 196 wordsRainfall in Bendigo from 1st January, 1908, to 31st August, 1908—1011 points. Rainfall in Bendigo from 1st January, 1909, to date—2025 points. ...
Article : 384 wordsFew books are more interesting than a good biography Men like to know about their fellow men. When a man has set his mark on his district or nation, his life, ...
Article : 2,293 wordsMr. K. Canning, a resident of Albert Park, who was a passenger on the night train between Ballarat and Maryborough last night, sustained injuries to his arm ...
Article : 634 wordsThe Campaspe is creeping up slowly. There is no sign of a rush, and the big flood has not yet come down. The water has reached High-street, and is now flowing ...
Article : 62 wordsThe river Campaspe continued rising at the rate of 2ft. per hour until 3 o'clock this morning, when the water began to steady up, and rose steadily until midday ...
Article : 287 wordsConsequent on information reaching Bendigo that residents of Bridgewater were in a serious position, a special train was despatched from Bendigo with a boat. ...
Article : 68 wordsNewbridge is about 10 miles south of Bridgewater, and peopled by about 200. It came within the bounds of the flood waters, and the whole place was swamped ...
Article : 224 wordsMr. G. S. Read, engineer of the Shire of Marong, had a narrow escape from death while on a tour of inspection yesterday. Mr. Read had journeyed to ...
Article : 122 wordsBullock Crock, at Marong, is now at its ordinary level, after having inundated all lands on both sides for miles. Mrs. Stoke.s lost five head of cattle, and fencing around ...
Article : 85 wordsAt Huntly the heavy flood waters which flewed over the levee banks on the east side of the Bendigo Creek at the Bullocky Bridge ran on to Mr. C. Gooding's land, ...
Article : 180 wordsThe district around has suffered consider ably from the devastatirg flood waters of the Loddon, and although the situation in a domestic sense is not as acute as further ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Loddon waters rushed over the weir yesterday several feet deep, and a veritable cataract was witnessed. The back waters above the weir had spread over the ...
Article : 226 wordsThe ordinary midday train was detained at Elmore, when all passengers were ordered to leave the carriages. Subsequently Mr. Sais, stationmaster at ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Loddon rose rapidly on Thursday night, and at noon yesterday the flood waters reached their maximum height, the registration exceeding that of the 1870 ...
Article : 996 wordsThe heavy rainfall on Wednesday caused a second and more serious flooding of the Sheepwash Crock at Strathfieldsaye than that reported in yesterday's issue. The ...
Article : 118 wordsThe official forecast, issued in Melbourne at 9 o'clock last night was as follows:—Unsettled and showery, more especially on the highlands and along the coast; ...
Article : 79 wordsDaylight this morning vividly revealed the providential escape from an awful death of the passengers and those in charge of the ill-fated train from Ballarat to ...
Article : 754 wordsThe people of Rochester fear that the present flood will eclipse that of September, 1996, when only about a dozen residences in the town escaped flooding ...
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Advertising : 124 wordsThe present is also the record flood at Inglewood. Yesterday between 5.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. 163 points of rain fell, making the total fall for the day of 332 ...
Article : 198 wordsFrom the reports received by the officials, most of the territory in the shire of Marong has escaped damage by the flood. Mr. G. S. Read, the shire engineer, made a tour ...
Article : 117 wordsThe following report, submitted to the committee of the whole council at its meeting yesterday by Mr. J. R. Richardson, city surveyor, details the principal damage done ...
Article : 245 wordsRain set in about midnight last night and rained heavily all night and up to about midday to-day, 375 points having been registered. The Campaspe commenced to ...
Article : 200 wordsA disastrous and ruinous flood, which surpassed the one of 1870, occurred in the Leddon to-day, the river having attained a height of 10ft The Laanccooriee weir ...
Article : 386 wordsThe town clerk, in another column, notifies that, owing to flood damages, the Nolan-street Bridge is unsafe for traffic, and has been closed. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe main road from Bendigo to Epsom and Huntly has been left in a very bad condition. The first flooding on Wednesday morning loosened the surface, and ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Murray River is now in high flood, registering 30ft. 3in. above summer level, and rising rapidly. An immense area of country is a sea of water, and hundreds of ...
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Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), Sat 21 Aug 1909, Page 9
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