GENERAL CABLE NEWS
HEAVY SNOW FALL. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) CONSTANTINOPLE, January 23. Twenty-one feet of snow fell at Ardahan (Georgia), 47 persons being frozen to death. STORMS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, January 24. Torrential storms in the Hunter Valley resulted in the streets of the town of Singleton and other settlements being flooded, the water in many cases entering the houses. The gauge at Singleton measured 250 points in half an hour. THEFT OF JEWELLER'? AND PAPERS. LONDON, January 23. (Received January’ 25 ,5.5 p.m.) Robert Delany, a civil engineer, aged 21, was remanded on a charge of breaking into Lady Northcote’s house in St. James Place and stealing jewellery and documents. The latter, including Lady Northcote’s instructions in the event of her death, were discovered in a railway cloakroom. TOWN DESTROYED. PERTH, January 24. A cyclone practically destroyed Roebourne, a small town in the far north-west. The damage amounts to many thousands. There were no deaths.
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Southland Times, Issue 19459, 26 January 1925, Page 5
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