SYDNEY STORM,

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 874, 21 July 1910, Page 5

SYDNEY STORM,

SHIPPING PAEJiS BABLX. ' AEEOFLANE'S FLIGHT. \ By Telegraph—Press. Association—CopyriEht. '•J- ■> Sydney, July 20. • During the storm, the. boa t of Joseph | . Clemens, a fisherman, was capsized in the harbour, and the man drowned. The/yacht Astrea, was si.vept from her lashings; and'smashed oc, the .rocks. The small steamer' SteJJa was thrown on-to. the . wharf,' and- ■ smashed. She Eanl". An aeroplane, just completed by a resident of Croydon, W'fiij in a shed. The shed • was and the aeroplane ! took its* only flight landing in a yard distance'awsiy, broken. ■ ' ■ . • FLOODS EECEDING'. . \...i" ; —— ; ■ ~ ■ . * . CHOPS MUCH INJURED. (Bee. July 2(i„ 9.15 p.m.) . ; • , '/ . Sydney, July 20. The ; floods in the NepeanEiver, one of the headwaj-ers of the' Hawkiesbury, are receding. ' • The flotrd in the Hawkesbury Eiver is the. highest for ten" years. A wide area on, the flats round. Windsor, high reaches of the river, has been inundated. Serious damage has . been,/done to ■ outstanding maize and other,' crops. ' . , ."•Some/of the. settlers' have been ,'compolled to .leave their homes. • The water • is now falling. The Chinese and other gardens round Sydney and elsewhere have suffered great damage, and hundreds of pounds' worth ' * of vegetables have been destroyed; The scarcity has caused a big rise in prices. ; ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER. (Eec. July 20, 10.55 p.m.)Sydney, July 20. The weather on the coast has moderated.; The' Melbourne Shipping Company's steamer Hobart left for ' Melbourne last 'night, and while battling - against the high seas broke the flange of ■her. main steam pipe. The vessel returned to?-port for-repairs to-day.