The Floods
A CORRESPONDENTT writing from West Maitland on Tuesday morning, states:—We have had a big flood here; it was 4 inches higher in High-street than previous floods, and about 3 feet lower at Bolwarra…
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Floods & storms, 1889
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The Floods in Pennsylvania. Terrible Calamity
MORE particulars of the terrible calamity at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, show that the inundation was speading rapidly all over the adjao[?] country. The scenes at the floods are described as awful in…
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ON Tuesday, at public meeting of persons favourable to convening a mass meeting of the inhabitants of Maitland and neighbourhood, for the purpose of devising means for…
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A correspondent to the T. and C. Journal writes:—Floods have brought a mixture of benefit and damage to the farming class in this Hunter valley. No calamity of this…
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ON Tuesday, a public meeting of persons favourable to convening a mass meeting of the inhabitants of Maitland and neighbourhood, for the purpose of devising means for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods on the Hunter and Hawkesbury Several Suggestions
A correspondent to the T. and C. Journal writes:—Floods have brought a mixture of benefit and damage to the farming class in this Hunter valley. No calamity of this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Floods in Victoria. Enormous Destruction to Property
REPORTS from all parts of the colony continue to come in, detailing severe floods; but, generally speaking, the waters are beginning to subside. The damage done to farmers and graziers in the…
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REPORTS from all parts of the colony continue to come in, detailing severe floods; but, generally speaking, the waters are beginning to subside. The damage done to farmers and graziers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Johnstown Floods. Details of the Disaster
THERE have been many horrible descriptive accounts of flood disasters, but we question if any thing yet, since the Noachim deluge, has equalled the scenes described in connection with the great…
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THERE have been many horrible descriptive accounts of flood disasters, but we question if any thing yet, since the Noachim deluge, has equalled the scenes described in connection with the great…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Storm at Byron Bay
CAPE BYRON is the most eastern point of Australia. It is a small but precipitons headland, projecting about two miles from the low land, and visible from 24 to 27 miles seaward. The guide book…
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CAPE BYRON is the most eastern point of Australia. It is a small but precipitous headland, projecting about two miles from the low land, and visible from 24 to 27 miles seaward. The guide book…
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THE rainfall for last week was one of the heaviest yet recorded, reaching 10½ inches at Grafton, and heavier at some of the down river centres. The rain was chiefly coastal, and this was the reason…
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THE rainfall for last week was one of the heaviest yet recorded, reaching 10½ inches at Grafton, and heavier at some of the down river centres. The rain was chiefly coastal, and this was the reason…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Ocean Steamers in a Gale. Seven Says at Sea
THE steamers City of Grafton and Australian that left Sydney on Tuesday, 16th inst., experienced the full force of the late heavy weather, having been at sea the whole time, crossing in on Tuesday…
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THE steamers City of Grafton and Australian that left Sydney on Tuesday, 16th inst., experienced the full force of the late heavy weather, having been at sea the whole time, crossing in on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Agriculturist & GRAZIER. Effects of Late Flood
OUR farmers have good reason to congratulate themselves on the comparatively small injury done to their crops or belongings, by the late flood. A very large proportion of…
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OUR Lawrence correspondent writes:—July 22nd: I do not know of any subject affecting us, or engaging our attention at the present time, more than this; everyone seems busy house-cleaning, drying, and…
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Mr. E. J. STATHAM has taken the level of the last flood, and finds that at Grafton the rise was 19 feet 1 inch; that of the 1876 flood, 23 feet 8 inches; and of the great flood of 1887, 21 feet 9 inches…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Saturday Morning, 27Th July, 1889. Provision for Warning People in Times of Flood
THERE are many lessons which, may be gathered from the recent flood lessons which, should neither be cast on one side or forgotten; lessons which should guide the people in the public interest to…
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