A Storm-proof Telegraph
SOMETHING STRONGER THAN THE CABLE.-- The news of the world which was to bring England into instant communication with her American colonies has been shattered, but there are ties…
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Floods & storms, 1864
25 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Approaching Floods. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—The accounts which have just reached us of great and devastating floods, with loss of life, in the northern districts are indeed appalling; and there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods in Queensland
We have Brisbane papers to Saturday, the 26th instant, from which we give the subjoined particulars of the devastating floods that have prevailed throughout the sister…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood on the Hunter and at Newcastle
NEVER within the memory of the oldest inhabitant of Newcastle has such a scene presented itself as was witnessed on Friday morning, 3rd June. Thursday was ushered in with a murky and suspicious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and Provincial. the Floods
SUNDAY last witnessed the highest flood yet known in the district of Goulburn. Thrusday was beautifully fine; but on Friday morning rain commened, and continued pretty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods in the Darling
WE continue to receive very alarming account of the state of the floods in the River Darling. Everyone acquainted with the character of the country generally adjacent to the river must have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods in the Northern Districts
SINCE our previous issue the river has continued to fall at the rate of about two feet per day, and the back-water ceased rising on Monday evening, but it had been attained a height and extent of surface far…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and Provincial. the Floods
A REPORT reached town yesterday that the three men supposed to have been drowned on Sunday had been seen on the Sydney road near Wingello, and that they escaped by running along the fence on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Recent Floods. Goulburn
SUNDAY last witnessed the highest flood yet known in the district, of Goulburn. Thursday was beautifully fine; but on Friday morning rain commenced, and continued pretty steadily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood at Collector
I DARE say that from the various reports you are doubtless receiving from surrounding district, you are led to exclaim, with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner—"Water, water everywhere." Be this as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood at Queanbeyan
THE heavy rains reported last week to have fallen in other parts of the colony, visited us last saturday and Sunday, causing a high fresh in the river. The water rose rapidly at 9 a.m. on the latter day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods
Thursday night closed in fine and starlight, giving not the slightest indication of the coming rain and storm. Friday morning broke with a light drizzling rain, gradually increasing throughout the day,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods, and Loss of Life
THE recent floods and storms which have occurred in nearly all parts of the colony have occasioned dreadful loss of life and property. All round Parramatta, Windsor, Oamden, East and West…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Flood on the Lachlan, at Cowra
THE logs that were left on the banks of the Lachlan by the flood in the year 1844 have been carried away, and on the 13th of this month the river was two feet above any flood known on the Lachlan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Recent Floods at Braidwood
WE have further particulars of the floods, which exceed by far the sad anticipations we were led to form when we went to press on Tuesday evening. The following may be enumerated as amongst some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Relief Meeting
IMMEDIATELY after the close of the half-yearly meeting of the members of the mechanics' institute the meeting which had been adjourned from Monday last to take into consideration means of alleviating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and Provincial. Another Flood
We have been visited by another flood. Though at the time of writing the waters are about four feet lower than on the 21st of last month when they reached a height never before attained, yet as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and Provincial. the Floods
When we last wrote there was every appearance of continuous rain and of the waters rising still higher. But fortunately on Saturday morning it was seen that the Mulwarree and Wollondilly had fallen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Flood Relief Fund. To the Editor of the Herald and Chronicle
SIR,—I think public opinion in certain strata of society in the city of Goulburn, should undergo an amelioration in reference to charitable objects. My respected neighbour, Mr. Musgrave, was appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Calamitous Floods on the Macleay River
A TERRIBBLE calamity— one from which the Macleay will not recover for some time, if it recovers from it at all—visited the district last week. The loss of property is beyond calculation. Devastation…
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