Great and Disastrous Floods in the North
FLOODS widely destructive of life and property have recently occurred. From the Trent to the Tweed the streams and rivers have all been swollen by the incessant…
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Floods & storms, 1867
22 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
The Late Flood in the Braidwood District
THE damages which have been done by the late flood were in no way over estimated by the brief intelligence which we published from Araluen in our last issue, and the damage that has been done in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecks of the Schooner Cyclone and Ketch Concord, of Sydney
George Belfour, chief officer, of the schooner Cyclone, who, with his shipmates, arrived in Newcastle on Sunday, having walked from Nelson's Bay, says:—"The schooner Cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood in the Braidwood District
As we feared, the flood of Friday night last proved the heaviest that we have experienced since the setting in of the late rains. As evening set in on that night, the rain, which had been falling…
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THE water continued to rise rapidly through the night, and is now within three feet of the great flood in 1864, and continues rising. A large number of families had to leave their houses and seek shelter in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods. -- Dreadful Loss of Life. and Great Destruction of Property
THE accounts which reached Sydney on Friday night and Saturday morning from the flooded districts were so contradictory and yet so alarming, that we despatched special reporters to the several…
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The tremendous heavy rains of the past three days have resulted, as might have been expected, in a most disastrous and destructive flood in the Hunter at Morpeth,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood Relief Fund
THE committee appointed on the 27th June, 1864, to relieve the distress occasioned by severe floods at that time, met, by invitation, at the Metropolitan Hotel, Pitt-street, at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Floods. Windsor
JUNE, 1864, will ever be memorable in this district on account of the great flood which rose to such an enormous height, and did such an immense amount of damage,…
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We have been favoured with the following extract from a letter received this day from Wellington:— On Thursday night the river commenced…
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The people of Ponrith are about to illustrate the truth of the adage which says that "misfortunes never come singly." One great calamity has befallen them, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods on the Lower Hawkesbury
ON Thursday and Friday last intelligence reached Sydney in reference to the effects of the late floods on the Macdonald River and Lower Hawkesbury, from which it appeared that while public attention…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood in the Murrumbidgee
ON Thursday and Friday week last from the tenor of the telegrams from Gundagai and other places, from the large quantities of rain which had fallen in the district, and from the black, lowering, and…
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MR. W. H. SUTTOR, has handed us the following letter, written by his son, Mr. F. B. Suttor, from Burrandong, dated 23rd June. The tale it tells adds another…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Floods. To the Editor of the Yass Courier
SIR, -- It is the duty of everyone to do whatever lies in their power towards alleviating the distress occasioned by the late floods, I therefore beg to suggest that an amateur concert be given in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods: Their Causes, Uses, and Remedies. To the Editor of the S. M. Herald
SIR,—After perusal of your leading article of the 25th June, it has occurred to me that a few remarks on the above subject may not be out of place or unacceptable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods Relief Fund
ON Thursday last a public meeting was held at the court-house in aid of the Floods Relief Fund. The meeting was called for half-past three o'clock, but there being no one then present the proceedings did…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Albury Flood
THE Murray flood of 1807 the worst of which we hope is now past is considered by old settlers to have attained a greater height than the noted one of 1817. Last Saturday night we were in receipt of…
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WE take the following particulars of the severe floods which occurred at Albury last week from the Border Post:--The Lady Daly, chartered for Albury, could not pass under Wahgunyah…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Floods in New Zealand
MOST providentially the fate which on Wednesday night imminently threatened a great portion of the town of Greymouth was averted by the gradual retreat of the flood, when the tide began to ebb…
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