British Extracts. the Late Heavy Gale. (From the Times, January 28.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1852 · page 2
The furious gale which swept along the Channel and eastern coast during the whole of last Saturday and Sunday has been productive of the most serious disasters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Extracts. Storm in Scotland. (From the Spectator, Jan. 16.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1852 · page 3
The storm in the north of Scotland appears to have completely closed the roads over a large district. It was not till last Saturday that they knew what had happened at Inverness on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney News. Gundagai.—dreadful Flood.— Sixty-four Lives Lost. (From the Herald, July 5.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1852 · page 4
June 28.—I beg leave to forward you a brief account of a fearful flood we have just been visited with, at Gundagai. Though the river had been rising for some days previous, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Southern Floods. (From the Herald, July 8.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 July 1852 · page 3
The floods at the Murrumbidgee appear to have been even more disastrous than was reported, fearful as was that report. Instead of seventy, there have been upwards of a hundred lives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Southern Floods. (From the Sydney Morning Herald, July 15.) Wagga Wagga
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 July 1852 · page 4
THURSDAY, JULY 2.—It is again my painfu[?] and distressing task to record one of those fearful visitations, before which the boasted power of man bows like the slender reed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood at Gundagai. (From the Herald. July 19.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1852 · page 4
JULY 17.âOn leaving Sydney, I promised on arriving at this ill-fated township to give you a more detailed account of the casualties caused by the late dreadful flooding of the…
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