Loss of the Storm King and Rover, Schooners. (From our Newcastle Correspondent.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 November 1856 · page 3
On Friday morning last, at about half-past five, these unfortunate vessels wire driven from their anchors. The strength of the fresh and the the together scoured the ground from their anchors, which caused them to…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1856 · page 2
BRIGHTON, THURSDAY.—A most severe gale [?]sited this part of the coast last night. About eleven o'clook at night the wind began to blow very briskly from the southward and eastward,…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1856 · page 2
A public meeting of proprietors of land in this district was held on Thursday, pursuant to advertisement, at Mrs. Cornellous's Inn, Morpeth, for the consideration of the subject of floods and drainage, and for the…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1856 · page 2
WE learn that the committee appointed at the recent public meeting on this subject, has drawn up a petition to the Government praying that full enquiry…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1856 · page 2
The following is a copy of the petition agreed on by the committee appointed at the late public meeting, and to which signatures, we understand, are now being obtained. We are…
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