Subsidence of the Flood
The river continues to fall steadily, but scarcely so fast as at first apparently. Last evening it had fallen to about nine or ten feet above high water mark…
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Floods & storms, 1857
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The Flood Distress Enquiry
On Thursday the following cases of distress were laide before the committee at the School of Arts. The Rev. Dean Lynch, the Rev. J. R. Thackeray, Dr. Liddell, and Messrs. Crawford…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Flood at Tamworth
We are favoured by Mr. Abraham Cohem with the following extract from a letter from Messrs. Cohen & Levy, Tamworth. It will be seen from this letter, and from communication…
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We have had one of the greatest floods known since 1840; the whole of this township was under water. We fear a great deal of damage has been done; a number of cattle and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Meeting for the Relief of Distress Through the Flood
The adjourned meeting in aid of those who were in circumstances of distress through the late flood, was held at the School of Arts, yesterday. The attendance at the commencement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Subsidence of the Flood
The river is falling now much slower than at first—scarcely a foot a da[?] apparently Last evening it was still nearly seven feet above high water mark. The deposit left by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood Relief Fund
THE people of the Hunter are, it appears, to be left to grapple with the flood distresses themselves, unaided by public subscriptions from without. Doubtless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal From the Flood Relief Committee
WE trust that the following appeal from the Flood Relief Committee will succeed in producing a more correct view of the flood distresses than now prevails very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods on the Namoi and Barwan
For two or three days past there have been rumours in Maitland that the floods already known to have occurred on the Namoi have been of a fearful character. On Sunday we heard from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods and the Crops
The following is the result of extensive enquiries from persons in business here, as to the present general prospects of the settlers, with regard to agricultural products…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Relief Meeting at Morpeth
A meeting was convened at the Globe Inn, Morpeth, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of adopting some measures for the relief of sufferers through the flood. Messrs. E. C. Close, J. A. Portus, and P. O'Keeffa were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood Relief Movement
We are happy to learn that the appeal of the Flood Relief Committee is producing the good effects' hoped for. Among the other subscriptions received since our last was one from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence River. Great Flood, (From the Armidale Express Correspondence.)
We have had a most terrific flood here, the second for this year. The flood in February last rose two feet higher than was ever known by the white residents on the river, causing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood Relief Committee. Publication of Applicants' Names
A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held on Tuesday afternoon, at the School of Arts, pursuant to advertisement. Present—Mr. P. Green, in the chair; Revds. R. Chapman, Dean Lynch, John Kenny, W…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Flood at Scone
The following is from the Empire of yesterday, Monday:- Some enquiry having been instituted as to the extent of the damage done by the late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. Newcastle. Fearful Gales
We have again been visited by frightful was ther. On Sunday night it came on to rain, and continued during Monday, the wind blowing very hard from the eastward; during the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mother Disastrous Flood
Another, and it is feared it will prove the most disastrous of all the Hunter floods of 1857, is now careering through the Valley of the Hunter. At the time of writing this portion of…
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We have gathered some particulars of great interest respecting the comparative heights of the Maitland floods. They are derived from Mr. John Eckford, the oldest inhabitant, we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood at the Cockfighter
In my last I promised to send you a further account of the disastrous flood, and although I cannot send you a full one, yet such as I can perform of the sad intelligence I hasten to do…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood at Singleton. (From our own Correspondent.)
We would have addressed you on Tuesday and Wednesday had there been any means of communication, nor while we are writing do we see any chance of this reaching you in due course,…
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