The Flood at Dungog
It commenced raining here on Monday morning, and this morning our river is overflowing its banks-which of late is no aews. There is a good breadth of wheat sown, and many…
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Floods & storms, 1857
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Disastrous Flood at Windsor. (From the Empire's Correspondent.)
The heavy rains which commenced on Sunday afternoon, and continued falling in torrents until Monday night, have caused such s sudden rise in the river Hawkesbury that hardly bears…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, August 4, 1857. Dangers From Floods
"WE trust some of the many engineers in the country will be induced, or will be sent by Government, to examine and report on the best means of protecting the…
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We find in the Sydney papers of Saturday the following timely appeal from the Very Rev. Dean Lynch, as treasurer of the Flood Relief Fund. We fear that assistance to a large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood at Bathurst. (From the Bathurst Free Press, July 29.)
After one of those cold dense mists which have, during the past three or foor weeks, covered the face of the country, dark heavy rain-coluds fringed the complete circle of the…
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The river had fallen three feet since Monday last, and sixteen feet from its highest, at twelve o'clock yesterday, by measurement taken at the back of Messrs. Wolfe and Garrick's, with a two foot rule…
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A Meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held at the School of Arts, on Tuesday afternoon, pursuant to advertisement. Mr. L. W. Levy in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood in the Wollombi. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
GENTLEMEN—Should you think the following account of the flood which occurred here on Monday night and Tuesday, the 27th and 28th, north inserting in your journal, you may do so, which is as follows:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood at the Cookfighter. [From a Correspondent.]
I am sorry to acquaint you of another and more disastrous flood that has just occurred here. It commenced raining on Sunday evening last, and ceased but yesterday. The water has been 3½ feet in my…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Calamitous Flood of the Turon. (Abridged from the Sydney Papers Correspondence.)
SOFALA TUESDAY, JULY 28th.—I hasten to communicate particulars of the sudden visitation of one of the most disastrous floods on the Turon since the first discovery of gold in this locality. On Monday, heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hawkesbury River Flood. (From the S. M. Herald, Aug. 4.)
PORTLAND HEAD, JULY 31ST.—The heavy rains which have fallen during the present weak have produced a flood on the Hawkesbury of considerable magnitude, the rain commenced on Sunday evening last in this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Windsor Flood. (From the S. M. Herald, August 4.)
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1.—We are happy to state that the waters have subsided much faster than we had auticipated, and the river is now within a few feet of its usual level, The water, however, has remained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Camden.—the Flood. (From the S. M. Herald, August 4.)
THE FLOOD.—August 1. The flood has gone down within a few feet of its usual level, with much less damage than was expected. The bridge is repaired temporarily, so far that a loaded [?] can cross without any…
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The river appears still to be falling at an average rate of about a foot and a ha[?] per day, the measured mark at Messrs. Wolfe and Gorrick's yesterday showing [?]ineteen feet tall from the highes point, or three more…
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A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held at the School of Arts, on Thursday afternoon, pursuant to advertisement. Mr. Green in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read. The…
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It occurred to us on Thursday to be asked by a gentleman, a resident of the district beyond the Liverpool Range, whether or not there really was distress in this neighbourhood caused by the flood. Many there, he told…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Namoi Floods. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
GENTLEMEN—Having seen in your journal a letter from your Glen Quinn correspondent, stating that the late flood here—on the Namoi—actually exceeded the disastrous…
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On Saturday not a few persons began to entertaiu fears of a third flood, based on the belief that very little rain, now that the country is go thoroughly saturated, and all the gullies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood at Mudgee. Loss of Life and Serious Damage to Property. (from the Mudgee Newspaper, Aug. 5.)
In our last issue we mentioned that at the hour of going to press the Cudgegong or Mudgee River was running bank high for several hours after that time the river continued to rise…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood at Sofala. (From the [?] Correspondent.)
The disstrous flood of this night (Aug. 3) week caused a loss of several hundred pounds to our diggers. The inhabitants were quite astonished when they got ont of bed on Tuesday…
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