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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
132 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 7
A correspondent writing on the 6th instant, says:— The rain commenced on Sunday night, 26th July, and continued until Wednesday morning, with little intermission; a great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It has been my painful duty to write on several occasions of late, touching the recent floods, and the disasters they have occasioned; but all I have written has been as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held, pursuant to advertisement, at the School of Arts, on Tuesday afternoon—Mr. P. Green in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We find the following advertisement in Tuesday's Herald, which seems to indicate a renewed intention to get up a public movement in Sydney in aid of the sufferers by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent sends us the following brief note of the losses by the flood at Yengo Creek, Wollombi. "Great destruction occurred here by the flood to both grain and fencing. Edward Readen lost a great deal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held at the School of Aris, on Thursday afternoon. Mr. P. Green in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →OUR readers will have seen that a public meeting is to be held this afternoon, at the School of Arts, "for the purpose of considering what steps should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE meeting of Tuesday passed off with excellent effect. Opinions were freely propounded as to the best mode of averting future dangers from floods, and, as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting, convened by the Police Magistrate, in accordance with a requisition signed by a number of influential inhabitants of East and West Maitland, was held at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Flood Protection Committee was held at the School of Arts, yesterday afternoon, Mr. B. Russell in the chair. Rev. J. R. Thackeray was appointed Secretary, and Mr P. Green Treasurer. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The impossibility of obtaining anything like an accurate account of the damage done to this district by the flood which came upon us on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 28th and 29th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another account of sad losses by the fearful flood in tbe Cookfighter has reached us. Our agent, Mr. M. Ward, writes:- " I am sorry I have to inform you that we have had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE third Hunter flood, with an interval of only three weeks after the second one, itself only six weeks after the first, will, we trust, move the Government and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The people of Maitland and the neighbourhood will become practised in flood sufferings, flood removals, and flood engineering. A flood, which at the time we write (three o'olook p.m.)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It has rained more or less for the last two days; [?] during last night it came down to torrents, and although there were appearances of a rise in the river, it did not appear to be of such consequence as to concern any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the mail is just starting, I send you a few hurried lines to say that it hat now (10 a.m.) been raining almost continually for the last 33 hours, and that our creeks are now overflowing their banks, with every…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →July 21.—Woe upon woe! Another inundation has visited our unhappy district, which promises to be more fearful and of greater magnitude than the former. The rain commenced yesterday morning (Thursday)—mild…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THAT the people of Maitland and the neighbourhood must in some way bestir themselves to avoid in future the tremendous losses, and the awful dangers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The flood we have just been visited with is regarded (with the exception only of that of 1820, reported by Mr. John Eckford, who alone remains to tell us of its mightly force), as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held at Mr. Levy's yesterday afternoon. Some further subscriptions were announced. The balance in [?]und was declared to be £120. A draft final report was brought…
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