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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
132 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 7
A meeting of the Flood Protection Committee was held at West Maitland on Tuesday. Twelve of the members attended. Dr. Liddell was called to the chair. The Chairman expressed his sense of the urgent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although this last flood has not reached the height of the flood of 1820, yet, as Mr. John Eckford has informed us, it has exceeded the flood of that year both in volume of water and in its rapidity. The height…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Again it is my painful duty to acquaint your readers of the third disastrous flood this part of the country has been visited by. It commenced raining here on Wednesday night (19th) and continued raining heavily until…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Again the Hunter has overflowed its banks, to a greater extent, and attended by more disastrous consequences, than on any occasion it has hitherto fallen to the lot of this district to record Much land under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last evening we ware favored by Mr. Heugh with the following extracts from letters of Mr. S. N. Dark, of Clarence Town, to him. The flood in the Williams was evidently, from these letters, more terrible even than that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I do not intend giving you a full account by this pas of the disastrous flood and distressing loss of life here on Friday last. The destruction to property is beyond description. Annexed I give you the names of seven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held a Mr. Levy's, on Thursday. Twelve members were present. Dr. Liddell was moved into the chair. Some additional subscriptions were announced, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The past two days rains have again flooded the river, and the water has ranged 2 feet 6 inches higher than on the former occasion, and we regret to say the arch of the Denison Bridge, abutting on the Kelso side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Flood Protection Committee was held on Thursday afternoon, at Mr. Levy's, Sixteen members attended. Mr. P. Green was moved into the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PENEITH.—This district has again been visited with a fearful flood, causing the grestest alarm to exist in the minds of all as to its awful result. Numbers of the resident farmers were driven from their homes in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have had upwards of forty hours' steady and constant rain, and now, 10 a.m., it is still raining, and likely to continue. If they should have had nearly as much rain towards New England and Saumares as we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SERIOUS MAIL, ACCIDENT.—Mr. Pierce, of Canowindra, who arrived in Sydney yesterday, informs us that the mail conveyance from Bathurst met with a serious accident on Thursday last, while en route for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 24th.—Once more we have been visited with a very severe flood, quite as high at the one on July 31st. The rain commenced on Thursday morning, and continued, with a tremendous high wind, till late on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Higher floods have, within the last two days, been experienced in Goulburn than has been the case since the year succeeding the great flood at Gundagai. On…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Extract from a letter dated August 24.âSince your brother left we have had tremendous rains, and I tear a great deal of damage has occurred in the interior. The shores of this harbour are covered with thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The present is a gloomy time for New SouthI Wales. There are seasons which try men's souls even more severely than the desolations of war. To feel that the elements are battling against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although we are favored with two conflicting prophecies, one by somebody that some time in September, the 16th seems generally fixed on, a fourth flood is to occur higher than either of the precedingâand one by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is not many days since our sympathies were excited by the misfortunes caused by the late calamitous [?] dations on the Hunter and Paterson, and the farmers of this district were congratulating each other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By last mail I promised to give you a full account [?] the disastrous flood, but it is impossible for me or any one party to do so. On Wednesday evening last it commenced raining in a mild way. Thursday all day, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 25.—The waters continue to recede from their high position but very slowly. They are now only about a couple of feet below the platform of the Fitz Roy Bridge, having fallen about twenty feet altogether…
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