Flood Protection
The movement in favour of obtaining scientific aid from Government, in order to ascertain the possibility and practicability of protecting ourselves from…
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Floods & storms, 1857
132 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 7
Flood at and Near Miller's Forest. [From a Correspondent.]
Although at no great distance from Maitland, I presume from the impassable state of the roads, we seem to be a "terra incognita" to the Maitlanders, as in reading the various…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Flood on the River Williams. (From a Correspondent.)
Among instances innumerable of meritorious conduct and stirring incident, connected with the late calamitous flood on the River Williams, the following deserve honorable mention:â…
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A meeting of the Flood Relief Committes was held at the School of Arts yesterday, pursuant to advertisement, Mr. B. Russell in the chair. The meeting was called in consequence of an answer from…
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WE are happy to learn that the official survey of this portion of the valley of the Hunter, with a view to the ascertaining the possibility of taking protective steps against future…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRAINAGE v. FLOODS. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
GENTLEMEN—Seeing that all hope of protection against floods by banking in the river, and putting on flood-gates, has been swept away by the last deluge, we naturally look around for…
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OUR readers, who may be among the heavy sufferers by the late floods, will find, by the proceedings in Parliament on Tuesday, reported in another column, that the Assembly, by a…
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A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held yesterday afternoon, pursuant to advertisement. Present—The Revs. Dean Lynch, W. Parves, E. Griffith, J. R. Thackeray, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Maitland Floods and Railways. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
GENTLEMEN—No one rejoices more than myself at the rapid progress now making in the works of the extension of the Newcastle and Maitland Railway to West Maitland, we have…
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A meeting of the Flood [?]llef Committee was held at the School of Arts yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of considering a repart which is to be submitted to a public meeting of the inhabitants, and other business…
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Yesterday a public meeting was held at the School of Arts, to receive the final report of the Flood Relief Committee. Mr. P. Green was moved into the chair. The meeting was only…
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A public meeting of the inhabitants was convened, by advertisement, to be held in the Hall of the School of Arts on Monday afternoon, for the purpose of receiving from the Flood…
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