Protection From Flood Dangers
WE have been a good deal disappointed in the examination of a Parliamentary paper which Las just reached us. Its title is "Floods and Drainage, Hunter River—Report of Mr. Adams,…
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Floods & storms, 1858
5 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
English Extracts. Extraordinary Storm. (From Lloyd's Newspaper, May 16.)
The inhabitants of Surrey side of the river, especially in the neighborhood of Lambeth and Southwa[?]k, will not easily forget the extraordinary and alarming scene which occurred on Thursday afternoon, which resulted in…
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By way of Melbourne, we have news from Tasmania to the I7th instant. The papers give particulars of the most serious floods ever known in that colony. The couches have been interrupted, and…
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Chicago papers just received contain details of immense destruction of property at Cairo, through the entire submersion of the towu. The assessed valuation of the property in 1857 was nearly two millions of dollars, but the papers say this conveys…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wallis's Creek Floods
THE many farmers and others interested in the complete and ready drainage of the lands along Wallis's Creek and its tributaries, will be gratified to learn that the Government have…
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