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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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The thunder and hailstorm of Friday evening, mentioned briefly in our issue of Saturday, was, as we then feared, much more destructive than it seemed to be in the parts of West Maitland, near our office. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—Every now and then we get startled, I may even say frightened, by hearing and reading accounts of fearful hail-storms; to farmers, indeed, they are most fearful, and are with reason much dreaded,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Queanbeyan correspondent of the Goulburn Herald thus describes a severe flood which has done much damage to the town and neighbourhood. On Saturday, the 19th instant, this town was visited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the week the weather has been oppressively hot and trying In the evenings there have been a succession of storms of wind, accompanied with lightning, thunder, and copious rains. On Wednesday, from six…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Since our last impression Armidale has been subjected to thunder and rain storms of an unusually severe character, but fortunately there was so little hail that many persons did not notice it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE commitee of the Assembly, on the mighty invasion of the "privileges" of the house by the Chief Justice, had fortunately more good sense than the hon. members seemed to have as a mass, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the last ten or twelve days we have had rain nearly every day, some days slight, and on others heavy showers. So far as we have yet beard, these rains at first were principally confined to the lower part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We appear at Maitland to have had a very narrow escape from a heavy flood, up to the time of writing this, Wednesday morning. The rise on Monday (as reported in Tuesday's issue) continued till it reached abouteighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is obvious that there are no general roles which can be relied upon as trustworthy in reference to flood casualti[?]s. It was formerly a belief of many old residents in Maitland that the Hunter here never rose again after it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tuesday. 6.41 p.m.—The water is still rising, having covered the South Creek Bridge. Information has just been received that constable Gordon, of Bathurst, is supposed to have been drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our district has been visited by a very destructive food. It commenced raining on the evening of Saturday, the 20th ultimo, and throughout the following week continual showers tell, but not sufficient to raise the rivers. On Friday last (26th)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I send you a report of the late disastrous flood in this district. After I might say a continual week's rain, on Sunday, 28th April, it poured torrents of rain nearly all the day. A flood, of course, was anticipated, but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No sooner had we begun to congratulate ourselves upon the return of fine weather and the passable state of our streets— mail communication with our neighbours on the Richmond and other places resumed, than our enjoyment is suddenly stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The damage done by the late flood fortunately turns out to be much less than was anticipated; no lives have been lost, except those of the boy Forde and constable Siedts, who so gallantly endeavoured to save the lad,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Just a month has elapsed since the last flood at the North Arm, and we are again visited with another, to complete the destruction that the last had left unfinished. On Thursday, the 25th ultimo, the rain set in and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is with extreme regret that we have to record the occurrence of another flood in the valley of the Hunter, which, (judging from appearances at the time we write) threatens to be of great extent and very destructive in its consequences…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our last issue we reported the progress of the flood to the hour on Friday ovening at which we went to press (earlier than usual, in consequence of the exigencies of the time). At that hour the river would nave been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the announcements which have appeared in this journal during the past three weeks in reference to the state of the weather, the reader will not be unprepared for the sad intelligence which it is our painful duty now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are happy to be able to report the continuous fall of the river, since the time of our, last notice; and with it a favourable change in the weather. The water with which so large an extent of country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our last issue we stated that the river, which, since the flood of July, had fallen to within four or five feet of its ordinary level, had, in consequence of the heavy continuous, and extensive rainfall of Tuesday night and Wednesday, again risen…
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