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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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I am sorry to report that we have been visited by another disastrous flood, more destructive than the one experienced a fortnight since, as the water has risen several feet higher, and covered more land. The height of this flood is, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday morning last it commenced to rain, but nothing more than a Scotch mist during the day. Monday was a dull, dark day, and looked for wet. On Tuesday it set in with good earnest—rained all day, and continued all night. Yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent residing at Woodville thus describes the flood in the Paterson, the waters of which river and of the Hunter evidently "bayed back" each other, and caused such severe losses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are happy, to be able to state that the [?]s entertained prior to the publication of our last issue that this flood would attain a greater height and be more disastrous then even those of 1857, have not been verified, and that the waters of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GREAT FLOOD ANO LOSS OF LIFE.—Our Glen Qui[?] correspondent, writing on 30th ultimo, says:—"I have j[?] learnt that Narraby township is entirely under water, m[?] [?] the inhabitants having been obliged to desert their homes and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The river had gradually been going down after its alternate [?] and fa[?], owing to the rains of the month or more previously, and [?] al[?] [?]b[?], d[?] the in[?] showers from the general unbroken state of the weather of the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARTIAL FLOOD IN THE HAWKESBURY.—Thursday, [?] p.m. As intimated by telegram this afternoon, this district has [?] Tuesday been visited by an unusual heavy fa[?] of rain. During the latter part of to-day there has been only a [?]ew slight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been visited by another flood—fortunately, however, not so extensive or destructive as the last, yet sufficient to cause much inconvenience, and we fear loss, to many families. On the morning of Sunday last, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I send you these few lines to let you know that we are not all quite drowned yet, but have been visited with another flood, such as the one in April last, but not quite so high. The flood reached its highest on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although the river has fallen considerably below the level of the flood of last week, it is still several feet above ordinary highwater mark. Wallis' Creek has fallen but slowly, but is running out into the river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is with sorrow I have to record another and still more disastrous flood than the two former ones, which has swept through the valley of the Paterson, inundating all our low land, and in many instances destroying the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The late destructive flood has happily passed over without doing much damage here. Although the river rose very rapidly, and booked up all the drains, forming immense pools of water over the cultivation, it did not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE frequent high freshes, and latterly the three floods, of this season, have naturally set many persons devising means to lessen the destruction caused by flood rains in future…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A preliminary meeting was held on Thursday afternoon, at the Plough inn, West Maitland, pursuant to advertisement, for the purpose of "urging on the Executive the necessity of erecting flood gates to protect the junction of Wallis's Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE cannot be any question that the subject of the public meeting, to be held this (Tuesday) afternoon, is one deeply interesting to the whole of the inhabitants of this neighbourhood. Even…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting was held at Mr. Callaghan's, Plough Inn, West Maitland, on Tuesday afternoon, for the purpose of considering the advisability of appointing a deputation to wait on the Government to urge the erection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—The much vaunted "Hunter River district" has been again visited by a significant number of floods. These casualities are regarded by the great majority of our colonists as dire calamities, which leave…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A meeting of parties interested in the erection of f[?]ed-gates at Wallis' Creek was held on Monday afternoon, at the Plough Inn. About thirty persons attended. Mr John Borthwick was moved to the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following counter petition, against the proposed ereotion of flood-gates at the mouth of Wallis's Greek, recently petitioned for, has been circulated for signature in Maitland and the neighbourhood:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday afternoon, the 18th Sept., much excitement was produced throughout the whole of London in consequence of the receipt, by the Great Ship Company, of the following…
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