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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
14 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
To be foeewarned, we are told, is to be forearmed. No one cares to question the truth of a saying which ought to be confhmcd by general experience, though, considered as a rule, its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A traveller arrived here from Fairfield last night, and commmunicated to us intelligence of a most deplorable characterâ namely, the loss of four lives, and seven drayloads of property, Our information is derived personally from a most respectable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Within the period of the occupation by white men of the district of the Clar[?] no calamity has befallen it so great as that which it is this week our painful duty to record. Not more than three or four months have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →KEMPSEY, FEBRUARY 23.—The rain, at the close of the last month, caused the Macleay to rise about ten feet above its ordinary level at the commencement of the present, but no material damage was the result…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE accounts of the floods in the Clarence and Macleay Rivers which appeared in our last issue, and the narrative of the sad incidents which have invested the floods in Gipps Land with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Melbourne papers contain full accounts of the late severe floods in Gipps Land. Seven lives have been lost, some of them under circumstances of such a painful character that we omit other details in order to give some portion of the narrative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE case of the farmers of Dagworth and Louth Park is one which can hardly fail to excite public attention and sympathy, and which has good claims upon the Government for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BOURNE, April 2 —For the last two months the Darling has been rising, but it was not expected to rise so high as it now is—from forty to fifty feet above its ordinary level—within two feet of the level of the township;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting was held yesterday afternoon at Mr. J. Callaghan's, P/ough Ian, West Maitland, to consider what steps are most advisable to be taken to erect flood or fresh gates at Wallis' Creek. The meeting was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is satisfactory to observe that the settlers on the low lands to the south of Maitland have themselves taken action with the view of erecting a flood-gate at the mouth of Wallis Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I am directed to inform you, that under the certificate forwarded to this office (from the Treasury) from the bench of Magistrates at Wellington, with regard to the destruction by you of 2,909 sheep, under the "Scab…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19TH, 1863.—On Sunday last the overhanging clouds prognosticated coming rain, and even duriug that day we were visited with occasional showers, as a preparatory to the avalanche that was to come. Scarce had the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday evening Maitland and its neighbourhood were visited by a most terrific gale, followed up by crashing thunder, vivid lightning, and torrents of rain, altogether making such a storm as had not been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the whole of Monday (14th), and until an advanced hour yesterday afternoon, the rain poured down in torrents, with but an hour's intermission. For many hours Elizabeth and Swanston streets were almost…
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