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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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It is again our unpleasant duty to record the occurrence o an extensive flood in the valley of the Hunter. The showers of the previous week gave place on Wednesday to a close and steady fall of rain, which, accompanied as it was with every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR readers will find in another column what we trust will be a sufficient excuse forvour publication this day of a single sheet only. The town and district are once again suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is a copy of a letter received in Maitland yesterday from Mr. Otto Baldwin:— " Derriwarindi, Feb. 13,1864—Saturday. " We are in a deplorable condition here; we had a flood six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday, as early as 9 a.m., the Page had commenced to rise—at 11 a.m. very rapidly, so that it was bank high. Some fears were at this time apprehended for the safety of the houses occoupied by the Rev. Mr. Hay and Mr. Donaldson, and scarcely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A brief letter was received yesterday by our contemporary from its agent at Tam worth Mr. Regan Writing on Friday, he states that telegraphic communication with tamworth was stopped. A most disastrous flood occurred there reaching its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I hasten to inform you of one of the most disastrous floods that has taken place in this district since its first foundation, but I am happy to inform you that we have lost no lives; and at present I am not able to ascertain the amount of damage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The rain began to fall on Tuesday evening and poured down steadily until Thursday afternoon. The river became impassible to drays on Wednesday rose rapidly during the night, and was half bank high at daylight on Thursday from which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In last Saturday's issue we chronicled the advent and progress of this disastrous visitation. On the morning of that day the river at Maitland was within 18 inches of being as high as during the flood of August, 1857. The current continued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We were visited with a disastrous flood it reached its highest point at one o'clock this afternoon. The stores of Messrs. Coghlan, Began, and Coben are flooded. From the sudden and unexpected height the water has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday, the 9th instant, rain commenced here with light showers, gradually increasing as night set in when it came down very heavy, continuing all night with scarcely any intermission. Next morning it was evident…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The late flood was about a foot higher in this town than the flood of 1857. The people in the lower part of the town had to leave. A child about ten years old, and a man at Bengalla, named Hearn, were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As far as this district is concerned, the flood which devastated the valley of the Hunter during the past week has not inflicted near so muoh injury as the flood of August, 1857. From what we oan ascertain, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although the level of the Hunter ot West Maitland has fallen so far as to dissipate the fears which were caused throughout the whole of Monday by the threatening appearance of the sky and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday the 9th instant, it commenced raining, and continued until the following Monday with only slight intermissions. In the meanwhile the river rose and covered the low lands on each of its banks, but not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For some days previous to last Tuesday, it had been very close and oppressive. On Tuesday afternoon, heavy rain set in, which continued through the night; during Wednesday and Wednesday night the rain descended in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When I sent you a few lines on Monday I promised to send you particulars as soon as I could get them. I should be sorry to make false statements. The rain came on here much the same, and about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We publish belew further extracts and correspondence relating to the late floods in the surrounding districts. At Maitland the river is still receding but slowly, having fallen to a level about 17 or 18 feet below the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR readers have probably observed the notice published by the Mayor of West Maitland, convening a public meeting at the School of Arts, on Monday evening, "for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WITH the experience of the past before us, and taking into consideration the immense extent of country which is drained by the River Hunter, and the peculiar character of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As I know you are always anxious to give your readers information on all matters, I now begin on the flood. Above and about Jerry's Plaius it has been very high, but varied, in comparison with the 1857 one, several…
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