The Flood at Dungog
I know you will bo anxious to hear from our district respecting the flood of last week. We had fully one week's wet weather—commenced on Tuesday, the 9th, and on Thursday the river was bank high, and…
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Floods & storms, 1864
121 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 7
Fearful Flood at Tamworth, Manilla, and Gunnedah.—loss of Lute. (From the Herald's Correspondent.)
Tamworth, Fab. 15.—This part of the colony has been visited with one of those awful floods with which the colony is sometimes affliated, which will bring utter ruin to many, and sadness and sorrow to all. On Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood Rains on New England
As will be seen above, Bondemeer, on the border of Now England (approaching from Liverpool Plains), was fearfully flooded. But no notioe of that fact had reached Armidale apparently when the Armidale Express of…
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FEBRUARY 14TH.—On the 7th instant rain commenced here, and continued in torrents to Friday morning. The river rose to a tremendous height during that time. Thursday Bendemeer was completely flooded; not a fence…
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BOWLING ALLEY POINT, 14TH FEBRUARY.—We have been visited by the heaviest flood that has been known in this quarter for many years. There were heavy rains at different times during the past fortnight, but last…
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The Northern papers, whioh we received yesterday morning, put as in possession of additional information respecting the late floods, which, unhappily, have been more extensive and disastrous than had appeared from…
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On Monday evening, a public meeting was held in the hall of the School of Arts, West Maitland. The meeting was convened by the Mayor, at the request of several influential townsmen, "for the purpose of enquiring into and ascertaining the extent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood in the Namoi River. (From the Maitland Ensign, Feb. 24.)
The following letter, received in town, on Monday, by Mr. Mark Turner, from Mrs. Turner, at Cox's Creek, a considerable distance from Narrabri, gives additional particulars of the ravages of the flood in the Namoi…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood in the Big River at Ginneroo. (From the S. M. Herald's Correspondent.)
On the third we had a slight rain, which was the first we had had for some weeks, and the river was getting very low. There was rain falling occasionally, but not heavily, till the 10th, which was a very wet day. Towards…
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The correspondent of the S. M. Herald, at Bingera, contributes an account of the flood there, substantially similar to that which we extracted in our last from the Tamworth Examiner. He adds:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood at Narrabri. (From the correspondent of the Singleton Times.)
I am sorry to inform you that we have just had a terrific flood in the Namoi. The river and creeks had been up for some days previous, but on Friday evening, 12th instant, about ten o'clock, the water commenced to rise…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods to the North-west
The Tamworth Examiner of Saturday, which reached us yesterday, contains further accounts from its correspondents of the extent and destructiveness of the late floods in the north-westerly districts…
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From the Brisbane papers to hand to the 29th Feb., we observe that the severe floods of the early part of February, which devastated the Hunter districts, and which inflicted so much destruction along the course of…
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Scarce had the waters of the late flood receded when the district has been threatened with a second visitation of like nature. As stated in our last issue, on Wednesday evening the river had risen between ten and eleven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood on the Hawkesbury. (From the Herald's Correspondent.)
Tuesday, 5 p.m.—It is our painful duty to record a serious visitation to our district by another flood, which will in all probability prove highly disastrous. It commenced raining here on Sunday evening, and has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Second Flood to the Northward
Yesterday morning our usual Northern papers came to hand, by the post, so we hope that all danger of further flood by this second series of 1864 flood rains is now over. Still the period has not passed without some…
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Yesterday morning we learnt, from a gentleman who had just come down from the Barwan oountry, that the squatters and inhabitants along the Lower Namoi and the Barwan have been suffering from a second disastrous…
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We (S.M. Herald) have Brisbane papers to Saturday, the 26th instant, from which we give the subjoined particulars of the devastating floods that have prevailed throughout the sister colony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods on Darling Downs
We extract from the Darling Downs Gazette of the 24th March the whole of the information as to the flood on Darling Downs contained in it. It will be seen with pleasure that the telegraphic information hitherto…
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Our Dungog correspondent writes, under date Thursday, 31st March, 11 o'clock p.m. "While I write the country is one broad sheet of water—everything must be lost. Still raining, and the…
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