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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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We have been visited with another flood. Since my last communication a continuance of showery weather has c[?]urred. On the 29th rain fell very heavily throughout the whole day. The 30th was about the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the James Paterson (s.) which arrived from Rockhampton at four o'clock on Friday morning we (S. M. Herald) learn from the Maryborough Chronicle that the town of Maryborough had been devastated by an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is again our misfortune to chronicle another flood in this district, which, although not quite so disastrous as the great flood of 1857, rose in the upper part of this river to within a foot of its height. Lower down, about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is an extract from a letter, dated March 25th, received yesterday morning from Kidgar, a station on the Castlereagh, thirty miles from Wallgett, with reference to the floods that had visited that district:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This part of the country is now in a fearful state with water, and nothing but water everywhere—in houses and out of them; we cannot find a dry place to put the soles of our feet on. Business and all sorts of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On my way up from Maitland I had rain all the way, arriving on Sunday night, so you can fancy that I found the roads in a most miserable state. Since my arrival it has continued raining, and now, Tuesday night, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the inhabitants of the desolate town of Gunnedah, called together through the influence of the Rev Father Dillon, took place on Friday last, April 1st, in the temporary Catholic church, situate near the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters from the Dumaresq report the flood very heavy in that river, and much damaged one to fences and buildings along its banks At Messrs. Keys and Hetherington's station the kitchen was carried away, and part of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many of our readers who were residents on the Hunter in 1857 will doubtless remember that very frightful predictions were then currently repeated, by person after person, as to the destruction to be wrought by a fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Saturday, 2nd April.—I have to inform you of the highest and most injurious flood that has occurred for many years in this district. On the morning of Monday last there was indication of approaching rain. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent, writing from the Barwin, on the 5th inst., furnishes us with the following account of the severe losses of property and some loss of life caused by the floods in the above-named rivers:â…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GENTLEMEN—Seeing that many settlers and others are suffering much inconvenience and loss from the effects of the late disastrous floods, is it not worth while to inquire whether something could not be done to lesson the pressure…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Again an unexpected and extensive flood has viated the productive valley of the Hunter, and has spread is desolating influences over a large area of cultivated land— driving industrious settlers and their families from their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE inhabitants of West Maitland will lcarn with pleasure that the subject of protecting the town from flood is under the consideration of the Municipal Council. It is time that we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Herald's Newcastle correspondent gives the following account of the damage done to the railway, and the steps taken to repair it. On Saturday afternoon I took a trip up the line to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I am sorry to have to state that this district has again b[?]n visited with another flood with such disastrous reunits as to surpass any that have taken place since the flood of August,'67. It commenced to rain slightly in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WINDSOR.—Saturday Night.—Our district has again been visited by a flood. It is well, however, to be able to congratulate ourselves that the rise so far in the river and creek has not been so great as to inflict a very large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since our previous issue, the river has continued to fall at the rate of about two feet per day, and it is now back-water ceased rising on Monday evening, but it had then attained a height and extent of surface far greater…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is our sad duty again to chronicle another of these awful visitations which it has pleased the Almighty to send us. As yet we are glad to hear no lives have been lost, though from the evidonces which have reached us,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our district has again been visited by another dis[?]trous inundation. All of our [?]luvial land is again fl[?]ded; the hopes of our farmers, so far as the wheat crop is concerned, are all destroyed. The destruction to…
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