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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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The heavy gale which swept our coast on the 2nd and 3rd instant has left a fearful record of its fatal effects. We are already in possession of particulars relating to the loss of four ships,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is dur disagreeable [?]uty to chronicle the occurrence of another disastrous floud in the valley ot the Hunter, and from present, appearances there is every prospect that it will be greater than any similar disaster since the memorable flood of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →We are now suffering from the effects of a wet season. We suffered in a similar manner seven years ago. Thera is a difference between the experience of the two years. In the former…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr.Edward Knapp, jnnior, supplies the following from the Hawkesbury:— "Again has the fertile and beantiful distri[?]t of Windsor been laid waste by one of the greatest floods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The year 1864 promises to be as prolific in floods as its predecessor 1857, at least as far as the Hunter River district is concerned. The heavy rains on the 3rd and 4th instant caused a considerable fresh in the river here,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since our previous issue the flood then rising continued to increase in extent and rapidity. The weather of Monday night was extremely boisterous, and the rain heavy and constant, swelling the river upwards very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I am sorry to bave to relate an account of another flood. It could not have been less than between four and five feet high in most places. What maize escaped the flood a few months back the greater part is either laid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have had two severe floods within the last ten days, nearly as high as the July flood in 1867, doing a great amonnt of damage to the maize crops, and the roads in the district. I think Upper Wollombi, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The flood about Maitland reached its highest point before midnight on Wednesday, a couple of inohes perhaps higher than it had been on Wednesday morning— the river being then about twenty-six feet above high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The most disastrous flood that has been known on the Hawkesbury for many years has just taken place. The rain commenced on Friday, June 10, and poured unceasingly for twenty-four hours. The creeks were all up on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are not acquainted with the terms of the contracts entered into by the Government mail contractors, and are therefore unprepared to say whether the contractors or the Government are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →June 12.—Heavy continued rains have caused the Lachlan to overflow its banks, and it became one large sheet of water—a mile across. The water forced itself into about twenty houses to a depth of four to six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday heavy rain set in and caused the river to rise; its continuance flooded the river to a height as great as that attained in the flood of 1860 at that place, More than half the alluvial flat of the Shoalhaven is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tuesday, 14th June.—The flood reached its maximum at four o'clock yesterday, and remained stationary for three hours, and it then commenced to fall slowly Mr. Burke's cottage had fallen in, and portions of the back…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since Friday evening the river has fallen very slowly and is now about seventeen feet above high water mark The subsidence of the back water is much slower than that of the river, but it has fallen suffioiently to allow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It may, we think, with truth be asserted, that of all the floods that have been witnessed and Buffered by the people of Maitland and its distriot during the last ten years, not one has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting in compliance with a requisition presented to the Mayor, took place at the Court-house, last night, for the purpose of affording immediate relief to the sufferers by the late floods at Maitland. The meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We heartily agree with the opinion expressed by Mr. Vindin at the meeting on Wednesday evening, and also by a correspondent in another column, that the examination of the locality…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of this committee was held in the readingroom of the Sobool of Arts, on Thursday evening. After the disposal of some formal business, it was announced that the Commercial Banking Company had subscribed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We congratulate our readers on the success that has attended the efforts of the deputation from the Maitland Flood Relief Committee, to the Government, in obtain, ing substantial assistance, as the following report from…
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