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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
10 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
On Thursday afternoon, the 5th instant, the trustees named by the Morpeth Flood Relief Committee, to expend, on the reid from East Maitland to Hinton Ferry via Hinton, the £600 received from the Government, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the General Flood Relief Committee, appointed at a public meeting held at the Masonic Hall in July last, was held yesterday afternoon, at Mort's Rooms. The meeting was convened by Mr. Hanson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The English language dose not contain a native word to express the more vioi[?]nt forms of wind. We have borrowed a great many since we because the great merchants of the Ea[?]t but hurrie[?]ue and [?]or[?]ade are spanish;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Port Louis Commercial Gazette, of 14th February says:— The threatening weather of Saturday evening and Sunday morning, with the gradual falling of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is only by slow degrees that we are beginning to understand the power of the storm which swept over the Bay of Bengal on the 1st of November. The most imaginative of men has a difficulty in accepting an experience…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The state of public feeling on the stations and at the Peninsul[?] and thro[?]ghout the Port can scarcely be described, for though on several previous occasions accidents have happened occasioning loss of life, it has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The s.s. Lady Darling arrived at Port Chalmers at eight a m. on the 29th, having left Hokitika on Thursday, the 25th, and Lyttelton early on Sunday morning. She was detained at Hokitika nine days, in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The South Australian Register received, per Doon, from the Mauritius, a copy of the South African Advertiser of May 20, which gives full details of one of the greatest catastrophes that has ever been witnessed since…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The late rains have done terrific damage to the growing crops in the vicinity of Shanghai, and, so for as we can learn, all over the adjacent provinces. The prospects of the country people for the coming cold season…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have so long been suffering from the effects of drought that the revival of discussion on such subjects as drainage and protection from floods seems at first sight rather untimely; but in…
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