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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1866

25 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2

Original Correspondence. to the Residents of the Flooded Districts. (Per favor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1866 · page 2

GENTLEMEN—By taking advantage of the favorable opportunity which now presents itself, you may emancipate yourselves from that hither to hopeless condition in which you have…

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New Zealand. Flood in the Grey River. (From the Grey River Argus, September 11.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 October 1866 · page 3

On Saturday night [?]reymouth was visited by ns heavy a flood as has over occurred since the formation of the town [?] Thursday n good deal of rain feil, nnd during thatnight constant f[?]shes of lightning and occasional…

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The Flood at Melbourne

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1866 · page 2

The Melbourne Argut of the 8th instant, gives a vivid description of the late flood there:— The river rose to its highest point at about nine a.m. on Saturday morning, when Mr. Fitzgibbon, the town…

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Destructive Storm at Sydney. (From yesterday's Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1866 · page 2

On Friday evening last, Sydney was visited with a tempest of wind, rain, and hail of almost unprecedented violence. Fortunately the storm did not burst over a very large area of ground,…

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Forests, Deserts, and Floods

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1866 · page 3

The Melbourne Argus of 29th October thus calls attention, in a loading article, to a probable danger preparing for the Australia of the next century—for it is hardly probable the present rate of tree destruction will…

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