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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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In addition to the above news, taken from the Herald's extra of Thursday, we publish the following extraordinary intelligence, which was telegraphed on Thursday from Sydney to our contemporary, the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Balclutha, with the English mails per P. and O. Company's steamer Bombay, arrived at Adelaide yesterday (Thursday) morning, and we received the following telegraphic intelligence in the evening:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE narrative of the disastrous floods in the north of England must have teen read with special interest by the people of this district. We who have become familiar with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →M. Ponson du Terrail, the novelist who has a country house near Jargeau, on the Loire, writes to the Moniteur the following " Scene of the floods " which came under his observation:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR—I perceive it is your intention to carry out the plan of flood-gating Wallis' Creek. I fear the plan will be a very useless one, as it is by the floods you became possessed of such a vast quantity of rich alluvial soil. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We (Empire) regret to see by the Nelson papers that another flood has occurred in that city, causing considerable damage to property. We extract the following account of the flood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After a long drought, a change in the weather occurred on Friday evening last, after two or three fitful indications of an approaching change during the preceding part of the week. We had only a few partial showers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad and serious is the change in this district's prospects from this day week, and short was the time for the accomplishment of the dreadful results—three persons drowned —crops and fencing destroyed—and many families driven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE LATE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENTS.—The late lamentable accidents at the Tuross Heads h[?] cast an additional gloom over this neighbourhood, already desponding enongh on account of the recent high flood. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A leading article or anything approaching thereto, from our pen on this occasion, is altogether out of the question. For two days our office has been surrounded by the sea, which, rising higher and higher with each…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Although we have so far (Friday evening) escaped having a flood in the town of West Maitland, by the aid of the embankments erected by the Municipal Council, the neighbouring low lands have suffered from overflow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The gale which swept the coast during the past week has been attended with disasters to shipping, accompanied by loss of life. The information of the above wrecks was first brought to Newcastle by the chief officer of the Cyclone, and Captain Arnott,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Friday Morning.—Since midnight the waters have been subsiding, after a flood as high, within a foot, of the flood of 1857. April 14th.—The river has not yet receded to its passable calibre, but there has been communication enough between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I have to report that we are once more visited by a most disastrous flood. It has been a continuous rain here since Monday morning up to eleven o'clock last night, and the height of the water now exceeds that of any other flood since that of '57;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heavy rains of the first four days and nights of this week have placed us almost under water again. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning the Green Wattle and other creeks began to send a flood of water over the Lockgoyle Clifden,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When I closed my communication yesterday (Thursday) I mentioned that it continued raining, and that the river had risen about fifteen feet. Shortly after posting my letter the rain set in very heavily, and continued to pour down (sometimes in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As we mentioned in our last issue, the Hunter began to fall about four o'clock on Friday afternoon. At first the fall was only at the rate of about an inch or two an hour, but during the night it fell somewhat more rapidly, and by daylight on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The floods of last week will cause heavy losses to hundreds in this district, and force upon many difficulties with which they are ill prepared to struggle. They are fitted, however, to teach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alter a week of almost unbearable hot weather, Monday morning came in cloudy, and about seven o'clock the rain began very heavy, at intervals, until about two o clock, when it come down in earnest. As darkness set in a strong southerly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rain! rain! From Monday to Thursday it rained without ceasing Fearful was the outpour all Monday night. It appeared to be one continuous sheet of water rushing from the over-ohargad clouds to deluge the…
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