Another Threatened Flood
We are sorry that there appears at present every prospect of a flood. We have already reported that on Monday light showers fell throughout the day; during Monday night some very heavy showers…
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Floods & storms, 1867
112 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 6
The Threatened Flood
On Wednesday, as we reported in our last, most persons dreaded that another flood was about to visit us, and not a few that it would be a high one. Happily the river here did not rise much, and the news from the…
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SUNDAY, APRIL 28.—Since Triday the water has risen very little, but sufficiently to flood the greater portion of the low-lands and cover hundreds of acres of golden grain which had been relied upon by the farmers as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood on the Lower Wollombi.—high Fresh at Singleton. (Fromour Singleton Correspondent.)
The weather, which had such a promising appearance yesterdsy (Monday) morning again set in wet with a heavy shower in the afternoon, followed by several more showers throughout the night, and to-day (Tuesday) it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood at Windsor. (From the Herald's correspondent.)
APRIL 30TH, 9 P.M.—As may well be sapposed, we are now in the midst of a flood, the town being almost, if not entirely, surrounded by water. At all points nothing but the same spectacle meets the eye, and strikes one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Prevention at Oakhampton
Yesterday morning the Mayor of West Maitland, Alderman Gorrick, and Messrs. R. Scobie, W. Willard, and Logan, waited, by appointment, upon Mr. Graham, at Oakhampton, with the view of ascertaining whether…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, May 4, 1867. the Floods
To live in Maitland through seasons like the present is indeed trying to the strongest nerves We have heard of Englishmen well nigh goinig wild with excitement during the prevalence [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Recent Flood in the Wollombi Brook. Supposed Loss of Life by Drowning. (From our Singleton Correspondent.)
An old man named Meredith, who for a considerable time has been conducting a school on Mr.Taylor's farm, near the Yellow Rock, and some three miles above the village of Broke, is supposed to have been drowned during the recent Hood in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood in Hawkesbury River. (From the Herald's Correspondent.)
The rain, which has continued with little intermission during the last eight days, has, as was expected, produced a flood; the back water is very high, and many thousands of bushels of maize will be completely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood in the Clarence River. (From the Grafton Observer, May 4.)
Heavy rain fell on Saturday last, and on that night it came down in torrents. On Sunday the rain still continued to fall, and the river having then begun to rise much anxiety was felt, as there was every indication of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood in the Clarence River. (From the Grafton Observer, May 4.)
Heavy rain fell on Saturday lost, and on that night it came down in torrents. On Sunday the rain still continued to fall, and the river having then begun to rise much anxiety was felt, as there was every indication of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood in Hawkesbury River. (From the Herald's Correspondent.)
The rain, which has continued with little intermission during the last eight days, has, as was expected, produced a flood; the back water is very high, and many thousands of bushels of maize will be completely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. [From Our Various Correspondents.] Wollombi. the Late Flood
We earnestly beg you will do us the favour to briefly chronicle the lamentable state of our district, caused by the late floods. To go into the particulars would take up too much of your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood in Vermont
The Montpelier (Vt.) correspondent of the Boston Journal writes that the "aspect of affairs at the unfortunate village of West Hartford is desolate in the extreme. I am told that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lower Paterson and the Floods. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR—This is my second and last letter on the above subject, if you think it worthy of a place in your valuable journal it is my intention to trouble you no more. Being an old resident in this district, I really feel…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood-gates at Wallis Creek
A meeting of parties interested in the erection of floodgates at Wallis Creek was held yesterday' afternoon at the Municipal Council Chambers, West Maitland. About thirty persons were present. The Mayor was voted to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Flood
In the pressure of a higher flood than has ravaged the Hunter for years (since August, 1857) we are unable to supply our readers with the usual double sheet to-day nor indeed could we have filled it with news could we even have set the types…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, June 25, 1867. Disastrous Flood in the Hunter
As announced in our last issue, we closed hurriedly and went to press between four and five o'clook on Friday afternoon, in the apprehension that the flood waters would soon invade the machine room, and render…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood at Singleton. (From our own correspondent.)
It is our painful duty to have to record the occurrence of one of the most disastrous floods which has ever taken place in this portion of the Hunter River valley. The rapidity with which this flood followed the recent…
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Herald reports:—Thursday, 11 a.m.: The river is up bank high, and rising rapidly. A great flood is expected. The South Creek is over the banks. There has been twenty-four hours' incessant rain.—6 p.m. A great…
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