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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
112 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 6
During Friday night the gale raged with great force Pilot Gibson, who was on watch at the signal station, South Head, all Friday night, states that the most violent gusts of wind [?]e ever experienced blew about two a m.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A gale of unusually terrific violence has swept along our coast during the past week, but fortunately has in this instance, been unaccompanied by any serious disasters to shipping. The first premonition of the coming storm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since our last issue the prevalence of fine weather, and the steady subsidence of the flood, have to some extent restored public confidence and brightened the prospect around us. The clear bracing air is welcomed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is again our painful duty to record floods of a most disastrous character, in the Nepean, the Hawkesbury, and the Hunter consequent on the late heavy rains—floods greater than those which have laid waste from time to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our district has undergone a mighty change within the last few days through the flood, and the loss cannot at the very lowest calculation, be less than £5000. And although the flood is about eighteen inches below the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The flood waters subsided very rapidly yesterday and to-day, but the river is still some eleven or twelve feet above its usual level. As communication is opened up gradually between the town and its district, most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This district has been visited with the highest and most disastrous flood within the memory of the oldest settler on the brook—the water in 1857 being at least four feet lower…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following letter from a correspondent gives some particulars of the flood at Fordwich:— (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.) SIR—I much regret to have to report to you that great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It has fallen once more to-my lot to chronicle another flood to swell the catalogue of disastrous events which have for so long a period been so injurious to our district. On Tuesday, the 18th instant, the weather had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent of the S M. Herald writes:— By the courtesy of the traffic manager of the railway I was accommodated with a seat on the ballast train. We left the Honeysuckle Point Station at about 9 a m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood Relief Committee, of West Maitland, meet daily for the dispatch of business. On Wednesday the meeting was presided over by the Mayor. A letter from B. Lee, Esq., M.L.A., was read, respecting an application…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have still to report a steady fall in the river, which is now about seventeen feet below the level attained during the flood. The weather has happily continued fine, with a dry bracing air and thus very favourable to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[Herald.]—The Murrumbidgee rose rapidly on the 21st instant after much bad weather from the eastward, and on Saturday night the 22nd, it broke its banks, flooding into, the town. By Sunday morning, at eleven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday evening a public meeting, convened by the Mayor of Sydney at the request of a number of citizens, was held in the Masonic Hall, "to take into considera tion the best and most prompt means for rendering relief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday evening (June 20) the first apprehension of a rise in the river here was felt. Lawaon's Creek was flooded first, and on Friday evening it was considered advisable to get the family of Mr. Edward Bayly out of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting was held at the Mechanics' Institute, East Maitland, on Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of taking measures to alleviate the distress caused by the late flood. The Mayor (Alexander Dodds, Esq.,) presided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of this committee was held on Saturday, the Mayor presiding in the chair. Mr. J. M. Saunders reported having received £700 to the credit of the Mayors of East and West Maitland for the relief of distress…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Mudgee Western Post, of Friday last, publishes the evidence of the principal witnesses at the inquest on the bodies of the nine persons drowned at Burrandong, as reported in a late issue:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We had a most distressing flood laat week. The river began to rise on Thursday evening, and during that night there w&s a second 20th of August, 1857. On Friday morning the cultivation fiat was all under water…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As there is a probability of the mail leaving here to-morrow, I send you a few items respecting the late flood:— "During the earlier part of last week we were visited…
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