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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from Fordwich, from which we make the following extracts:— "The flood here was three feet higher than the flood in '57, causing immense destruction to the inhabitants of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following particulars as to the effects of the floods at the above places, have been furnished to us(S. M. Herald) by a gentleman who arrived yesterday overland from Wollombi:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The traffic on the Great Northern Railway line has not been resumed as early as anticipated, the damage don by the late flods being of a more serious nature than at first imagined. On Wednesday last, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A large and influeetial meeting was holden in the Court-house at three o'clock this (Tuesday) afternoon, for the purpose of devising means of alleviating the distress and suffering occasioned by the late floods in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the meeting of this committee, heldon Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Liddell was in the chair. Mr. Strachan reported that there was the amount of —585 17s. 6d. in the bank to the credit of the fund.—A letter was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The five days' rainy weather of last week have, as it was expected, been the cause of the most disastrous flood that ever visited this district. Our telegrams of Thursday stated that there had been three days heavy rainfall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday and Friday week last, from the tenor of telegrams from Gundagai and other places, from the large quantities of rain which had fallen in the district, and from the black,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting of the inhabitants of Murrurundi, after a few hours' notice, took place at the court-house, on Tuesday afternoon. We enclose the names of all present, viz., P. W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DEAR SIR—Will you kindly oblige by finding space in your interesting columns for several of tbe flood-sufferers of Miller's Forest, who beg most respectfully to acknowledge their gratitude and heartfelt thanks to Mr. and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Will you kindly allow me space in the columns of your valuable journal for the insertion of the following; On reading in your issue of to-day a paragraph containing the names of certain gentlemen as members of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A public meeting was held in the Court-house, Raymond Terrace, on Saturday last. About forty persons attended. The object of the meeting was to devise means to alleviate the distress occasioned by the late…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are favored by the Morpeth Flood Relief Committee with the following correspondence, showing the gratifying fact that the Government have granted £350 to the Morpeth Municipal Council for relief to the sufferers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The central working committee met again on Monday morning at the usual hour. Mr. Piddington (as treasurer) reported that the sum deposited to the credit of "The Floods Relief Fand" in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Central Flood Relief Committee in Sydney having expressed a wish to obtain further particulars respecting the flood distress in this district, a sub-committee was appointed by the relief committee at West Maitland to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday morning, as the Hon. Colonial Secretary passes through West Maitland, to fulfil a long standing engagement at Singleton, he met at the railway station a deputation from the Floods Relief Committee, who attended by appointment, to lay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the working committee of the above took place on Thursday morning last, in the Chamber of Commerce, Sydney Exchange—the Mayor in the chair. Various reports were made to the committee by members, in some of which it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of about thirty persons was held in the conrt-house, on Saturday night, for the purpose of co-operation in alleviating the wide-spread distress caused by the extensive destruction of the maize crop and other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—The farmers are acustomed to minor freshes and floods, which so repeatedly impoverish, but this visitation will completely ruin the generality of them. I apprehend this statement will be approved of by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the Morpeth Flood Relief Committee was held at the School of Arts, on Monday morning, at eleven o'olook. There were present the Rev. Messrs. Wilkinson, Boag, Walsh, and the Rev. S. C Kent, delegate from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A special meeting of the above committee was held at the East Maitland Mechanics' Institute on Monday last. There was a large attendance of members present, in order to meet the Rev. S. C. Kent, who attended as a…
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