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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
194 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 10
SIR,—The perusal of the Report of the Flood Commission affords no hope that anything can be done, either to remove or mitigate the devastating effects of floods, so that the district is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This district has, during the past week, been subject to one of those periodical inundations for which the Clarence, like all other rivers, has become proverbial. The late heavy rains,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hood was six inches or eight inches less at Rolland's Plains than in 1864, but was most disastrous. On Friday, the 18th instant, and Saturday, it washed land, fences, and crops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Hastings we learn that the flood was six inches higher at Rawden Island than in 1864. The corn on anything approaching low land has been swept away. Sugar cane…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent of the Macleay Herald, writing on the 22nd instant, states:—I am truly sorry to have to inform you that we have been visited with a very disastrous flood, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent writing from Port Macquarie states:—The Hastings has experienced a severe flood. On Saturday some hay-stacks went out over the bar. It is feared that there has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For some weeks the weather was unsettled,— alternate rain and sunshine. On Wednesday the clouds broke upon us, and pourod down all day. Thursday was almost incessant rain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The adjourned meeting of the committee of the Flood Prevention League takes place to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon, and they will have before them for consideration not only the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An adjourned meeting of the General Council of the Hunter River District Floods Prevention League was held yesterday afternoon, at the School of Arts, West Maitland. Present: The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE resolution passed the other day, by the West Maitland Municipal Council, affirming the expediency of re-erecting the Wallis's Creek flood-gates, does not pledge the Council to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The General Council of the League met in the School of Arts, West Maitland, yesterday afternoon. Present: The Rev. J. Benvie, Rev. B. T. Hills, Messrs. J. Creer, J. Gorrick,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A southerly burster, accompanied with a thunderstorm, passed over the town last evening. The lightning was very vivid. One flash struck a house in course of erection in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following correspondence, just forwarded to us, will be of much interest to our readers at Murrurundi:— (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wo gain, from the Newcastle Chronicle of Tuesday, some particulars of the late Southerly gale and its effects at that port, in additton to those published by us in our last issue…
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