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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
194 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 10
We supply, from observations made leisurely upon Saturday and Sunday, further particulars concerning the progress of the second and greater flood. We may premise that all that the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The unprecedented lengthy period of wet weather, which has now prevailed for fully three weeks, with scarcely any intermission, has within the last ten days swollen the current of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We complete an account of the gale at Newcastle on Sunday last, by extracting from the columns of the Chronicle of Tuesday. That journal says that the cargo of the Ino,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Within the past twenty-four hours a southerly gale of unusually terrine violence has been raging along our seaboard. Although for the past few days a, heavy sea has been running…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Tuesday evening a meeting was held in the Reading-room of the School of Arts, for the purpose of devising some means of alleviating the Sistress caused throughout the district by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chronicle of Tuesday gives the following particulars of the effects of the rains in the Lower Hunter and at Newcastle:— The Hexham swamps presents an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When we closed our report of the flood in the Hunter on Monday afternoon, at five o'clock, the bridge gauge marked 28 feet. The water appeared to have remained stationary during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE revert to this subject again and again, partly because it is in Maitland, at any rate, for the time being, the subject of most pressing interest, and partly because it appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE GALE ON SUNDAY.—It is agreed on all hands that the flood now subsiding is, with its fellow of the previous week, equal to the most destructive that has ever devastated the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Most persons who have noted the progress and features of the many floods on the Hunter since June, 1857 (which was the first since January, 1840), are aware that no two of these floods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—The laws of nature—that is, the laws of God—are invariable Experience teaches this truth. Reason supplies the theory Perhaps an innate principle, or some power not far…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday morning, at eleven o'clook, the steamer Dooribang left Newcastle for Raymond Terrace, with boats and crews belonging to the Harbour Department and to the dredges—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the unexpected pieces of information that is furnished to a careful observer by a lengthened experience of floods, and an endeavour to fix accurately the comparative levels…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When we promised last week to supply our readers with details of the damage occasioned by the flood of Thursday last, we firmly believed that the worst had been experienced. On the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since last Wednesday the river Hunter had continued to rise, and on Friday morning had reached to 23½ feet above low water mark at Belmore Bridge, or 7½ feet below the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The floods in the Hunter District first cause a large amount of suffering and distress by driving numerous families from house and home, both in town and country. Bat it cannot be too…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tamworth has again been visited by one of those terrific rain storms which have been so common here during the past five weeks. We stated in our last issue that at the time we went…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This committee met yesterday afternoon, pursuant to adjournment. The Mayor presided, and the minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the present time, while the inhabitants of this district are so keenly feeling the effects of a flood, the question of flood prevention is one of the deepest interest, and the movements of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I feel yon won't require any apology for troubling you with a letter on the evil of floods, and pointing out some way that we may be relieved from their desolations, for you have…
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