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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
194 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 10
On Thursday morning, pursuant to notice, a meeting of the Working or Executive Committee of the Flood Relief Fund was held in the Hall of the Chamber of Commerce, Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dear Sir,—Seeing you are inviting persons who have taken heights of the various floods on the Hunter, I beg to enclose you a list of the various floods that I have marked on a post in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is our painful duty to chronicle the greatest, if not the most disastrous flood that has yet been known on the Moruya River. Wednesday, the 2nd instant, rain fell after a month's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The S. M. Herald of Tuesday copies from the Clarence Examiner of March 31, a full account of the heavy floods on the Richmond River. We at first thought that it must be a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Now that fine weather has again set in, it becomes our duty to chronicle some particulars concerning the late bad weather, the state of the river and crops. Although on the lower…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The mailman is just starting for Kempsey, and I hasten to send you a line or two about this part of the district. Yon have no doubt experienced the same sort…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following particulars of the flood at Gympie, Queensland, are extracted from the Gympic Times:— On the left side of the street Fulton's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A debate upon this subject was opened at the School of Arts, West Maitland, on Thursday evening, in the presence of a moderately numerous audience, which would probably have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I feel it my duty to write and let you know the fearful effect the lete rain has caused in Denman, as I can safely say, from what I have heard from the oldest resident in Denman that it has exceeded any previous flood here by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Throughout the dreadful rains which occurred at the latter end of last month, and which produced such dire [?]ities to the inhabitants located on the Hunter about M[?]tland, this, the Upper Hunter district, w[?]singularly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have just been visited by the highest and [?]nsequently most disastro[?]s flood which has ever de[?]astated this district since the time when it first became settled by white men, nearly fifty years ago. This [?]s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is now our painful duty to record the course and progress of the highest flood that has ever occurred in the Hunter generally, at all events since that of 1819 or 1820. At present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[Herald.]—The river is at the same height as that reached by the late flood, but is falling. A boy named Monogue was drowned at the back of the Court-house this morning, and the body has not, up to this time (11.17 a.m.), been found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday evening heavy rain set in, continuing throughout the night and the next day. Lawson's Creek rose rapidly, Mr. Mann the Government surveyor having to shift his camp suddenly from there leaving his tent and the horses behind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Sydney telegraphic correspondent reports as follows, dating thursday evening:— News from Yass states that a flood commenced there early on Tuesday. The old bridge gave way, and the debris lodging…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our usually quiet neighbourhood was startled on Saturday evening by perceiving that the Peel had risen to quite an unusual height. It commenced raining here early on Friday morning and a steady rain continued all day until early on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following account of the flood at Wingen we extract from a letter receive to-day (Wednesday) by Mr. Ruddock, from a gentleman residing at Wingen, near Scone:— "Wingen, Sunday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It began raining here on Thursday evening, and continued during Friday and Saturday. On Sunday morning the creek came down higher than had been seen for years. This, however was totally eclipsed by the flood of Saturday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday night April 21, it commenced to rain here, and continued all that night and Friday. The river on Friday afternoon rose rapidly, still raining, heavily. Dr. Richards's family, who reside nearest to the water packed up everything…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have not yet any flood report from Scone, bnt a gentleman near Scone, writing to a business firm in Maitland on Monday evening, says:—"Yesterday we had the highest flood here I think I have ever experienced I had just got up the…
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