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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
194 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 10
ONE distinct step wai gained through the meeting on Monday night. There was a clear expression of public opinion in favour of local taxation to defray the cost of flood prevention…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir—It is exceedingly painful to read, almost daily, among the telegrams from Sydney, such disastrous news of the effects of the floods which have again visited the valleys of our neighbours;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have great pleasure in laying before our readers the following correspondence. Mr. B. Lee, the member for West Maitland, Mr. Smith informs us, was in Melbourne when the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For the first time within our recollection, we have had to chronicle the occurrence, from apparently the same flooding rain-storm, of very heavy floods in the Hunter (the highest since…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We gather from the Bathurst and Dubbo papers the conclusion that although the Macquarie River country has been flooded on this occasion, yet it has had less than the Hunter of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Thomas Crew, late of West Maitland, but now living in Araluen, sends us (dated Araluen, April 26) the following particulars relating to the recent flood in Araluen:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE distinct step was gained through the meeting on Monday night. There was a clear expression of public opinion in favour of local taxation to defray the cost of flood prevention…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday morning a deputation appointed at a public meeting held in West Maitland, on Monday evening, the 2nd May, had an interview with the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—When reading the report of the flood news, in your valuable paper of Thursday's issue, of the 28th April, I observed some remarks therein whioh I have no doubt allude to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday morning, the 4th instant, pursuant to notice, a meeting of the General Committee of the Flood Relief Fund was held in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce, Sydney Exchange,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I commenced my last to you with a line from the Ancient Mariner; that line would be more suitable to my present communication, for we have had a fearful flood: the largest ever known…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wagga Wagga Express, of the 4th May, contains full details of the flood which submerged the town and adjacent country on Wednesday, and Thursday, the 27th and 28th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are favoured by a mercantile house in Maitland with the following extracts from a letter they have received from Baradine, dated May 5th. The Baradine Creek is a tributary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE cannot gather much encouragement from the reports of the interviews between deputations from Maitland with Mr. Cowper on Wednesday and with Mr. Sutherland on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Another knock has come to our door, and louder than ever. What is to be the end of all this? Is the hand of Providence knocking louder and louder, in order to rouse the torpid,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MAN DNOWNED NEAR BEREDA.—Last week a man named Edward Carey, better known as "Old Ned the Mailman," was drowned in the Marthaguy Creek. It seems he was attempting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We had scarcely recovered the inconvenience of a former flood, than it pleased Providence to visit us with another, the like of which was never witnessod in Coonamble since its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Very few accounts of the floods beyond Dubbo are yet to hand. The Castlereagh has been a banker, and the town of Coonamble was under water. At Merrigal, on the Marthaguy, there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The sea of backwater viaible after a flood in the direction of West Maitland, from the front of the East Maitland Court-house, is gradually lessening in its dimensions, revealing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—In looking through the papers for these two months past, I have been most horrified in reading of the loss of life and property in the lowland districts of New South Wales, but…
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