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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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A special meeting of the General Council of this League was held at the School of Arts, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of considering the Progress Report of the Floods Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting in connection with the Hunter River District Floods Prevention League was held at Branxton on Monday evening, for the purpose of forming a branch of the League at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT will be seen clsewhere that the Council of the ploods Prevention League has decided to defer the consideration of the Commission's progress report until after the final report upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the General Council of the Hunter River Floods' Prevention League was held on Wednesday afternoon, at the School of Arts, West Maitland, for the purpose (as advertised) of finally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The usual monthly meeting of the General Council of this League was held yesterday after noon, in the committee room of the School of Arts. Present—The President, Rev. R. T…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—The Floods Prevention League having passed a resolution requesting me to urge upon the Government the great necessity for the production of the full report from the Flood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On July 26, a tremendous thunderstorm, which moved almost due south and north, broke over the metropolis. There appears to have been a preliminary outburst at Woolwich at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Melbourne Argus of the 31st ult. contains telegraphic and other reports (dated on the 29th) of the floods that have been doing a large amount of damage in varinous parts of the colony, and have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Not in the time of any black or white man now living on or near the Adelong Creek was such a fearful and rapid rise of the water ever known as took place on the afternoon of last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coleraine Albion (Victoria) gives the following detailed accounts of the local disasters by flood briefly mentioned lu a late issue of the Mercury…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Can you or any of your numerous readers inform me where this august body, consisting of president, vice, general committee, honorary secretary, and treasurer, are to be found? I have in [?]ain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the first time within our recollection (since 1842) we have now, in November, a rain-storm from the east on the Hunter, having all the characteristics of a driving, flood rain storm, except that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is the report of the Commission:— To the Right Honourable the Earl of Belmore, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Report of the Flood Commission, as published elsewhere, is discouraging in the extreme to those who have been hoping, against hope, for a project for the general be[?] of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Report of the Hunter River Floods Commission is in the hands of the people of the district, and the question now is, what shall be done with it? In some minds it will produce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our issue of Saturday we stated the fact that we were being visited with a very heavy rain storm, bearing all the characteristics of a flood rain, but we nevertheless expressed the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Council of this League held a meeting at the School of Arts yesterday afternoon. The members present were the President (Mr. G. Vindin), Mr. J. Lee, Mr. J. S. Carroll, Mr. R…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By daylight on Tuesday morning, the river had receded to 26 feet by the Belmore Bridge gauge, and continued to fall slowly all day, its current being somewhat accelerated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Washington, October 1st—In Washington much damage is done by the freshet along the river front; planking to most of the wharves has been lifted. At one, to-day, the highest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is with a sad heart I sit down to write to givo you a hasty account of the ruin and havoc which meets one's eye on every side, from one end of the river to the other, ind which is the…
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