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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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Parramatta was visited on Tuesday, between 12 and 1 o'clock, with one of the wildest and most destructive storms the inhabitants have witnessed. Its approach from the south-west…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Tuesday, Jan. 23, after 4 p.m., there was at Armidale, and extending in the form of an are about three miles South, one of the heaviest falls of rain there has been in the same…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It may seem out of time to talk about flood questions in the midst of this scorching summer weather; but in point of fact these questions can never be devoid of interest to the people of this district,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Advices from Auckland to the 11th have come to hand, and from Greymouth. A most disastrous flood had occurred at Greymouth and other places Under date, Greymouth, Feb 10, we…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have just received the following important telegram from our Sydney correspondent:— The Nubia left Galle for Sydney 22nd February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heaviest gale which has visited London for some years occurred on the morning of January 24. During the early part of the night there was almost a dead calm, with a high temperature and torrents…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damage of a serious nature, and to an extent which cannot as yet be calculated, has been done in the eastern counties of Scotland by a recent extraordinary rainfall. The flood seems to have been as great, if…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have received the following important telegram from our Sydney Correspondent:— The mail steamer arrived at Melbourne early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The North-west Settlement is stated by the Perth Gazette, May 17, to have been ravaged by a fearful hurricane and to have been nearly swept from the map of Ausralasia. Mr. Sholl, the resident…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The designs for the new floodgates at Wallis Creek, prepared by Messrs. Darley and Bewick, and now lying at the Council Chambers for the inspection of the ratepayers, are upon avery different plan to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raphael did not obtain the opportunity he sought till he had waited a week, and then, at his wit's end by her studied avoidance of him, had applied to Luke. After listening to the simple wish that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday Hobart Town, in common with a considerable portion of the colony, was visited by a most unusual storm of wind and rain. From nine different telegraphic stations we have,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From a few obliging residents of the place I was able to learn that last Monday and Tuesday were cloudy days. Wednesday morning was dark and heavy, and towards the afternoon rain set in, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Within a little room, whose one large window admitted the clear but neutral light from the north, stood a young man painting at his easel in the fading light of the closing day. A perfect quietness…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The heaviest thunderstorm known for many years, and accompanied with wind,rain, and hail, passed over Rockhampton on Monday, Nov. 11. The storm was of a rotary character, the gusts coming at first from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather in this district since our last has been of a most exceptional and undesirable character, rain being the order of both day and night, alternated with periods of oppressive heat, and its remedial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The most violent storm of wind (accompanied by a regular deluge of rain) ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitant in this district, occurred about halfpast 5 o'clock on Wednesday evening. The wind…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The rain and thunderstorm which burst over Melbourne and its vicinity yesterday morning was the most violent that has visited this locality for some years. Soon after eigbt o'clock the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intelligence has reached this place that a terrific storm of rain occurred at Cunninghame's Creek, on the Sydney Road, on last Friday afternoon, resulting, unfortunately, in the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I have waited patiently for some news to send you, and have managed to gather a little in shape of weather and floods. Speaking of the latter, our unfortunate neighbours of Inverell have just…
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