The Thunderstorm on Sunday Last
For some weeks past, with the exception of an occasional brief shower once or twice, we have had the usual dry wintry weather of this district, the wind blowing from the west day…
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Floods & storms, 1873
37 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2
Flood at Gunnedah. (From our correspondent.) Gunnedah, Friday evening, 5.23
Maitland-street is flooded and deserted. The telegraph office is now in the court-house, Conadilly-street. No serious losses are anticipated. No mails or communication with any surrounding localities…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Rains and Floods
We take the following particulars of the rains and their results in various parts of the country from the newspapers indicated. ARMIDALE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood in the Hawkesbury. (From the Herald's Windsor correspondent.)
I regret to state that the late continuous wet weather has produced another flood of considerable dimensions. We have only had one really fine day for the last fortnight. Last week there was a freshet along…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Flood at Ipswich. (From the Queensland Times, June 19.)
One of the largest floods that has occurred for the list nine years, and which was occasioned by the incessant rain which has fallen since Sunday last, came down the Bremer on Tuesday morning list;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood at Coonamble. (From the Correspondent of the Western Post.)
We have had a fearful flood. The late ineessant rains prepared us in a measure for it. Had it not been that during the flood in 1870, a get away over Coonamble plain was made, I really believe that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood Season
Ever since June 18, 1857, the day on which, for the first time in seventeen years, the people of West Maitland saw flood water running across the streets of the town, "Waterloo Day" has with many persons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Floods on the Barwin. Walgett Inundated. the Telegraph Line Between Walgett and Bourke Submerged. Loss of 2500 SHEEP. (From our Walgett Correspondent.)
The Barwin River is now in high flood, and the present height of the water is but eighteen inches only below the highest point attained in the disastrous flood of 1864, chronicled in the Mercury just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods in Queensland. (From the Queenslander, June 28.)
On enquiry at the post-office, we learn from Captaio Wyborn that the highest point reached by the flood in the Brisbane, last week, off the port-office, was three feet ten inches above the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood at Bourke. (From the Correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch.)
Again our people are looking anxiously towards the river, and as each mail from the east and south comes in, the driver or rider is pestered with questions concerning the expected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Rain Storm.—the River
One of the features has occurred in the present rain-storm which old residents dread, is respects its influence on the river. The rain, after a partial lull on Wednesday and Thursday, re-commenced…
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The Pastoral Times (Deniliquin) says—The disasters of overlanders through the floods have been numerous and severe, as the following from Mr. Wm. Gilbert, to his brother, Mr. A. N. Gilbert, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Gale and Loss of Ships at Cape Breton. London, August 29
A terrific gale occurred off Cape Breton, an island of British North America, about sixty miles distant from Newfoundland, and forming the east entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Eighty vessels went on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. [From Our Various Correspondents.] Singleton. Flood Boats for Singleton
Some months ago the Minister for Works informed our member, Mr. W. C Browne, that the local officer of the harbours and rivers department had been instructed to build two beats for Singleton, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →West Maitland Borough Council. the Flood-gates Contract
Pursuant to resolution passed at the previous meeting, a special meeting of the Borough Council of West Maitland was held in the Council Chamber, Devonshire-street, yesterday afternoon. The object…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Severe Storm. London, December 17
A severe storm has swept over the Northern and Midland counties of England, and caused great destruction of property and loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Thunderstorm of Wednesday. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR—Being at the Scotch Creek, Miller's Forest, yesterday, during the thunderstorm that passed over that place, I witnessed a wonderful preservation from death by lightning; in its passage through a…
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