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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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For the third time in the history of the Maitland Mercury, its ordinary publication has been interfered with by floods. On two occasions, some years apart in date, we were compelled to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have the painful task to perform of recording a great and destructive flood in the valley of the Hunter. Those of our [?]aders to whom our last issue came—a limited number—will [?] derstand that the flood affects the printing of Mercury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME of our West Maitland subscribers have complained that. although their houses, and their part of the town, were high and dry above flood reach, and therefore "anybody" could have deliverd their papers on Tuesday, we did not deliver…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have had a heavy and incessant rain for the last twelve hours or so. with no sign ot abating. Things are beginning to wear a serious aspect, and general fears of a flood are entertained. Telegrama from Muswellbrook and Murrurundi,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Incidents of great inter [?] many very sorrowful to relate, occur on all occasions of grest fl[?] ravaging the district. We have heard rumours of several houses falling, through the ravaging power of the present flood, bat we shall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our correspondent at Gunnedah sends us the following telegram, dated Monday, twelve o'clock:— Heavy floods throughout the district. Maitland-street is partially submerged. No mails or travellers can reach here…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although the interruption in the running of the railway trains readers it impossible to get as much as usual of information from [?] the district, and from beyond the Livepool Range, yet what we have beard gives rise to the belied that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of gentlemen was convened by the Mayor (W. H. Mullen, Esq.) at Fullford's Family Hotel, to take steps for providing relief to the flooded out families, and for the alleviation of the distress prevailing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram in the S. M. Herald, dated Tamworth, Tuesday, says.—There has been an incessant rain since Saturday. Yesterday, Goonoo-Goonoo Creek came down in torrents. At this hour (5 p.m.) the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cassills, or rather the village of Dalkeith, has been visited by the highest flood by three feet known to the residents, the river being fully fifteen feet above usual level…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We learn from a gentleman (a resident of Maitland) who arrived in town yesterday morning from Merriwa, that a great flood, the heaviest ever known, swept over that place on Sunday last. The rain fell in torrents on Saturday, and continued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been visited by a flood of considerable dimensions, almost equal in extent to the one which occurred here in April, 1870, and although the water was not so high in some places as at that period, it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fearful and devastating flood visited this place on Monday, the 26th inst. The Hunter broke over the banks at one o'clock on Monday morning, and continued to rise up to twelve o'clock noon the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HEAVY RAIN STORM.—FLOOD IN THE RIVER.— For nearly two months past the weatherwise amongst us have prognosticated a heavy fall of rain, and probably a flood in the valley of the Hunter before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our supplement of this day we give a full report of the flood in the Hunter as it affected Maitland, and our various correspondents' flood news. We now add to the account such particulars and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When we sent the postscript to our last letter on Monday morning at six o'clock, announcing that the river had only naen about two and a half feet since the previous evening at ten o'clock, being then…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In our Tuesday's issue we were able to announce no more than the fact that a very great flood was anticipated in the valley of the Hunter, and the curtailed proportions of that issue were sufficient proof…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many incidents of great interest, many very sorrowful to relate, occur on all occasions of great floods ravaging the district. We have heard rumours of sereral noises falling, through the ravaging power of the present flood but we shall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We have had a heavy and incessant rain for the last twelve hours or so, with no sign of abating. Things are beginning to wear a serious aspect, and general fears of a flood are entertained. Telegrams from Muswellbrook and Murrurundi,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our correspondent at Gunnedah sends us the following telegram, dated Monday, twelve o'clock:— Heavy floods throughout the district. Maitland-street is partially submerged. No mails or travellers can reach here,…
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