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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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Although the interruption in the running of the railway trains renders it impossible to get as much as usual of information from up the district, and from beyond the Liverpool Range, yet what we have heard gives rise to the belief that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is once more our sorrowful duty to chronicle a disastrous overflow of the water-courses of the district, and although the losses caused thereby are not, fortunately, by any means so ruinous as was at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cassils is not a very old township, being in existence only about 35 years; still it possesses an "oldest inhabitant," and that individual states, no doubt with truth, that he never witnessed such a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are anxiously looking out for the arrival of the mail: we have had none from Maitland since the flood. Although we have suffered considerably, still our loss must be light in comparison with those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since we wrote last the water has been receding steadily both from the river and the back lands. As it goes it leaves behind it everywhere scenes of wreck and desolation. The destruction of fences…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FLOOD IN THE TALBRAGAR.—A great quantity of rain must have fallen at the head of the Talbragar, for on Monday that river reached a greater height than ever before known. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The incessant rains that have continued in this part of the country for nearly three weeks have risen the Castlereagh River and Coonamble Creek to a considerable height, overflowing their banks for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday evening, pursuant to adjournment, this Committee met at Fuilford's Family Hotel, West Maitland, to receive the report of the Rev. J. K. Thackeray, who had been deputed to attend a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Never since that eventful year of floods (1864), have the residents of this immediate neighbourhood been placed in such bodily fear, from the superabundance of the watery elements. The eagerness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday evening, the 23rd ultimo, a mass of dull, leaden-coloured clouds rolled up from the southward, and commenced discharging their contents steadily and coplously. Throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The correspondent of the Narrabri Herald writes on the 27th January:—The late rains having rendered a postponement of the races, which were to have been run on Anniversary Day, imperative,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following additional particulars, relative to the late disastrous gale are from the Rockhampton Bulletin of January 26:— Captain Harry Hirst, of the s. s. Tinonee, reports…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The most violent tempest ever seen on Peak Downs passed over the district on Thursday afternoon. Most people remarked the warmth and closeness of the previous night, and especially the curious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Adelaide Observer of the 24th January publishes accounts of recent floods in different parts of South Australia, from which we take the following:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After a stoppage of fifteen days, the overdue Namoi mails arrived in Walgett on Saturday, the 7th instant. The latest date was the Mercury of the 31st ultimo, so we had news eight days old as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the Evening Star, of Feb. 9, of which our Sydney correspondent has sent us a copy, we gather the following particulars of a great and destructive gale which occurred in Auckland, New Zealand, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Peak Downs Telegram of Feb 11 gives some further particulars of the extensive damages done by the furious cyclone, or hurricane, which swept over that part of Queensland a few weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A succession of severe storms from the south passed over the city on Sunday morning, and were accompanied by heavy torrents of rain, which cut up the streets of the city to a considerable extent,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the East Maitland Flood Relief Committee was held in the Council Chamber, Mechanics' Institute, East Maitland, on Tuesday afternoon. There were present:—Mr. James…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few days ago the Mayor of Morpeth (J. Keating, Esq.) received from Mr. Piddington, treasurer of the Central Flood Relief Committee in Sydney, a draft for £150 towards the relief…
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