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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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Sir,—It is the undoubted right of man to hear and assert his opinion fearlessly on any matter; in truth, it is his birthright. And I have always affirmed, and still retain and insist…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Friday morning (says the Daily Telegraph). the clouds which lowered [?]own over the city, were charged to their [?]tmost, ami in a few [?] from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Friday morning, Feb. 12, broke on the city hot and sultry, the air being heavy and oppressive. It was plain, however, from the steady manner in which the clouds gradually banked up from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have again prevailing along the coast of Australia one of those south-easterly gales, which have so frequently of late years brought such heavy rains with them, as to cause floods in the rivers. We may…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday night last, the weather, which had previously been very unsettled, changed to steady rain, with the wind squally. On Saturday morning it was blowing almost a gale, which increased in violence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We ought to be accustemed by this time to rapid and complete changes of weather in this country, but nevertheless such a chauge as has taken place within the last week comes as an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →T[?] gloomy must take precedence of every other on a community isolated from other centres of population by a widespread, [?]tating gathering of…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →We ought to be accstomed by this time to rapid and complete changes of weather in this country, but nevertheless such a change as has taken place within the last week comes as an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ONCE more we have to se before our readers a mere Flood Extra, instead of our usual broadsheet. We have all of us very great occasion to be thankful that our share of the frightful storm that has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IN the presence of the mighty overflow which has desolated so many miles of fertile country, which has made homes scenes of wreck and horror, which has rendered ruin a household…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During tbe greater part of Tuesday, whilst the water was at its deepest in High-street, most of the balconies and upstairs windows, besides other eminences of a less comfortable character, were pretty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When we wrote on Sunday evening on the then all absorbing topic, the weather, the river had attained a height of 18 feet, and was then rising slowly. At about 9 o'clock in the evening it came to a standstill, and subsequently receded for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Notwithstanding that the gale moderated at Newcastle on Monday, it seems to have been sufficiently violent along the coast to the southward to prevent the Hunter River steamers leaving Sydney until yesterday morning, when the Coonanbara…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[Herald.]—After eight hours incessant downpour we encountered a heavy gale, the barometer falling to 29'260, the lowest figure at which it has stood for twelve years. The rain ceased at noon yesterday. Deplorable accounts are expected of losses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We ought to be accustomed by this time to rapid and complete changes of weather in this country, but nevertheless such a change as has taken place within the last week comes as an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No doubt from the telegrams which have reached you, your readers have been made acquainted with the outlines of the most destructive and fearfully devastating flood that has ever swept through the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The flood waters have subsided here very fast. The water is now drained off the principal parts of the cultivation lands, but has revealed a fearful amount of destruction to buildings,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Up to the present the intelligence of the effects of the flood in the upper parts of the district are very meagre. At Gresford we learn the flood waters were above six feet higher than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the time when our last issue was going to press, there were indications of the flood invading the editorial sanctum of our office, and seriously…
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