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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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It commenced to rain on Wednesday, Feb. 24, and continued during Thursday with slight intermission. On Friday the rain became heavier, and the river rose four feet. During Friday night there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PREACHER, who is persistent in enjoining a certain course may hope eventually to succeed by virtue of his very persistency, even if other qualities be wanting to the discourse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been kindly favored by Mr. James Lawrie and Mr. E. Kenny with an account of the fearful flood, on the 1st instant, at Eccleston and Lostock. Both accounts agree that the recent flood was the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday last a public meeting convened by the Mayor upon requisition, was held in the School of Arts, for the purpose of taking some steps to assist in relieving the sufferers by the late flood in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE regard the meeting in West Maitland on Thursday evening with peculiar pleasure. Not because arrangements were set on foot for alleviating the distress caused by the flood,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting convened by the Mayor was held in the School of Arts, West Maitland, on Thursday night, for the purpose of raising a fund for the relief of those injured by the late flood. The attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—May I trouble you to insert this letter in the Mercury, for the good of all concerned, hoping that it may assist in urging influential persons of the absolute and imperative necessity of pressing on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following letter has been received by the Mayor of West Maitland, Mr. W. H. Smith:- "To the Chairman of the Maitland Flood Relief Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Thursday last, a meeting was held in Sydney, which determined on raising a fund for the relief of the families of the seamen whose lives bad been lost in the calamitous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The very generous donation of the inhabitants of Windsor to our Flood Relief Fund has given much satisfaction, especially when it is remembered that they themselves have just suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fort Deposit, March 19 —The people seemed to become more excited as the water rose, and the crashing of the lumber rafts, &c., caused by the pressure of ice, was almost appalling, boxes, barrels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Assembly on Tuesday evening,— Scholey moved,—" 1. That there be laid upon the table of this House a return showing the amount contributed by the Goverment to West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SINCE the occurrence of the flood, at the beginning of March last, we have several times urged—unhappily without effect—some movement among the thinking men of the district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are favored by Mr. Robert Wisdom, M.L.A. for Morpeth, with copies for publication of the following letters to him from the Department of Roads and Bridges…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—May I trouble you with one more letter on the impoverishing effects of floods, and a proposed remedy for their mitigation. Experience proves that we will, perhaps yearly, be visited with these…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the conclusion of the previous meeting Mr. R. SCOBIE said there was another meeting called, with reference to the expenditure of the special grant for flood damages. He explained why the meeting had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The unsettled weather prevailing during the past week on Friday night culminated in a heavy gale, which, up to last evening, continued with almost unabated violence, and then suddenly subsided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have again the misfortune to have to report the occurrence of a flood in the Hunter River. At the time of our writing (eleven on Monday morning) the town of West Maitland has escaped, except a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Considerable measiness was felt by residents in the Hunter district, on Saturday and Sunday, in consequence of the threatning appearance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The devastations caused by floods on the Hunter having for many years been the subject of sorrowful comment, I venture to trouble you with a few scattered thoughts thereon. It is well known…
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