The Late Flood
Although the late flood has been sufficiently destructive, it is thought that loss of crops and produce in this district will not be so great as was feared a few days since. In…
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Floods & storms, 1879
64 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
Original Correspondence. East Maitland Flood Boats. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In Thursday's issue of your journal I notice, in your report of the East Maitland Borough Council's business, that a letter had been presented by Mr. Bining, asking payment on account of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Original Correspondence. East Maitland Flood Boats. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In answer to Mr. John Ferry's letter in Tuesday's issue, allow me to state why I applied for payment for their services (Messrs. Farry and Cook). On leaving the boat on Sunday morning, Farry asked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The East Maitland Flood Boats. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—I was surprised in your issue to-day to notice that Mr. Bining had the presumption to use my name in connection with the incorrect statement which he raised to defend himself against the just…
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SIR,—In to-day's issue of your journal I notice that Mr. Bining writes to justify the public on the point of asking payment on my account, and instead of raising himself, he plunges deeper into the mire…
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London, July 21.—The weather for the past three days has been exceedingly boisterous all over these islands. Heavy rain commenced to fall late on Saturday, and was followed by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposed Flood Cutting on the Murrumbidgee. (From the Albury Banner.) the Murrumbidgee River and Box Creek Junction Canal
The proprietor of Coonong has, with his famous spirit of enterprise, projected a scheme for carrying off the surplus flood waters of the Murrumbidgee River, and he purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Flood in the Hawkesbury. Unprecedented Rainfall. [Greville's Telegram to "Mercury."]] Wednesday evening, received 8.0
There is a heavy flood in the Hawkesbury. There has been an extraordinary fall of rain since Monday last. Yesterday morning the downpour was incessant, and during last night the rain came down with…
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One of the heaviest rainstorms of late years fell in Maitland on Tuesday night. It had rained in moderate showers part of Tuesday, and soon after sundown the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gale along the Coast. (Newcastle Pilot, thursday Morning.)
The weather prevented the City of Brisbane leaving Newcastle on Tuesday night, and it was hardly expected that there would be any departures from Sydney that night,…
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We have happily escaped a flood on this occasion, but it was a close one. Had the heavy rain which fell about Maitland, and apparently also about the Wollombi and at Jerry's Plains, been more general…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Weather ano the Floods. (S. M. Herald of Thursday.)
The heavy north-easterly gale, [?]hich has been blowing for the past two or three [?]ays, and the heavy downpo[?]r of rain which has fallen with scarcely any intermission during the sa[?] period 0f…
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THERE is a heavy flood in the Hawkesbury. There has been an extraordinary fall of rain since Monday last. Yesterday morning the downpour was incessant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Rains anti Floods at Mudgee. (From the Western Post, September 12.)
On last Tuesday and Wednesday we had the heaviest and most constant rains here that have fallen this season, resulting in big floods. Lawson's Creek overflowed its banks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weather and the Floods at Bathurst. (From the Bathurst Times, Sept. 17.)
Probably more rain has descended in the district within the past week or ten days, than ever fell before during a similar period of the year. The unusual height of the Macquarie…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Frightful Storm
As we have already learnt, a very destructive storm, of the tornado kind, broke on the northern part of the United States on July 16, and caused very great devastation…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Flood at Wagga Wagga. (From the Wagga Wagga E[?]press, Sept. 24.)
At an early hour on Saturday morning there were many anxious people in Fitzmauricestreet watching the rise in the river, but fortunately there was less ground for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destructive Thunderstorms in England
A very severe thunderstorm fell upon the Southern, Eastern, and Midland parts of England on Saturday night and Sunday morning, August 2 and 3. In a house at…
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THE Standard of August 6th publishes an account of a terrible storm that swept over England on the previous Saturday, with comments thereon, from which we…
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St. John, New-Brunswick, Aug. 11.—An extra edition of the Moniteur Acadien contains the following particulars of the great storm at Buctouche:…
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