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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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SIR.—Your leader in the second sheet of Saturday's Mercury was of such a desponding nature that I feel, in justice to our beneficent flood, to join issue with you. I fancy you say…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE floods in the South continue, and on Tuesday the water was running through the gardens at Brookong home station, and the surrounding country is almost entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A register is being taken of the survivors from the terrible American flood. So far only 9000 persons have been registered out of the total…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Owing to the recent rains the Basis Creek a Numurkah commenced to rise yesterday Its height is now within a shade of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most disastrous floods ever seen has just passed over the Wollombi electorate, rendering several families on the Macdonald River, St. Albans, and Webb's Creek homeless: their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—During the late flood time you very properly made mention of acts of generosity displayed by the fortunate to the distressed and homeless people. Permit me to show one instance of the other side…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, June 8.—Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded to President Harrison a message of sympathy with the American people, in the terrible calamity which has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN enquiry held concerning the bursting of the reserveir in Pennsylvania has resulted in a verdict of criminal negligence on the part of the owners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In reference to the above, which appeared in your last issue, permit me to say that, owing to a misunderstanding on the part of one of the employ[?]s, was the cause of the trouble, for immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday evening a meeting of the committee appointed at the public gathering held last week to arrange for a mass meeting of the inhabitants of the district to devise menus for the mitigation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I shall feel obliged if you will republish a letter of mine that appeared in an issue of the Maitland Mercury of September 27, 1877, I still being of an opinion that over such an extent of country…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The rain on Wednesday and during Thursday night culminated in heavy floods in various parts of the colony. At Castlemaine all the low-lying lands are submerged, and there is also a landslip on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Last evening a numerously-attended public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held in the School of Arts, West Maitland, for the purpose of taking steps for the mitigation of floods in the Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—The remark at the present unfortunate crisis is that everyone is a civil engineer in Maitland, but I feel sure that every suggestion made for saving the town is done in an earnest spirit, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Such was the interest taken in the movement that the gathering in the School of Arts, on Monday evening, for the purpose of taking steps to mitigate the effects of floods in the Hunter was the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—Very many letters are printed setting forth ideas respecting the above, and I am sure all aro deeply interested in the matter; therefore, may I be permitted to offer a suggestion also?…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I wish to make a few brief remarks on the last meeting at the Council Chambers. After reading it over carefully I cannot agree on the subject; and I think that will always be the case…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE needs bat little argument to prove that the problem of mitigating the effects of floods in the Hunter is a matter of national concern. From every point of view it must…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I trust that in all the agitation that is now taking place the claim of the Horse Shoe Bend for protection will not be overlooked. It seems to me strange that amongst the large Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the gentlemen commissioned to give effect to the resolutions passed at the gathering held on Monday evening with the object of devising means to mitigate the effects of floods in…
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