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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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SIR,—In your last issue is published a growl from an individual signing himself John Anstey. Coming from such a quarter the effusion is perhaps not worth noticing were it not that to neglect to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I notice a correspondent, John Anstey, in your issue of the 20th, trying to make himself appear a little satirical in his would-be-critiscims of our Mayor and Aldermen in the late flood. By…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rain has been falling with little cessation for the past 24 hours. The river has been steadily rising, and is now 13ft. 6in[?] over summer level, being the highest record since August, 1887, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miss Electa Peak was down on her knees before a small, old-fashioned, hair-covered trunk, with "E. P." in brass nails on one end. A musty odour came from the truuk, and the blue and white paper…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, the Minister for Works (Mr Bruce Smith) announced that in order to effect repairs to country roads damaged by the recent heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RAIN has been falling with little cessation for the past 24 hours. The river has been steadily rising, and is now 13ft 6in over summer level, being the highest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—The above heading is what we require to be carried out, if possible. On reviewing the various plans suggested at the late meeting many of them appear to lead away from the required…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—There is no doubt but the contention of Mr. Robert Scobie at the great mass meeting on Monday night—that the second resolution should not have been submitted to the meeting—was the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SAN Francisco papers to June 1 by the Maripos[?], which arrived to-day, contain some particulars of the Johnstown floods, but the full details of the disaster had not arrived when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Final arrangements in connection with the proposed interview with tho Minister of Works on the subject of the mitigation of floods in the Hunter have been perfected. The deputation will approach…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day, the deputation appointed at the late public meeting in West Maitland waited upon the Hon. Bruce Smith, Minister of Works at his office, and presented the resolution and accompanying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Following is a letter, addressed by the Government Astronomer to the Herald, which puts very clearly the danger to which West Maitland may be exposed, if effectual means be not taken to mitigate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Minister for Works promised a deputation from Maitland this morning that the most competent engineer the country could produce should report on the possibility of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALTHOUGH tbe amateur engineers who abound just now may be disappointed with Mr. Bruce Smith's answer to the deputation on Friday, practical commonsense men must admit that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday, the deputation appointed at the late public meeting in West Maitland, waited upon the Hon. Bruce Smith, Minister of Works, at his office, and presented the resoluton and accompanying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—We should thank Mr. C. H. Russell for his letter in the Herald of Tuesday lust, on rainfall, floods, and the probable ruin of West Maitland, We should also thank you for your article (though…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Minister for Works has lost no time in folfilling the promise he gave to the deputation from West Maitland on Friday, that a competent engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr G. Gordon has consented to report upon the subject of mitigating the floods in the Hunter River district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible thunderstorm, writes a Vienna correspondent, visited Austria on the night of May 17, and though the streets of Vienna were flooded and several places were st[?]uck by lightning, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The intense heat of the past few days (says a Central News Agency telegram) was followed on May 10 by a cyclonic storm, which extended from Chicago to Boston, and which created a vast…
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