The Recent Flood. Extensive Damage
The flood last week did extensive damage all over the district, and growing crops In all directions suffered. Round about Mitchell's and Scott's Flats the inundation caused a…
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Floods & storms, 1890
154 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 8
Grants for Repairs of Flood Damage. Singleton and South Singleton
Yesterday afternoon we received the following telegram from the Hon. A. J. Gould, member for the district, respecting grants to repair the damages caused by the…
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MR BRUCE SMITH, the Minister of Public Works, on Friday considered the advisablene's of making' grants to a number of Northern, municipalities,' so as to enable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods in Queensland. the Scene in [?] BRISBANE
The floods have gone, and the river is now about the ordinary level. Men are now elearing the mud from the house", backyards, and business premises, and disinfectants are…
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Very great distress has resulted from the late floods. Over 1000 houses were flooded in Brisbane and the immediate snburbs alone. Consequently, several thousand persons are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How to Save Maitland From Floods. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—I was very much charmed with that little story in your paper about a small boy in Holland who saved the city by placing his finger in a hole in the embankment when the sea was breaking…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Queensland. Great Destruction in Brisbane. Loss of Life. Houses Washed Away. the Town in Darkness. Railway and Telegraph Communication Stopped
BRISBANE, Tuesday (delayed by interruption of line).—The weather moderated last night, and rain ceased at intervals. It continues the same this…
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In consequence of the liability of that part of the northern railway lying between East and West Maitland, the Railway Commissioners have wisely decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News from Carroll. the Country Flooded
THE EDITOR,—Just a few lines to let you know how we are situated hero with regarded to the recent heavey rain. We are 12 miles form Gunnedah and 36…
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A DEPUTATION from West Maitland was on Wednesday afternoon introduced to the Minister for Works by Mr R. W. Thompson, M.L.A., to ask for increased…
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AT intervals of a few years the towns or Northern Queensland have all suffered more or less from the cyclonic winds which blow with terrible force in that latitude…
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"We print the following correspondence, for public information, and also an indication of the solicitude of the member for West Maitland for the welfare of the public:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Floods in Queensland. (Telegram in Herald.) Brisbane
News from Taroom, Youlba, Allora, and Mackay states that incessant rains have fallen, with every prospect of heavy floods at those places. Half of Roma is under water, twelve inches having fallen there…
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Very heavy rains and floods are reported from different parts of the country conseqnent upon the late rains. AH the low-lying suburbs of Sydney…
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A resident of West Maitland, who took a trip from Maitland to Morpeth in a boat before the rise of the water in the present fresh, has written for us the following account of the effects of the late…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Flood Prevention Proposal. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—At the present unfortunate time a few remarks [?]e the disposal of a large portion of the flood waters of your district might draw the attention of thoughtful practical men to discuss or…
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From the letter given below it will be seen that the Hon. J. N. Brunker, the member for East Maitland, has his eyes open to the wants of his electorate, and takes action for their being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in Queensland. Cyolone at Townsville. Houses Washed Awat. Briebane
A TERRIBLE cyclone has caused great destruction to property at Townsville Upwards of 20 inches of rain fell between Monday and to-day. On Monday it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Tremendous Cyclone in America. (By cable to the Herald.) London, March 28
A cyclonic storm of the most violent character last night swept over the northern portion of the State of Kentucky. In its progress lay the city of Louisville, the capital of the State, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Slight Flood at Armidale. (Armidale Express, March 28.)
On Wednesday last drizzling showers in the early part of the day changed, about noon, to a heavy and incessant downpour, causing the gullies and gutters to overflow in several places, ana the…
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