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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
154 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 8
BOURKE is still safe, and hopes are entertained that the town will be saved. The water has risen three inches during the last twelve hours. Thanks to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following telegram has been received from the railway officer in charge of the duty entrusted to him by the Colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A GREAT. deal of anxiety was felt at Bourke on Thursday cencerning the state of the embankments. The position it is considered extremely dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The gallant efforts made by the citizens of Bourke to keep the water out of the town have been in vain. The day was one of alarms, but matters had threatened so long that we had almost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is possible that some of your readers may be interested by a slight sketch of the state of affairs during the continuance of the biggest thing in floods which has been seen since Noah was a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →As to the Bourke floods nothing of a startling nature has occurred so far to-day. Food was threatening to become scarce, and aldermen were going round the town in boats taking meat and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OCCASIONS of panic or calamity furnish to the philosophical mind a safe guide for a departure from broad generalisations upon human character and bring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bourke floods are still stationary. About 80 people are camped on a small sand rise two miles from Bourke and 700 others still remaining in different parts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A STEADY and unyielding struggle against the forces of nature by the inhabitants of Bourke was maintained until the last ray of hope disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the survivors of the committee appointed at a public meeting in 1867 was held on Tuesday in Mr. Rolin's office. Present—Hon. S. A. Joseph (in the chair), Sir Alfred Stephen, Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The flood water is still slowly subsiding, but it has extended over a very large tract of country, especially between the Barwon and Narran, which may be said to be one great inland sea from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LATE last Friday night, after we had gone to press, we received a wire that the Bourke dam had burst, and that there was a terrible [?] but [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is no new of importance from Bo[?]rke to-day. The water is still going down. Five hundred people have left the railway station during the past four days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament opens on Tuesday. Bubear won the boatrace on a foul. The township of Tilpe is now surrounded by water. Thousand of rabbits have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A LETTER has been received by the Minister for Works from Mr George Gordon, C.E., of Melbourne, in which he says that he has received all the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No material alteration in the condition of the inhabitants of Bourke has taken place within the last few days. If affairs have not become very much better, at least they have not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I would be obliged if you would allow me a little space in your columns in reference to the Bourke news in your issue of the 22nd inatant. He appears to have become rather mixed in his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—The river Menam in the kingdom of Siam is just such another as the Hunter River in New South Wales. The country all around Bankok, the capital, is inundated at irregular intervals;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bourke is quiet and deserted. The women and children have been removed en masse to Canvas Town, the men have gone by railway to different parts of the colony, and the houses are full of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the S. M. Herald of the 25th instant, appears a letter from a venerable settler of the Hunter River district, whose memory carries him back to the experiences of a…
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