Mr. Gordon's Report on Hunter Floods
Last Saturday we printed the fuil text of Mr. Gordon's report on floods in the Hunter. Following are the two appendices to the report: APPENDIX I…
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Floods & storms, 1890
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Floods in Austria and Germany
Rain has ceased to fall in the Austrian Empire, and the waters have consequently been falling almost as rapidly as they rose. The cities of Prague, Budweis, Linz, and many others, which on…
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A VERY heavy storm was experience at Greta on Sunday night. The storm took the shape of a whirlwind. Roofs of houses, sheds, etc., were freely blown…
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Last evening a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, to consider the report of Mr. George Gordon, M.I.C.E., on the mitigation of floods in the Hunter, and to take such action in respect there to as…
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The scheme which Mr. Gordon recommends most strongly may be concisely described as follows. It is indeed difficult to fully understand without the aid of the diagrams, which are not yet published…
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On Wednesday evening a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, West Maitland, to consider the report of Mr. Geo. Gordon, M.I.C.E., on the mitigation of floods in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Mitigation of Floods in the Hunter. Meeting of the Flood Prevention Committee
At the Council Chamber, West Maitland, on Monday evening, there was assembled a representative gathering of gentlemen charged with the duty of taking steps to give effect to the resolution…
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A CONFERENCE was held at the office of the Public Works Department, Sydney, on Thursday morning, for the porpose of discussing the propesals of Mr Gordon,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Recreation Ground and Flood Refuge (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR— I ask you to be kind enough to print the following correspondence on the above subject: Largs, Dunmore, via East Mait[?]and, 29th September, 1890…
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The steamer State of Indiana, from Glasgow, which arrived at New York to-day, reported having encountered a heavy cyclone on August 31, lasting over four hours…
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Captain Jorgensen's trusty craft, the Storm King has been inspected in the last few days by many influential citizens of Sydney, including the Premier and the Mayor and aldermen. The…
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Nearly every part of the United Kingdom was visited with a disastrous gale on Thursday night and Friday and Saturday, (6th, 7th, and 8th November. There was an extraordinary number…
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A [?]RRIBLE thunderstorm swept over Gret at half-past 3 o' clock on Monday. Noting so terrible in the way of thunder has [?]en heard there for a long time,…
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A FRIGHTFUL storm passed over Deniliquin on Sunday and enormous damage has been done. The storm came from two direction, from the north and from…
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