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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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The China mail, arrived at Sun Francisco, brings Extelligence of terrible storms which had occurred in China and off the Japanese coast. At…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is morning once more on the noble river, and the bright, wintry sun is sending his level beams over and along the waters of the German Ocean, and flooding with a golden glory the white walls…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There seems little doubt, now that telegraphic information is available from the northern parts of the colony, that the cyclonic storm of Saturday and Sunday first struck the Australian coast about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Across the zigzag line of hills That walls the verdant valley in, The rumble of the thunder mills With muttering, fast-increasing din…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad news comes from Queensland, as the result of the floods, which has caused great destruction to property and loss of life. Maryborough is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A REPORT from Ipswich states :— Four children of Mr. Peter Jackson the well-known engine-driver on the southern and western railway line,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EXTENSIVE and destructive floods have occurred in Queensland. Telegrams from Toowoomba on Saturday stated Owing to the incessant rai[?] the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE following telegram has been received from Bundaberg at 10 a.m. The first Maryborough train from the scene of the flood arrived this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday forenoon we received from our Sydney telegraphic agents, Greville's Telegram Co., some particulars of the great flood in Brisbane, which we put forth in the form of an extra. The Sydney…
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →We take from Thursday's Echo the following account of the flood in Brisbane:— Brisbane, Thursday. Authentic returns thus far show that at least 12…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MAITLAND folk can nurture a genuine sympathy with the sufferers by floods in Queensland. For they are liable to suffering from a similar calamity. Though indeed our people…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News from Brisbane state that the water is 40 feet in the Courier office, and 35 feet in Stanley-street, South Brisbane. Many large shops and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I note by your issue of Saturday last that a meeting is convened to assist those who have suffered by the last unprecedented floods in Queensland. All honor to those who signed the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grafton, Saturday, 12.30 p.m.—Over an inch of rain fell last night, and heavy showers have fallen all this morning. The weather is squally from the south-east. All the upper tributaries of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After two or three days' comparatively fine weather, rain began to fall again on Friday in and around Brisbane. Several showers fell in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE meeting held in the Town Hall, Sydney, on Tuesday night to initiate a subscription in aid of the sufferets by the floods in Queensland, has set an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday evening a public meeting called by the Mayor in response to a numerously and influentially signed requisition, was held in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One hundred and sixty-three points of rain fell last night, and 403 since 9 this morning. The river is 3ft. over the decking of the public wharf, and is rising rapidly. A floods is certain. It is still…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Collins, M.L.A., received a telegram from the Walgett progress committee last evening relative to the appeaching flood. In the telegram it was stated that the Barwon was nearly 39ft. high and…
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