The Flood in the Hunter
We continue to supply totes about the floods, compiled after observation by our reporters:— As the waters recede the devastation caused by the flood is more visible. In addition to places we…
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Floods & storms, 1893
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The Late Flood at Aberdeen. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—I shall deem it a great favour if, on behalf of my family and friends, you will allow me through the columns of your paper to tender my sincerest thanks to Mr. J. White and others for the kindness shown us during the heavy rain on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sworn to No Master, of No Sect Am I. Be Just and Fear Not. The Singleton Argus. Saturday, March 18th, 1893. Flood Relief Funds
The proceedings at the final meeting of the Committee in connection with the Queensland Flood Relief Funds, which are reported elsewhere, furnish…
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conclusion of the meeting of the committee of the Queensland Flood Relief Fund, reported in another Mr A. J. Gould,…
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The best advise we can offer every good woman in this district, who is at present wasting her energies vainly endeavouring to make home look…
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A MEETING of the committee of the Queensland Flood -Belief Fiind was held in the Oddfellows Hall on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recent Floods the Water. [?]Ars of Damage. Argus Special
[?] dition of the ARGUS Monday afternoon last a great demand, that [?]mber of papers printed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods. Relief Oe the Sufferers— Action in Soone
IN response to advertisement, a meeting was held at the Willow Tree Hotel on Saturday night last, for the purpose of indeavoring to arrange a cricket match…
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SIR,—Now that we can collect our ideas we are beginning to look for the cause of the late unprecedented flood. I believe it will be found in the fact of the Goulbu[?] and the Upper Hunter rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Original Correspondence. Floods in the Hunter. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—At such a time of disaster and desolation as this flood brings to Maitland, I trust it may not be considered unseemly for me (though an unknown individual to the public) to write on this fearful…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →N. S. W. Floods Relief Fund. (Herald.)
A number of additional subscriptions to the N.S.W. floods fund were received on Saturday by the hon. treasurers at the Town Hall, Sydney. Amongst these were 100 guineas from the Bank of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. Flood Relief Abused. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Every right-minded person must sympathise heartily with those poor people who have lost their little all in the calamity which has just befallen the Hunter River district, as well as with…
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As the flood waters are gradually retiring from the different streets and low lands, the scene of desolation presented is a very deplorable one. During the last few days, as the houses are…
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The following extracts from the log book of the s.s. Maitland, whilst anchored at Morpeth from 8th to 13th March, 1893, have been forwarded for publication:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sworn to No Master, of No Sect Am I. Be Just and Fear Not. The Singleton Argus. Wednesday, March 22nd, 1893. Flood Relief
SINGLETON has well sustained its reputation for liberality. Its people are not generally demonstrative. Indeed, persons from the outside, who,…
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A PUBLIC meeting to initiate a fund for the relief of sufferers in the town and district of Singleton by the recent flood was held in the Municipal…
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FOLLOWING is the article Brisbane Courier, of February 1893, on the necessity for discrimination in the distril…
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After the flood in the Hunter of 1889 Mr. H. C. Russell, the Government Astronomer, wrote in the following terms to the S. M. Herald. Both his own observations and his quotations from the report of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Great Hurricane and Floods In New Caledonia. (Herald.)
March has a bad name in the hurricane region of the Western Pacific. It seems always with a March cyclone that the energies of the elements are let loose among the islands with greater viciousness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood Relief Committee. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—The Provisional Flood Relief Committee has done excellent service in relieving immediate and urgent cases of distress up to the present time. But it is now high time that the Provisional…
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