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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1895

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The Flood Mitigation Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1895 · page 2

ELSEWHERE will be read a report of a meeting held last night in West Maitland, to further the movement for mitigating the effects of floods in the Hunter. We are glad to say…

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The Flood Mitigation Movement. Meeting at West Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1895 · page 2

A public meeting convened by requisition to the Mayor, was held at the Town Hall, last evening, for the purpose of assisting in a general scheme for the mitigation of floods in the valley of the Hunter…

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The Flooded Area

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1895 · page 2

Allusion is made in our leading article to the data supplied to the Flood Commission respecting the range of country ravaged by floods. At this juncture republication of the report may prove of value to…

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Floods

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1895 · page 4

A meeting foe the mitigation of the effects of floods brings up many reminiscences. It is about twenty-eight years since I attended a meeting in the old theatre, on the site of which now stands a…

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Flood Mitigation Movement. Meeting at West

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 6

A public meeting convened by requisition to the Mayor, was held at the Town Hall, on Tuesday, for the purpose of assisting in a general scheme for the mitigation of floods in the valley of the…

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The Flooded Area—Oakhampton to Tomago

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 6

Allusion is made in our loading article to the data supplied to the Flood Commission respecting the range of country ravaged by floods. At this juncture republication of the report may prove of value to…

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Hunter Floods and Their Origin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 May 1895 · page 4

SIR,—The gathering of a flood is the subject upon which I now address you, and I have in my life time had some experience of how these calamities originate and how each minor affluent…

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Flood Mitigation Movement. Committee Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1895 · page 2

A meeting of the committee appointed at the public meeting held recently in West Maitland in connection with the subject of flood mitigation waft held last evening in the Town Hall. The Mayor…

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The Flood Mitigation Movement

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1895 · page 4

A BUSINESS-LIKE meeting of the West Maitland Flood Mitigation Committee was held during the week. We were not at fault, in auguring from the tone of the public…

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Flood Mitigation Movement. Committee Meeting

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1895 · page 16

A meeting of the committee appointed at the public meeting held recently in Welt Maitland in connection with the subject of flood mitigation was held on Monday evening in the Town Hall. The…

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The Flood Mitigation Movement. Conference of Councils and Committees

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1895 · page 3

A conference of the representatives of the various Municipal Councils and Committees appointed at public meetings held in connection with the flood mitigation movement in the Hunter River district,…

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The Flood Mitigation Movement. Conference of Councils and Committees

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1895 · page 13

A conference of the representatives of the various Municipal Councils and Committees appointed at public meetings held in connection with the flood mitigation movement in the Hunter Rivet district,…

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Floods in Europe

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 June 1895 · page 3

A waterspout has bust over Kobersdorf, in Germany, and caused disastrous floods for miles around. One hundred lives have been lost. Terrible floods have occurred ia Northern Hungary…

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The Eunter River Flood Prevention

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 2

THE Minister for Works has informed Mr Gillies, M.P., and Mr II. II. Brown, M.P., that Mr Price, one of the engineers of the Public Works…

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Latest News by Cable. a Fearful Cyclone in the United States

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1895 · page 5

A terrible cyclone devastated over 200 miles of country in the State of Missouri, also portion of the adjoining State of Illiuois. In Misson[?] forty-three persons were killed and damage was done to…

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Cyclone in America. Great Loss of Life [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 July 1895 · page 2

A TERRIBLE cyclone has devasted over 200 miles of country in the State of Missouri, United States, and also a portion of the adjoining State of…

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Another Great Storm in America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 July 1895 · page 3

During a destructive cyclone in the state of New Jersey, a hundred and ten houses were wrecked and forty-four persons were killed or injured by the falling ruins…

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Terrible Floods in Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 August 1895 · page 3

Terrible floods have taken place in Japan, causing an enormous amount of damage. The failure of the rice crop is likely to cause a famine in Japan…

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A Flooded Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 3

A mine in Colorado has been inundated with a great body of water. 13 lives were lost…

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Yesterday's Gale

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 September 1895 · page 2

Yesterday will long be, remembered in Singleton for its weather. Everyone thought the first day of the Show had broken all previous records for wind and…

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