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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
131 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 7
Sir,—In the issue of the Daily Mercury of the 3rd instant a letter appeals over the signature of Samuel Porter, in which my mental qualities are criticised for the action, Mr. Porter it pleased to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The storm which passed over this district on Saturday afternoon was accompanied by a strong wind. Although little or no rain fell in Singleton, some parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Reuter's telegram states that a cyclone has passed over. Mesagne, near Brindisi, and Santa Oria, and. Medieval, Italy, causing great devastation. Many houses were wrecked. Fifty persons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great thunderstorm passed over London to-day. Several persons were killed during the storm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A GREAT thunderstorm occurred in London to-day. Several persons were killed by the lightning and the hail which fell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The proposal to establish a gigantic reservoir at Denman for the accommodation of the flood waters of the Hunter River is being advanced a further stage. This evening Mr. E. B. Price, an engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The proposal to establish a gigantic reservoir at Denman for the accommodation of the flood waters of the Hunter River is being advanced a further stage. This evening Mr. E. B. Price, an engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is reported from Durban, South Africa,, that the Woolloomooloo, from Sydney for London, has arrived there. The vessel met with exceptionally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The proposal to establish a reservoir at Denman for the impounding of the flood witters of the Hunter River is being advanced a further stage. Mr E. B. Price…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During a terriffic thunderstorm at orange this morning the occidental hotel was struck by lighting, but only slightly damaged. Much to orchards in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The damages caused by a cyclone at Leyte, Madagascar, amounted to seven and a half million france, Thousands of natives, were drowned, and Tacloban, in the Island of samar, was almost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Walsh park in the Horse shoe Bend is invested in three trustees. one is dead. The two living are Messrs. Mark winter and James Mclauchlin. The trustees have given a lease of the park to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A cyclone has destroyed half of Chitagong, a port of Bengal, 200 miles from Calcutta, and the poorer classes are homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Within a storm—roered cottage sate An aged woman, calm and still, And heard, unmoved, the angry spate Scourge, with fierce rage, the cloud—crowned hill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UNTIL some scheme is in operation for the mitigation of floods in the Hunter, with the consequent protection of thousands of pounds' worth of property now annually menaced and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN Upper Hunter correspondent writes:—"Were the waters of the Goulburn and Hunter Rivers, above where it is proposed to dam them,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A storm which passed over the colony during last night did much more damage than was at first thought. The whole of the telegraph and telephone service was disorganised. Line repairers have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE scorching heat of last Friday produced a high wind after tea in this district, folowed by heavy lightning, and 20 points of rain. The electric…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is probably no advantage in life without a drawback, and in no part of Australia would the people been more reason to ba pleased with their lot than in the Vale of the Hunter River, on account…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ELSEWHERE our Muswellbrook representative describes the site selected by Mr. Price for the great dam which is thee salient object in his scheme for mitigating floods in the…
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