Heavy Rain. [By Telegraph] Sydney
The heavy rain, accompanied by strong winds, continues in Sydney…
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Floods & storms, 1899
240 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 12
A Rough Time at Sea. the Ketch Envy Survives a Great Storm. All Hope Abandoned. the Use of Oil Efficacious
Auckland (N.Z.), Wednesday afternoon. The Sydney ketch Envy, bound from Wellington of Auckland, which was supposed to have foundered in the recent gale, has arrived. When the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Rain
The coastal deluge still, continues, and this week heavier falls have been recorded than during the previous wet weeks. Already this month we have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood Problem
UNFORTUNATE occupiers of lowlands between East Maitland and Morpeth and elsewhere in the district are being called on to study anew the flood mitigation problem from the point…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather and the Floods
The high wind blowing last night had the effect of dispersing the rain clouds, and since eight o'clock last evening the weather has remained fine, though cloudy. During last evening a large crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood at Muswbllbrook. Muswellbrook
Afteroverflowing its banks at five o'clock yesterday afternoon the river's flood water quickly spread over the flat land in the west; and southern portions of the town, finding its way into the yards and around the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood in the Nepean
The flood in the Nepean has completely subsided, and train traffic has been resumed at Camden…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Prevention of Destructive Floods
SIR,-Once more this painful subject of how to prevent floods occupies the thoughts of our fellowmen, suffering by thousands from this deplorable flood, which, with ruthless destruction, is now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather and the Floods
The weather since yesterday has been fine, to-day the sun shining out warmly from an almost unclouded sky, and giving promise that the rain is at an end at last. With the conditions prevailing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in the Hunter, Paterson, and Williams
The rainy conditions that prevailed during last week continued up till Thursday evening last, when a much-desired change occurred, and yesterday the weather was comparatively fine. The…
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A good number of shop-keepers lifted Goods from the floor, or low shelves, in case the town was flooded. In this way you find rubbish stock slightly damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowning Fatalities. Sad Sequels to the Flood. Four Lives Lost
A SHOCKING double fatality occurred at .Denman on Thursday night. From the meagre particulars to hand it would appear that c boat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Coastal Rains. Several Rivers Flooded. The Hunter Valley Once-more Deluged. Fortunate escape of Singleton District
THE heavy south-castery, strom which swept the central and southern coastal districts of the colony on wednesday and Thursday night brought, heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lull Before the Boer Storm. the End of Concession
I am astounded at the precautious apathy displayed by Cape Premiers and British Ministers with I regard to Transvaal affairs, which every newspaper man and, political thinker for the last two years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Results of the Flood
The water reached its greatest height in the Hunter at Maitland on Saturday afternoon. The gauge at Belmore Bridge then registered about 32ft., although the tremendous rush of the current…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fatal Flood Accident at Denman. Recovery of One Body. the Inquest
An inquest upon the body, of Alfred Edwin Crawley, one of the victims of the flood accident which took place at Denman on Thursday last, was held at Mr. M. Doyle's hotel, in the township…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Lull Before the Boer Storm. Brigadier General Hart
The Major-General commanding the 1st Aldershot Brigade since 1897 is Arthur Fitzroy Hart, C.B. The Harts are NUmerous and distinguishes in the army. Colonel H. H. Hart, R.E,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in the Hunter. Will the Work of Prevention Be Ever Begun?
Wa have repeatedly through the columns of this journal drawn attention to the wilful procr[?]stinstion exhibited by the Government in dealing with the national task of attempting prevention or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Results of the Flood
The subsidence of the water shows that the current was most severe ut Messrs. John Vercoe's and Joseph Mudd's, just below West Maitland. At the former place the river carried away the land…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Letter for the Old Folks Far Away. FLOODS
You have head of our floods, and the destruction which they bring. But, our loss is in reality the result of vast weal'h to the colony in general. We flourish whon the inland districts are perishing…
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