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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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A terrific thunderstorm (says the Herald's correspondent) passed over Bacchurs Marsh at five o'clock on Thursday afternoon, accompanied by a phenomenal shower of hail. The hailstones were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERIFIO thunderstorm passed over, Bacchus Marsh (Vie.) at 5 o'clock on Thursday ovening, accompanied by a phenomenal shower of hail. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For nearly a week we have and to endure most oppressive weather. The atmosphere on several occasions reached within a few degrees of the century, and the close sultry state of the weather was very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The terrific gale that has swept over England, Scotland, and Ireland still continues in different parts of the three kingdoms. At Caister, a seaport…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOSE who have had the opportunity of sailing down that fairest, and probably most attractive of all the lakes with which this well-adorned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following incident (says a New York correspondent) is vouched for as having occurred during a wind storm, which recently did much damage in Elizabeth, New Jersey…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A destructive hail storm visited Penrith on Sunday. The hail increased to lumps of ice, and rain poured donw incessantly for 15 minutes. Roads and paddocks were covered. In High-street great lumps of ice…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Further particulars available (says the Herald) about the cyclone show that in places considerable damage was done to the crops and buildings outside Berrigan. It appears to…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →WHEN farmer Oak, on his way towards his humble cottage one night, struck his foot against a big toad, he know there was trouble in the wind. When, on striking a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A terrific thunderstorm (says the Herald's correspondent) passed over Bacchus Marsh at five o'clock on Thursday afternoon, 14th inst., accompanied by a phenomenal shower of hail. The hailstones were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →We were waiting for a train at a Georgia railroad station when a funnel shaped cloud appeared in the southwest, and it was remarked that a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The sailing vessel Ocean has put into the Tyne badly damaged. She reports that she encountered ten days of gales in the north Sea. Eight of her men were washed overboard off Flamberough Head,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—Flood prevention in the all-absorbing topic, and a scheme that can be carried out to prevent the flood waters of the Hunter from escaping it banks while on its way to the sea would be a blessing to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday the members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works—who took evidence in Newcastle on Saturday with reference to the effect of schemes fur the mitigation of floods in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN advertisement in another column gives instructions in reference to the visit of the the Public Works Standing Committee to Denman and Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A eyelone, followed by a tidal wave six feet high did extensive damage to shipping at Sunderland. Phenomenal tides occurred in the east and west of England. Miles of country were submerged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A sensational incident in connection with this morning's thunderstorm is reported from Pyrmont. The flag-pole situated on top of one of the towers at Winchcombe, Carson, and Company's store was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works took evidence in Newcastle on Saturday in regard to the cause and probable remedy of floods in the Hunter. The witnesses examined were Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr C. H. Dight, M.L.A., has received a letter from the secretary to the Public Works Board advising him that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public…
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