Heavy Rains. Record Flood at Belltrees. Tuesday night
The heavy and continuous rains which fell over the watershed of the Hunter from Sunday night or early on Monday morning, until last night, have caused the Hunter…
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Floods & storms, 1913
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Flood Messages
This morning a bottle was taken out of the river near the boatshed in the Horseshoe Bend containing a message which reads as follows: "Richmond Grove, Denman. The river is…
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As a result of the heavy rain, many of the low-lying parts of the Western Suburbs are flooded, and a good deal of damage has been done…
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The river at 10 a.m. to-day was over its banks, and the town is flooded. The river is still rising. At noon the river had reached a height of 28 1/2 feet, and then…
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After a beautifully warm, sunshiny day yesterday, a change worked up dining the evening, when the sky became overcast, and about midnight or early this morning…
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W[?]t other parts of the district are suffering from inundation by flood waters, and are to be sympathised with, Maitland is congratulating itself upon a fortunate…
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We have become so accustomed to heavy and continuous falls of rain during the past two months that no surprise was occasioned when another began on Sunday night, and…
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A meeting of teachers was held at the Superior Public School. West Maitland, on Friday, for the purpose of receiving the treasurer's balance-sheet in connection with…
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The recent heavy falls of rain in parts of the Hunter watershed. causing another rise in the river, inflicting further losses on landholders, and threatening a greater…
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During the recent rise in the Hunter River and its tributaries a number of messages in bottles were thrown into the water, and some of these have since…
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A meeting of the general committee in connection with the flood relief movement was held in the Mayor's room; Town Hall, on Saturday night. In the absence of the…
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A meeting of the Flood Mitigation Committee was held in the Mayor's Room, Town Hall, on Saturday evening, after the close of the flood relief meeting…
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Norman Melean of douglas-street Stockton picked up at No. s. jetty North stockton on Friday afternoon last a bottle containing the following flood message:—"Thrown in at…
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Councillor J. A. Niland, president of the Tarro. Shiro. Council, and a member of the executive committee, of the 'Maitland flood relief fund, has, written to the Minister of…
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The "Advocate" is in receipt of further flood messages, per medium of bottles thrown in the Upper Hunter, and picked up on the Lower…
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A Flood message of more than usually profitable nature to the finder was picked up on July 3rd by Mr. John S. A'Fadye on his farm at Narrowgut, near…
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Master J. Mitchell, son of Mr. Chas. Mitchell, of West Maitland, threw a bottle with a message in it into the flood waters during last week, and to-day received a…
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An advertisement in this issue over the signature of the hon, secretaries (Messrs. H. W. Tegg and T. A. Hill) intimates that the executive of the food relief committee in…
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Sir J. B. Aitchison, of Phoenix Park, Morpeth, writes that he and Mr Jas M'Fadyen came across bottles containing the following messages on July 3rd…
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Carlton and Abbott, at Dungog, Saturday next, mixed cattle, and fat and store pigs. Alison and Jones, Dungog, on…
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