A Doctor's Pluck. Swims Flooded River
From Coonabarabran comes news of a plucky action which was performed by Dr. Noel Docker, on Saturday night last. The doctor received an urgent call to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1920
276 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 14
A Flood Message
During the heavy rains over the Hunter Valley at the end of June a good deal oi anxiety was felt as to the possibilities of a and a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood at Bourke. Bourke
The country round Bourke has definitely assumed flood appearance, similar to 1890 and 1894. From the tops of two-story buildings miles of water is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood at Bourke. Water Invades Streets. Bourne
The flood, waters reached the highest mark yesterday, registering at the weir in Bourke 3ft. under the 1890 flood. A considerable area in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bourke Floods
Reports received from Bourke early this morning by the Railway Department state that the Barwon River is falling and the there is no need for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Appalling Flood Losses. Thousands of Stock Perish
The losses of stock incurred by graziers in the north-west, as a result of the recent floods, are described as simply appalling—in cases near Wee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General News. Flood Damage
The Shire Clerk at Muswellbrook, Mr W. R. Nowland, has written to Mr W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., with regard to damage to roads and bridges by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood at Bourke. WATER 30 Miles Wide
With flood sketching on all sides, in some cases to a distance of 30 miles, the town of Bourke is now an island. At 9 a.m. on Sunday the flood waters were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ready for Shearing. Waiting Flood Subsidence. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Graziers report, that every arrange ment is ready to commence shearing as soon as the flood conditions will permit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bourke Flood Darling Falling. Rise in Other Parts. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
The latest reports state that the Darling is falling at Bourke, but rising at Collarenebri and Mogil…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliamentary Storm. Shanghai, July 27
Reuter's correspondent at Pekia, under date July 26, reports that the Pekin garrison headquarters are being prepared as the temporary residence of General…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Coastal Rain
Bodalla, with 180 points, Mourya 147 points, Bega, 133 points, Gosford 118 points, and Newcastle 115 points, were the heaviest falls of rain reported on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parliamentary Storm. Shanghai July 7
Reuter's correspondent at Pekin, under date July 26, reports that the Pekin garrison headquarters are being prepared as the temporary residence of Ceneral…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Damage
Mr. W. Cameron M.L.A., and Mr. W Bennett, M.L.A. have been officially informed that the application from Muswellbrook Shire for a grant of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ruined by the Floods. Some Stockowners in Northwest
Following is an extract from a letter by a man in the North-West to a friend at Tamivortli:—People have no idea how the water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Incident of the '93 Flood
I cannot give any account of my earliest days. I only remember being suddenly whirled away, and then—darkness Next, being pulled out of a sticky…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Darling River. "A Flood Feared."
The River Darling at Wilcannia is reported to be at 31½ feet above summeer level, and still rising, Thirtysix fooet is the critical or flood level…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Damage in Bolwarra Shire
Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., has been advised by Mr. Garlick, Under-Secretary, Local Government Department, that, pending the receipt of a report as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miss Sadie Gale
Miss Sadie Gale, who has been appearing with her mother at Ike Beck's vaudeville shows as Sadie and Gale, has been offered an engagement in America…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Repairing Flood Damage
The East Maitland Municipal Council has been advised by the Local Government Department that a special grant of £100 has been…
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