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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
440 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 22
There is seven feet of water in the Aberdare colliery, one of the oldest and most extensive mines on the South Maitland coalfield. The works are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Late Wednesday evening the river broke across Pitnacree Road and commenced to flow in a turbulent stream through Howe's lagoon over…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Again the floodgates were called upon to withstand a severe strain. Throughout the night the pressure increased, and at about 10 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A mine disaster, on the Maitland field was narrowly averted by a stroke of fortune. On Wednesday night water broke…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Further splendid rains have fallen in the south-western portion of Queensland. Since the breaking of the drought some parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"This bottle" was put in the [?]ded river at West, Maitland on Friday. March 26, 1926, river being 31 feet high. Should this bottle be picked up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A heroic, rescue was carried out during the height of the flood on the Macquarie River. Geuric Bridge was threatened by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From a maximum height in the flood on Friday at midday, of 31½ foot, the river at Maitland had fallen on Sunday evening to 16 feet, the low rate of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A heroic resc[?]ue was carried out during the height of the flood on the Macquarie River. Gourie Bridge wag threatened by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from Dubbo on Saturday says:— Though; the flood has subsided atDubbo, Narrominc is now getting its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy rain set in again yesterday afternoon, and continued all night, two inches being registered up till 9 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Each successive flood on the Hunter, revives the threadbare problem of flood mitigation. Probably, few of those, who so lightly urge the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three thousand sneep, the properly of the estate of the late Mr Peter Ferguson, of Gulargambone Station. were going to agistment country from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great excitement, was caused at Hobart when, with a noise like thunder, the huge wall of the reservoir at West Hobart cracked and crumbled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr R. Lochin, of Railway Reserve, Wickham, found the following note in a bottle at Newcastle at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday last: "Singleton, March 25th,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The work of pumping out Aberdare colliery, which was flooded during the recent heavy rains, is progressing satisfactorily. Some difficulty was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good progress has been made in the work of dewatering the flooded portions of the Aberdare Colliery, and repairing the damage to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The flood in the Cudgegong River has deepened many of the holes, and deposited a valuable amount of sand near Rylstone. Kandos receives its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Each successive flood on the Hunter, revives the threadbare problem of flood mitigation. Probably, few of those, who so lightly urge the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. H. J. Wilkinson, an employee on Mr. P. Ernst's.farm, Tarro, has written forwarding the following flood message, Which he found in a large bottle washed,…
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