The Late Gale
By a return made up to Friday evening of the result of the gale, we find the following:—Vessels totally wrecked, 96; vessels stranded and other casualities, 530—total, 626…
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Continuance of the Great Storm
We regret it is not in our power to chronicle the cessation of the severe storm, the commencement of which we noticed in our last. So far from cessation, there has not been even a lull of more than a few hours duration from…
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On Thursday morning it commenced mining slightly, and towards night it came down in perfect torrents, and continued so all night, with a strong S.E. wind…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fearful Flood at Shoalhaven. Great Loss of Life and Property
Since my last, our district has been visited by a most severe calamity. On Wednesday evening, (February 10) the rain commenced to descend with fearful [?]ury. Thus it continued all night, and on Thursday the weather was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Flood in the Macquarie: the Bridge Severely Tested
It began to rain here early on Wednesday morning and continued with slight intermission throughout the whole day. At night the rain came down much brisker, and it was evident, from the appearance of the river on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shoalhaven Floods. Wednesday morning, 2 o'clock
We have just received from our correspondent the following communication, under date the 13th instant. I have only time to let you know that. we are all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thursday. the Floods
Mr Windeyer said he wished to bring under the notice of the House a matter which he thought concerned its character. He was informed that three members, representing Southern Districts,…
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WE are sure we need not add one word to the heart-rending appeals made to the sympathies of the people of Illawarra, in the accounts of our correspondents from Shoalhaven of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Assembly. Wednesday. Flood at Shoalhaven
Dr Lang rose and said that, with the permission of the House, he desired to put a question to the honourable the Colonial Secretary without notice—the matter being one of a most urgent nature,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Calamitous Floods All Down the South Coast
From the communications of our Correspondents, the Press, and private sources of information, we are enabled to place before our readers the following record of the most sad and serious disaster which which has ever…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Flood on the Braidwood Diggings. Upwards of Twenty Lives Lost
It is within our painful province to chronicle a series of fearful disasters which have in a variety of instanced resulted in loss of life and property, and have spread a feeling of intense gloom throughout the town and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shoalhaven. Detailed Account of Thf Great Flood. to John Garrett, Esq., M.P. (Per favor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
Dear Sir,—At the particulars of the disastrous devastation, by flood, which has laid the district in ruins and reduced a once flourishing people to absolute want, cannot Well be conveyed in a petition to Parliament, I consider…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Subsiding of the Flood.—additional Particulars
Since my last communication, the river has fallen nearly to its ordinary levels. The back swamps, however, will take many days before the superfl[?]ous water is drawn off—the only outlet being the Crookhaven, which meets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lale Disastrous Floods
On Monday next the inhabitants of this district will be called upon to sustain the reputation they have earned as one of the most liberal sections of the people of this colony. In…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods. Shoalhaven
The condition of things here is beginning to emerge from the fearful State of conclusion occasioned by the recent flood. These on the bank are busy at work repairing their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Braidwood Flood. Araluen
The Happy valley has been the scene of the greatest disaster, heart-rending in the extreme. In addition to the fearful loss of life, the destruction of property has been very great. On a recent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, the Floods
A Message was received from the Governor-General, communicating, Estimates of £3000, to assist the sufferers by the late floods. QUARTZ-CRUSHING…
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PURSUANT to announcement a public meeting was held on last Monday in the Presbyterian Church, Kiama, to adopt measures to alleviate the suffering occasioned by the late floods. The attendance, we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Shoalhaven Flood. To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury."
SIR.—I forward the enclosed, without note or comment, and trust the hint will not be thrown away. Yours, &.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods. Shoalhaven
Extract of a letter from Shoalhaven dated 21st February: "It will be evident that there has been a very heavy strain on all whose stores of flour, &c.,…
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