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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1864

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The Flood at Windsor

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 17 June 1864 · page 4

Mr. Edward Knapp, junior, supplies the following from the Hawkesbury:—"Again has the fortile and beautiful district of Windsor been laid waste by one of the greatest…

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The Late Storm Shoal Haven. Floods:—wrecks. and Loss of Life

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 21 June 1864 · page 2

Thursday night closed in fine and starlight, giving not the slightest indication of the coming rain and storm Friday morning broke with a light drizzling rain, gradually increising throughout the day…

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Floods.—wrecks, and Loss of Life

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1864 · page 2

Thursday night closed in fine and starlight, giving not the slightest indication of the coming rain and storm. Friday morning broke with a light drizzling rain, gradually…

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Floods

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1864 · page 3

The northern telegraphic line has been interrupted near Windsor. where the water was at one time over the telegraph posts. The southern line has also been interrupted…

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Floods on the Hunter

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1864 · page 3

The new bridge at Singleton, in course of erection, has been partially swept away by the violence of the weather. Morpeth is also suffering severely…

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The Effects of the Late Storm at G[?]rringong

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 June 1864 · page 2

A correspondent linto[?]s us that the two buoys that were fixed to the mooring chain, which was laid down at Gerringong some time since at a cost fo over £160, have be[?] broke their bridles during the late…

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SHOALHAVEN. The Floods

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 June 1864 · page 2

Our district is in a very dist[?] condition. The flood on the 12th instant has [?]ght misery and sever last to many. From the head of Nav[?] at Burria, to [?] the flood has left traced…

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The Floods

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1864 · page 2

Give freely, ye who have to spare Of luxuries this world affords; For hitter want and dread despair Now frown upon the poor's abodes…

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The Floods

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1864 · page 2
Also in Illawarra Mercury

A correspondent of the Illawarra Mercury says: Our district is in a very distressed condition. The flood on the 12th instant has brought misery and severe loss…

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The Late Flood

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1864 · page 3

Much injury has been done to the railway line between East and West Maitland, and also to the embankments near the East Maitland and Morpeth junction; the…

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The Flooded Road at Shoalhaven

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 28 June 1864 · page 3

The following letter addressed to the Minister for Lands, appears in the "Empire," and as we inserted the communication to which it refers, we also give it a place in our columns:…

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District News. Kiama. Sufferers in the Flooded Districts

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 28 June 1864 · page 2

A preliminary meeting was held at the Court House, on Saturday evening, to consider the best means of affording relief to persons suffering from the late floods…

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District News. Kiama. Relief to Sufferers of the Flooded Districts

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1864 · page 2

A public meeting was held at the COurt House to-day, for the purpose of affording relief to the sufferers from the late floods throughout the colony. We observed the following gentlemen present—the Revds…

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The Floods Relief Fund

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 7 July 1864 · page 2

The following circular from the Lord Bishop of Sydney, which has been received by the Rev. J. C. Corlette, relative to the making of collections in the Episcopalian…

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The Darling Floods

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1864 · page 4

The following extract from a letter from Mr. R. Walters, who, in company with Mr. Fisher, left Echuca some weeks since for the Warrego country, has been handed to…

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The Late Calamitous Floods. (To the Editor of the Herald.)

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1864 · page 3

SIR,—With feelings of admiration, I have read the proceedings of the meeting at the Masonic Hall, for the purpose of affording relief to the sufferers by the floods;…

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The Weather and Floods

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 19 July 1864 · page 2

IT commenced mining again in Sydney on Tuesday night, and continued gently, with occaslonal intermissions, and without much wind, until Thursday evening, when it increased and fell in torrents…

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Permanent Fund for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Floods. (To the Editor of the Herald.)

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1864 · page 3

SIR,—Will you allow a space in the columns of your valuable paper to refer to a letter which appeared in issue of the Herald, signed Y. W. R., relative to a permanent…

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Disastrous Flood in the Macleay River

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 25 August 1864 · page 3

AUGUST 12TH—It is my painful task to describe a most calamitous visitation. The weather, which had been remarkably fine up to this day week, suddenly changed on…

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