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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1866

9 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Terrible Storm at Hull

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 March 1866 · page 3

A dreadful accident occured at Hull. An immense building, several stories high, was blown down by the storm, and several smaller houses were absolutely buried beneath…

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The Gale at Portsmouth

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 April 1866 · page 4

THE effects of the gale that raged at Portsmouth during Sunday are painfully visible. At Southsea ruins are strewed about on every side, part of the town was flooded, and but…

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Violent Gale in London

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 April 1866 · page 4

A fearful gale from the S.S.W. burst over London on Sunday morning, and continued to blow throughout the day in gusts more violent than any we have experienced even in…

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The Flood—still Later

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 July 1866 · page 1

A few more particulars of this disastrous visitation have reached us. At the Upper Manning, we understand Mr. Robert Bryant was obliged to leave his…

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Further Particulars of the Flood

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 July 1866 · page 1

SINCE the foregoing was in type, we have obtained the additional information now subjoined. First of all we may mention a dreadful…

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The Flood of Friday-first Notice

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 July 1866 · page 1

IT has pleased the Almighty Disposer of human events, to visit the Manning with the most fearful display of His power it has ever been our lot to witness. A week ago, people…

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Redbank—the Flood

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 July 1866 · page 2

THE flood is the whole talk of the day. The damage is not so much as might be expected. Everyone has lost a little. The greatest loss is that of Mr. James Gordon. He…

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Correspondence. the Flood Down the River (To the Editor of the Manning River News.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 July 1866 · page 2

SIR,—The effects (at different points on the river) of such a flood as the one we have unhappily experienced within the last few days are, I think, invested with a sort of…

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Later From Port Macquarie— the Flood

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 July 1866 · page 2

SINCE my hurried report of the 13th instant, the heavy rain has ceased, but we are still without the overland mails from Sydney— the Manning, Maitland, Macleay, &c. Mr…

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