Flood Items
AT Paterson the rise announced to about 45 feet, filling some of the houses from four to six feet and causing many of the inhabitants to remove. Fearful havoc was made of the…
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Floods & storms, 1867
10 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
Flood in the Hunter
SATURDAY’S Mercury gave an account of the flood, the substance of which was that the height amounted to 24 feet at Maitland but the embankments kept the water out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood on the Williams. (To the Editor the Manning River News.)
SIR,—As many parties now-residing on the Manning were old residents of die Williams, I think they would naturally wish to know how last week’s rains affected this, river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in the Olden Time. (From Bennett’s “Australian Discovery.”)
THE year 1799, was remarkable for the occurrence, for the first time within the knowledge of the settlers, of a heavy flood in the Hawkesbury. This was the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News of the Weather and the Floods. Per “Diamantina,” to Tuesday, 7Th Inst
LAST Saturday’s Braidwood Dispatch announces that the weather has at length cleared up. The Tumut Times, of Thursday, speaks of…
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Now that fuller particulars have been supplied, we find the recent floods hive been to Maitland Windsor, and the Southern districts generally, very much what the flood of July 1866 was to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood in the Macquarie.—loss of Lives
THE following particulars of the melancholy catastrophe alluded to by our Wellington correspondent have been kindly furnished to us by F. B. Suttor Esq. who held a magisterial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrific Gale. Three Pilots Boats Capsized Outside Sydney Heads. Eight Lives Lost
CAPTAIN HIXSON, Harbour Master and Superintendent of Pilots, received intelligence from the South Head, at nine o’clock (this morning) that Captain Robinson’s boat…
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MELBOURNE, from an early hour yesterday morning, presented a most dismal and uninviting aspect. The rain was falling in torrents, the wind was blowing half a gale, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of the Rangatira at Adelaide—with the English Mail, Per “Avoca.” Occupation of Rome by French Troops! Complete Defeat of the Garibaldians ! Manchester Fenians Condemned to Death ! Storm at St. Thomas—Fifty Vessels Lost ! The Island of Tortolla Submerged—Upwards of Ten, Thousand People Destroyed! Cyclone at Calcutta! Adelaide, Sunday, 1 a.m
THE A. S. N. Company’s steamer Rangatira arrived at Glenelg at 11.30 last night, the passage from the Sound occupying 109 hours She experienced head winds throughout…
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