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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1859

2 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

The Storm of Yesterday. To the Editor of the Northern Times and Newcastle Telegraph

Northern Times · Wednesday 16 February 1859 · page 2

SIR—The storm we had yesterday (a cyclone) began to from about two o'clock, and an immense black cloud at that time hung over the Sugarloaf, and in that direction, When the hailstrom burst on the Maitlands, it…

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Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, March 9. Flooding of Wallis' Creek

Northern Times · Saturday 12 March 1859 · page 2

Mr Piddington asked the Honorable Secretary for Lands and Public Works,—"1. Whether the Government is aware that a considerable portion of the low land adjacent to Willis' Creek and Fishery Creek, Maitland…

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