These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
11 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
YESTERDAY (Friday) evening, in consequence of the non. arrival of the afternoon return train from Maitland conjecture was soon busy on the subject. On enquiry at the telegraph office we learned that the detention was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE month of February opened with unusually general weather; but before many days passed, our shores were visited by one of those terrific storms which have been of such frequent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The weather here, since Wednesday, has been fine, although on that day the sun, what little we saw of him, looked sickly and overcast. Towards evening a very brilliant rainbow was seen to rise to the northward, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We appear at Maitlaud to have had very narrow escape from a heavy flond, up to the time of writing this (Wednesdsy) mornging. The rise on Monday (as reported in Tuesday's issue) continued till it reached about eight feet hy the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is obvious that therefore no general rules which can he relied upon as trustworthy in reference to flood casualties. It It was [?]rmerly a belief of many old residents in Maitland that the Hunter here never…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE the commencement of the week, we have been visited with a continuance of exceedingly inclement and boisterous weather, heavy and continuous rains, together with strong south-easterly winds, having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our last issue we reported the progress of the flood to the hour (on Friday evening) at which we went to press (earlier than usual in consequence of the exigencies of the time.) At that hour the river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since our last we are happy to be in a position to announce the subsidence of this catastrophe. It will be remembered that, some four years since, the town of West Maitland was visited by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are happy to be able to state that the fears entertained prior to tho publication of our last issue, that this flood would attain a greater height and be more disastrous than even those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The river had gradually been going down after its alter, nate rise and fall, owing to the rains of the month or more previously, and was almost erasable, despite the incessant showers from the general unbroken state of the weather of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are glad to observe that the floods are now subsiding but although the river has fallen considerably below the level of the flood of the past week, it was still (according to the Mercury of Thursday) several feet above highwater…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →