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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
21 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
Yesterday was a sad occasion for the shipping in the Madras roads, and may be recorded as one of those rare and disastrous visitations which we are, at intervals,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our weather of late has been wet and boisterous. Wednesday was showery, and throughout the night and and during Thursday the rain was all but continuous. At times it blew with great violence, and the sea outside…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our issue of last Saturday, we gave such particulars of the flood throughout the district as we were able to gather up to the time of our going to press. We now lay before our…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Foybrook and Fulbrook were also very high, [?] we have not yet learned whether much damage was done at either of those localities. Falbrook was running o[?] Thursday at a height nearly level with the floor of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITHIN the last few days a cloud has over shadowed our city, and has darkened the homes of more than one family. Four stalwart forms, with but scant warning, have had to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The effects of last week's rain are easily recognisabl throughout the town, and in the neighbouring district disasters of more or less consequence are the general topics of conversation. The streets of the city tell an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The heavy gate which swept along our coast on the 2nd and 3rd instant, has left a Tearful record of its fatal effects. We are already in possession of particular relating to the loss of four ships, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is our disagreeable duty to chronicle the occurence of another [?] flood in the valley of the Hunter and from present appearance there is every prospect that it will be greater than any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The broken weather, which market the close of last week and the commencement of this, has been most adverse to on inquest.Commiation on all sides has been either much restired or for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Sydney, many houses in the vicinity and also in the town have suffered severely from the storm. At Watson's Bay, the fences on the high ground have been demolished. At…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Though slightly improved, our weather cannot, by any means, be called settled. Sunshine and showers alternate, and in some portions of the town the streets keep muddy. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TUESDAY, JUNE 14.— It was lamentable sight to view the wreck here. Mr. Burke's cottages had fallen in, and portions of the back of Holden's public house, also his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting, in compliance, with a requisition presented to the Mayor, took place at the Court-house last night, for the purpose of affording immediate relief to the sufferers by the late floods at Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is a report of the speeches delivered at the meeting called for the above object, which we announced as having taken place at the Court-house on Tuesday evening last, on which occasion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting has been held at West Maitland with the view of considering the [?] preventing the recurrence of an it. such as that to which the town has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In last Saturday's issue of the [?] that, on Friday, the rain in this [?] had been heavy, and, as a consequence had considerably. The rain ceased in Maitland at night of Friday, and by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Yarra Floods Commission, in Melbourne, have recommended works to the amount of £600,000, including harbour improvements. Truly this is an example to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday night a most disastrous gale set to, which continued with moro or less violence until Sunday—morning, causing the loss of several vessels along the coast, besides injury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since our last issue, we have received intelligence of the loss of two other vessels along the coast, namely, the Tybee, from this port, and the Breadalbane, at Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. D. T. Allan, the Harbour Master here, has published the following letter in reference to the recent gale:— Harbour Office, Newcastle, 4th Oct., 1864.—…
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