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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1865

4 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

Flood Belief Fund. the Application for Relief From the Minmi Miners

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 18 January 1865 · page 4

A meeting of the Central Flood Relief Committee, appointed at a public meeting held at the Masonic Hall in July last, was held on the 13th instant, at Mort's Rooms. The…

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The Gales. Chapter of Accidents

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 24 May 1865 · page 3

The state of public feeling on the stations at the Peninsular and throughout the Port can scarcely be described, for though on several previous occasions accidents have…

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Cape of Good Hope. Tremendous Gale in Table Bay.—total Loss of the R.m.s. Athens, and Seventeen Other Vessels.—great Destruction of Life and

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 22 July 1865 · page 4

We have received per Doon, Capt. Munro, from Mauritius, a copy of the "South African Advertiser" of the May 20th, which gives full details of one of the greatest…

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Arrival of the Mail Demand of Compensation on the British by the United States Government. Preliminary Measures to Enforce the Monroe Doctrine. Notification Sent to the Emperor of the French by the American Government to Withdraw French Troops From Mexico. Federal Troops Sent Into Texas. Surrender of General Kirby Shith. Pension and Public Subscripton for Mrs. Cobden. Termination of Cotton Famine. Terrible Railway Accident. Fires and Riots at Nottingham. Gales and Wrecks on the English Coast. Great Fire in London. Dreadful Colliery Explosion. Trial of Confederate Conspirators. Fearful Distress in the South. Explosion of a Magazine at Chatanooga. the Finian Brotherhood. Fire at the Tyne Docks, Newcastle Attck on Negroes in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia. Tremendous Riots Junction of English and French Iron-clad Fleets. the Pope and the Emperor of Mexico. Insubordination of the Negroes, and Expected General Insurrection. Sydney. Friday, 3.45 p.m

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 12 August 1865 · page 2

The mail steamer Rangatira arrived at Adelaide at 11 o'clock this morning.The Queen and Royal Family are in good health The dissolution of Parliament was expected to…

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