Gales, Inundations, and Great Snowstorm
Seldom has the commencement of a new year been morn noted by a dismal record of wrecks on our coasts, and of founderings in the deep seas, than that of the present year…
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Floods & storms, 1866
8 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
The Law of Storms
It is assumed, if not proved, by some philosophers that, supposing the universe were at the first filled with a chaotic mass of atoms (it may be in a gaseous state), all of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gale on Sunday Last
WRECK OF THE SCHOONERS ORIENT AND COMET. The first, whatmay be called, severe gale, since the commencement of the present winter, visited this port on Sunday last. It is seldom…
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On Wednesday evening the committee appointed some two years ago to collect subscriptions and forward them to the Central Flood Relief Committee in West Maitland held a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fresh in the Hunter, and Flood at Dagworth
The rain which set in during the carly part of last week continued at intervals until Saturday morning, from which time until midnight of Sunday the weather was clear…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest News. West Maitland, Friday, 6.20 p.m. Flood in the Hunter
The Hunter is about eighteen feet above its usual level. Most of the low lands are inundated already. The residents of the Horse Shoe Bend are shifting, as the river is expected…
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The weather in this locality had been most clement for the last couple of weeks until Wednesday the 11th instant, when we were visited with very heavy rain which lasted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. A. Flood on Converting the Barracks Into a Lunatic Asylum
The following are extracts from the letter of Mr. Alexander Flood, addressed to the chairman of the public meeting held on Wednesday evening last, at the Court-house. The letter, it will…
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