Floods and Drought
For many weeks and even months the [?] portion of the colony has been suffering from drought. Reports from numerous districts have made their appearance in our own columns and…
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Floods & storms, 1868
22 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
Floods Again
ONCE more our columns seem doomed to be filled with terrible details of disaster by floods. Once more the cry for help from starving thousands threatens to resound throughout the land, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather and the Floods. Disastrous Flood in the Paterson and Williams. Partial Flood in the Hunter
The Maitland Mercury of yesterday says:—In ten years we have had no less than twelve storms, causing floods on the Hunters. In the previous ten years not one occurred. We trust this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods in the Country
On Saturday, the settlors living along the banks of the Nepean, South Creek, the Hawkesbury, and the Hunter, were anxiously watching the rise of the rivers, and getting everything in readiness so us to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood Storm
The recent storm seems to have fallen over a very unusual extent of country, It is a matter for thankfulness that the storm was less heavy on the Blue Mountains than at Sydney and on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Zealand. Startling Intelligence. Great Floods and Disastrous Wrecks. Fearful Destruction of Property
By the barques Camille, and Anne, which arrived in port yesterday, from New Zealand, the former from Auckland, the latter from Bluff Har-bour, we are put in possession of papers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Storm at San Francisco
San Francisco was visited by a severe storm on the evening of the 21st [?], which continued to the 23rd, causing some damage to tho shipping in the harbour, and loss of property on shore. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of the English Mail Via Suez. Important News. No More Fenian Outrages. Fenian Plot Disclosed. Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland. Death of Charles Kean. Terrific Gales and Loss of Life. Frightful Railway Accident, [?] Special Constables Sworn In
[We received the following important telegram from our Sydney telegraphic agents yesterday evening, but owing to a great pressure of business in the preparation of a heavy mail supplement-alluded to elsewhere..we were unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Plans for Floodgates at Wallis Greek
It appears that the premium offered for the beat plan far flood gates to be erected at Wallis's Creek hud the effect of attracting three competitors, whose plans and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Gates at Wallis' Creek. Meeting at West Maitland
A largely attended and influential public mooting of inhabitants of the police district of Maitland, was held on Tuesday evening, in the hull of the West Maitland School of Arts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Moriarty's Report on Floods Is the Hunter
By the c[?]of Mr. Burus we are enabled to publish, at an early peri[?]l after its completion. Mr. M[?]arty report on floods in the Hunter. It is a lengthy and able report,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Proposed Floodgates on Wallis' Creek
That the Maitland district is one of the most fertile in the whole of Australia, and that it would be one of the most productive and flourishing were it not for the floods, is a fact…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Easterly Gale
The very unsettled weather we have been having for the past week or two culminated on Sunday night and yesterday, in a strong easterly gale, which had somewhat Abated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Prevention
A writer in the [?] singing himself "Breakwater" Suggests the following novel plan for preventing the high hoods to which the vallery of the Hunter is subject. He says:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narrow Escape of the Barque Nightin Gale-chief Officer Killed
We take the following graphic account of a very narrow escape from total loss of the barque Nightingale on the New Zealand cost. The Nightingale, barque is wellknown in Newcastle, and the account will consequently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lecture on Floods and Their Prevention, at Raymond Terrace
A Lecture, on "Floods and their prevention, considered in connection with Mr. Moriarty's Report thereupon, and the Maitland Wallis' Creek Floodgate Project," was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Gale
As announced in our Thursday's impression, the weather on Wednesday last was exceedingly rough and tempestuous, the wind towards night coming on to blow with great force from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Native Lass in the Gale
This schooner, the gallant rescue of which by the steam-tug Warhawk in recorded elsewhere, experienced the full force of the severe gale which raged on Wednesday night. The Native Lass left the harbour on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Terrible Cyclone
The particulars of the late terrible hurricane, or cyclone, which passed the northern part of Haywood County, cannot all be gathered in a day; but after comparing the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Violent Storm and Loss of Life at Brisbane
A somewhat violent Storm passed over Brisbane and its neighbourhood at about two o'clock on the 9th instant. It came up from the south-west, after a very short warning had…
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