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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
24 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
For the last ten or twelve years the propriety of erecting floodgates at the mouth of Wallis Creek, to prevent the inundation of Louth Park, Fishery Creek, Dagworth, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. E. O. Moriarty, Engineer-in-chief, for Harbours and Rivers, has written a report on the ab ove subject, and the same has been published by order of the Government. It has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LOSS OF THE LAURA, KETCH, AND SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE MESSENGER, SCHOONER, WITH ALL HANDS. We have just experienced, or are just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We regret to announce that, since our last issue, certain facts have transpired which lead to the inevitable conclusion that, besides the crew of the ketch supposed to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The branch steamer Alexandra, Captain Paddle, reached Glenelg Pier, at 8 a.m., to-day, after a passage of ninety-five hours; the run to the Sound occupied ninety-eight hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In reply to Mr. Weekes's question as to the survey of the valley of the Hawkesbury, in reference to floods, Mr. Owen stated that, although anxious to deal with the matter, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday last we had a few flying showers, and on Saturday morning carly a soft rain set in, which increased in weight towards eleven O'clock in the morning, and from that time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late, on Saturday evening Last, a fearful southerly gale sprung up in Newcastle and the neighbourhood, and continued to rage with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The last two or three days have, indeed, been a time to conjure up thoughts of those in danger by flood and on the ocean, and a hope that in each case there might be timely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The elaborate account we gave in our last issue of the disastrous wrecks with which the coast has been strewn, has now to be supplemented by such additional particulars as have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. Thomas Hale, Mr. Samuel Smyth, and Mr. William Speer, had an audience of the Hon. the Postmaster-General, yesterday, on the subject of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Late, on Saturday evening last, a fearful southerly gale sprung up in Newcastle and the neighbourhood, and continued to rage with unabated fury until near dark on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Windsor, May 13.—The bodies of two aged persons drowned in the late floods were discovered yesterday, on M'Donald's farm, in Pitt Town bottoms, after the water had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The last two or three days have, indeed, been a time to conjure up thoughts of those in danger by flood and on the ocean, and a hope that in caeh case there might be timely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a report, in Saturday's Herald, furnished by the special reporter of that journal, who accompanies the Commission now sitting in Maitland, to enquire into the best mode of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The first meeting of the Floods Commission for taking evidence, was held on Wednesday last, at the Northumberland Hotel, West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hunter River Floods Commission hold its third meeting for taking evidence at the Northumberland Hotel, on Friday last. Ten witnesses were examined, namely, Messrs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR-In your loading article of to-day, you scum to mako it appear that 1 am averse to Mr. Moriarty's plan of draining the Hunter. I Such is not the case ; for I believe his plan to be a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The labors of the Commission appointed by the Government to enquire as to the best mode of preventing floods in the Hunter, have been brought to a close, and from what we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With the improved drainage of the country, rain-water ia being more rapidly removed from the land. Currents, as they thus increase in volume, acquire greater velocity and force,…
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