The Recent Storm in Victoria
Victoria has been lately visited with un unprecedented storm and Hood, and the va-rious provincial and metropolitan journals give lengthened accounts of the visitation…
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Floods & storms, 1870
66 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 4
The Flood in Melbourne
Tho Melbourne Herald gives tho following account of the flood in the above city:- " The heat of the day was most oppressive in Melbourne, but towards half-past four…
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The following telegrams from Brisbane and Rockhampton, appear in Tuesday's S. M. Herald:— BRISBANE…
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The following progress report, by Messrs. E. O. Moriarty, J. Whitton, and W. C. Bennett, has been laid on the table of the Assembly, and printed:— "As the extended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Australian Bullock Driver. the Corrobboree and the Storm
And it bubbled and seethed, and it hissed and it roared, As when water and fire is commixed and contending; And the spray of its wrath to the welkin upsoared, As flood hurried on upon flood never ending;…
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After an interval of nearly three years, the valley of the Hunter has been again visited with a heavy flood, which is likely to do more injury to the settlers than tho inundation of 1867…
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The following telegrams in yesterday's herald, supply additional information concerning the above flood :— BRISBANE, Saturday.—There in now the…
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The Queensland Times, Report much injury to the crops, and the Nagoora cotton plantation completely under water. Normanby and Redbank Plains were also submerged, and…
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The floods form the all-absorbing topic of conversation in the Hunter River district, at the present time, and it is not at all a matter of surprise that it should be so talked about,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Southerly Gale on the Coast
On Sunday morning, Newcastle wassuddenly and unexpectedly visited with a terrific southerly gale of wind, such, indeed, as has not been experienced hero since the Cawarra was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle Chronicle Thursday, March 24, 1870. Loss and Distress From Floods
The calamitous floods with which the most fertile and the most productive portions of the Hunter River District have just been visited are sufficient to awaken feelings of…
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Since Monday evening the weather has taken a favourable turn, and the floods have consequently subsided to some extent, but not to the extent that might have been anticipated,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. the Flooded Districts. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR-It would appear that the surveyors of Now South Wales require to have now divisional areas, termed "the flooded districts," added to the present distinctions; and,…
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Yesterday morning, tho river was down to within eighteen feet of its usual level at Maitland, and was falling rapidly. The backwater commenced…
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During the past week, we have been visited with one of the most disastrous gales we have ever witnessed. For the past month there has not been twenty-four hours without…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to the Editor. the Floods at Hexham. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR—Will you be kind enough to correct an error in your issue of the 26th instant, as it ought to have been that great praise is due to Mr. G. Weakly instead of Mr. J. Hannell, as there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Floods on the Richmond River. Several Lives Lost, and Many Hundred Head of Cattle Drowned
A correspondent communicates the following disastrous account of the loss of life and property, at the Richmond River, to the Empire:—…
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The establishment, by the Government, of a code of storm signal sat Flagstaff Hill, has already rendered considerable service to the shipping interest, and the boon is, consequently,…
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IT is an incontrovertible truism, that the greater part of our public proceedings comes to naught from the wretchedly loose, impulsive, and insincere manner in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Storm Signals. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR—I should not again trouble you, but finding a mistake occurred in my letter, of Tuesday last, quite unintentionally, and as it is possible an erroneous impression may have been conveyed thereby, I feel it to…
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