The Flood Commission
The occurrence of another disastrous flood in the Hunter has again attracted public attention to the question us to whether or not it is practicable to devise any means by which…
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Floods & storms, 1870
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Another Disastrous Flood in the Hunter
After an interval of scarcely five weeks the Hunter River has been suddenly and unexpectedly visited with another calamitous flood, which has already reached a height…
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As stated in our latest telegram from West Maitland, in our last issue, the river, on Monday evening, about eleven o'clock, broke over all the embankments within the municipal boundaries…
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In addition to the account of the floods which appeared in out last issue, we take the following additional particulars from last Thursday's Mercury :—…
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The serious calamity with which many parts of the colony have just been visited, by unprecedented inundations, loudly culls for profound sympathy with those who have been thus…
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Now, that the water both in the river and upon the submerged lands about West Maitland and its suburbe has subsided, we can see more clearly the extent of the damage…
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The Shoalhaven correspondent of the S. M. Herald, furnishes the following heartrending account of the recent flood at Shoalhaven:— The highest flood ever known here has just…
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Wednesday, 27th April.—Gundagai has been visited by the greatest flood that has taken place since the disastrous inundation of June, 1852, which swept away the old…
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The Camden correspondent of the Herald, says:— "The floods having subsided in this district, we are now enabled to estimate, to some extent, our losses, which are small,…
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A public mooting, convened by the Mayor, in compliance with a requisition from a number of our leading citizens, was held in the Courthouse, on Tuesday evening, to take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle Chronicle Saturday, May 14, 1870. Flood Relief
The prompt action taken by our citizens in holding a public meeting to sympathise with and take immediate steps for raising funds to aid the general movement for the relief of those…
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Just as in 1861, we have, this year, a flood every month. In the former year we were visited with six Hoods in the six months, commencing with February, and ending with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. Landlords and Flood Relife Orators. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR—There has been a flood relief meeting in your town, attended by your wise men, who undertook to ventilate their nostrums against the poor unhappy landlords of the district. Jt would…
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The general feeling of uneasiness was considerably aggravated on Thursday, by the state of the weather. The wind was very variable, shifting from S.E. to S.W., and occasionally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. the Late Flood Relife Meeting in Newcastle. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR—I trust I will be excused for reverting to a meeting which took place, a week ago, in Newcastle, when I say that I have but just seen the report of that meeting, in the Maitland Mercury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. the Late Flood Relief Meeting at Newcastle. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR—My attention has been drawn to certain strictures—somewhat flippant and vulgar—on some remarks made by certain speakers at a flood relief meeting, held in this place, on the 12th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods, and Their Results. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR—There has been a great deal written and said about the late floods and their devastations. Some are loud in recommending the poor farmers to leave the low-lands of the Hunter for the high…
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It is now evident that there is a desire on the part of a considerable number of the Hunter River farmers to select more eligible lands for themselves than those they have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. Flood Relief Orators and Landlords. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
Sir— "My attention has been drawn to certain strictures, somewhat flippant and vulgar" (to use the language of "Vindex Castelli Novi") on my communication. He, of course, is not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. Flood Relief Orators and Their Critics. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR-Had I not known that, in ovary community, there are always a number of persons afflicted with an insanabile scribendi cacoethes, who are over on the alert to seize the smallest…
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