The Floods. Fearful Accident and Loss of Life
The Bodalla correspondent of the Empire, writing under date the 18th instant, says:— "About daybreak, on the 10th instant, Mr. Michael Bell, well known in Sydney as a…
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Floods & storms, 1870
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Letters to the Editor. West Mailand Flood Prevention League. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR—An article having appeared in Thursday's issue of your paper, reflecting upon the gentlemen of the West Maitland Flood Prevention League, the authorship of which has been…
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SIR.—I have been an amused and interested looker-on at the gladiators who have appeared within the arena of your paper. Now, it was quite evident to all who attended the flood…
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We have had rain, more or less, ever since the 2nd March, but the last rain, about a fortnight since, which lasted sixty hours, was the dead finish, as it set all the creeks…
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SIR—In the lending article which appeared in the Mercary of the 28th of May, which rather discourages the necessity for more schemes for lessening the [?], and saving Maitland and the…
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SIR—Owing to my absence from home, I was ignorant, until my return yesterday, of the fact, that you still continue to keep your columns open to your Maitland correspondents, to pour…
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SIR—Although, no doubt, this discussion has been sufficiently protracted, yet I would ask permission to make a brief rejoinder to the "last shot" of " Vindex ;" as I have some hopes that…
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Sir.— Being a constant reader of your valuable paper, and a great loser by the Hoods, I wish to give tho public my opinion with regard to the Sydney flood commissioners, which opinion…
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Sir— I don't moan to break my engagement to avoid drawing blood. The "squeak" has been scarcely heard, if heard at all. There is plenty of allot yet in the locker, but a merciful…
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There are few things pleasanter than the trip to Newcastle and back in fine weather, or more execrable than it is in rough. I've generally had the former for my…
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SECULAR questions may be dealt with according to scriptural principles. The Bible is the fountain of the highest form of secularism; it teaches us to look upon the world as God's…
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Principles and duties involed in efforts to prevent loss and suffering by floods. "The fool foldeth his hands, and eateth his own flesh."…
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Wentworth, 17th August, 1870.—I was absent at Neilpo when the telegram arrived, seeking information about the show water and taking observations on the state of the country. Mr…
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The Victorian papers give an account of a terrific storm which passed over a great portion of that colony, on Wednesday, the 16th instant, earning disastrous effects, and loss of…
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THE commission appointed to enquire into and report respecting floods in the Hunter, have just furnished their report to His Excellency the Governor, and to both Houses of Parliament…
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Heavy floods have taken place in Victoria. Rain appears to have set in over a very large tract of country, and from almost all parts of Victoria come stories of disaster and…
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A correspondent, writing to the Australasian, from Echuca, gives the following account of the disastrous effects of the floods in that part of Llie colony:—…
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COLERAINE.—In two small cottages at the rear of an office there were two famalies, named Drummond and Laird, and being the lowest house in the town, a few very…
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The heavy rains with which we have been visited since Monday last, have not only inundated the Hunter, but also the Manning,' the Hastings, the Macleay, and the Clarence,…
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The final report of the Commission appointed in May, 1869, to enquire into and report upon the best means of mitigating or preventing the evils occasioned by floods in the…
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