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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
66 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 4
Ever since the floods of last March, the river hau constantly marked some five or six feet above the low tide summer level, as shown by the gauge at Belmore Bridge, caused, as it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALTHOUGH the flood which has just taken place in the Hunter has not proved so disastrous as some of the previous inundations which occurred since March last, yet crops to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the last sven years (says the Bellinger correspondent of the Empire) the residents of the Bullinger River have shared the fate of the colonists on the not them rivers, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALTHOUGH self-reliance is undoubtedly the surest and safest source of support to communities as well as to individuals, yet we are culpably slow in learning this useful lesson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As stated in our issue of Saturday, none of our oldest inhabitants remember such very unseasonable weather as has been experienced since Tuesday evening last. Not only have we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Saturday.—It has been raining incessantly here since Wednesday, and it is feared that another flood will take place. The river is now (10.15 a.m.) several feet above the usual level…
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