Terrific Gales
Throughout Saturday and Sunday, a heavy gale prevailed at Dover. On Sunday morning, a tremendous sea was running, and Dover Bay presented a grand picturesque appearance…
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Floods & storms, 1874
13 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
A Gale
The principal papers of November 24, report that, on Saturday and Sunday, a stormy north-westerly gale prevailed off Liverpool, and several disasters have, it is feared, been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland. Great Floods in the Hunter. Monday, 9 p.m
Great flood in the river; it rose thirty feet six inches above its usual level. The Horseshoe Bend is under water, and people are moving from all low lands. The rise is expected to be much…
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Tho river is very high here, and the country is flooded. Communication between Maitland and the Paterson is cut off…
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The valley of the Hunter is again the scene of a devastating flood, with all its attendant horrors, excepting, perhaps, that of the loss of human life. To some extent, the visitation…
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For the third time in the History of the Maitland Mercury, its ordinary publication has been interfered with by floods. On two occasions, some years apart in date, we were…
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The weather during the latter part of last week and on Saturday was wet. But during the whole time the rain was drizzly in character it took up a little during Saturday…
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THE Mercury says:—"Since we wrote last the water has been receding steadily both from the river and the back lands. As it goes it leaves behind it everywhere scenes…
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A few days since a valent gale broke over the midland and northern parts of England. At Sheffield the most serious results occurred. In Tripnett lane a chimney-stack fell, killing…
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The following particulars in detail we take from the New Zealand Herald of Monday, February 9th, 1874 :— On Monday last, one of tho most fearful…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late Telegrams. Flood Is United States. London, April 22
A disastrous inundation Las taken place in the State of Louisiana, owing to crevasses or breaches in the leaves which have been raised on the margin of the Mississippi for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed Improvement at West Maitland to Prevent Destruction of the Township by Floods. Abridged from the Mercury
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Lee, M.L.A. Mr. Burns, M.L.A.; Mr. Scholey, M.L.A; Aldermen Wolstenholme, Riley, and Falkiner (of West Maitland.) Mr. T. Owen (of West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destructive Gales and Loss of Life
At an early hour on October the 21st, England was visited by a gale which speedily rose to a violent storm, and has occasioned many serious casualties both in London and…
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