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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
156 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 8
WITH a view of ascertaining what progress was being made towards resuming work at the Co-operative Colliery, our Wallsend correspondent proceeded along the new tramline…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →YESTERDAY Mr. Gordon, with Messrs. Walshe and Josephs, commenced the survey of the river Hunter between Morpeth and Maitland. Mr. Gordon has been instructed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. GORDON, the hydraulic engineeer, attended at the Morpeth Council-chamber yesterday, and took a quantity of evidence respecting the floods in the Hunter. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MR. GORDON, who has been called on to examine the Hunter River, and report as to the best means of preventing the floods in the Hunter from doing damage to property,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE breeze between Mr. Abigail and Mr. Melville in the Assembly on Thursday night was (says the Daily Telegraph) at times pretty strong…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CONSIDERABLE damage and some loss of life has been caused by a flood in the village of Johnstown, in Fulton county, in the State of New York. The people, suspecting no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The tug Eagle had a thrilling experience in towing a hopper barge from Adelaide to Melbourne. Early on the 20th, during a heavy south west gale, the tow-line parted ten miles south of Rivoli Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GOVERNOR CARRINGTON and suite were expected to arrive to-day, but did not, owing to the floods, which washed away a portion of the railway line between Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A HEAVY flood in the Murray is expected. The stream this morning was 13ft 11in above the summer level at Albury, the highest it has reached for two years. The water is now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →REPORTs are to hand of very heavy floods in the direction of Numurkah way. Whole districts are under water. There are also reports of floods in the Albury district. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HEAVY and continuous rain fell throughout on Monday at Albury, upwards of 2in being registered. The river, which previously had been falling, commenced to rise again…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Murray at Albury this morning was 14ft 7in above summer level, and rising. This is the highest level the stream has reached since 1887, when it showed a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE learn that a feasible scheme for preventing a repetition of floods in the Hunter River district by the rising and overflowing of the river is now being prepared for submitting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Murray was 15ft 3in above summer level at Albury this morning, being the highest since 1870, when it reached 16ft 4in. The flood waters are spreading in every…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Thursday.—Heavy rains accompanied by disastrous floods and storms have been experienced on the north east coast of the Atlantic The full force of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE river at Albury on Thursday afternoon rose very rapidly and large number of residents of the Albury that were flooded out if isolated through being surrounded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Friday.—Latest accounts confirm the disastrous character of the storm which have swept along the Atlantic seaboard. The gales continue with undiminished…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE river at Albury subsided somewhat during Friday night, and on Saturday morning it showed a registration of l6ft. 6in. above summer level. All fears of a further flood…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The barque Decapolis, which is well known here, arrived at Launceston from London on September 8, after a rough passage of 98 days. She left London on May 29. Captain Chandler is still in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TELEGRAM from Deniliquin this afternoon stated the river is rising rapidly, and is now 35ft 9in above summer level, having gone up 7in during last night. A rise of…
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