Floods in the Hunter
There have been great floods in the northern districts during the past week, as may be gathered from the following telegrams to the Empire:—…
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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms
15 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
There have been great floods in the northern districts during the past week, as may be gathered from the following telegrams to the Empire:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WEST MAITLAND.—On the evening of Saturday the overflow of the river continued pouring across High street from opposite Mr. Chivers’…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UPWARDS of four years have elapsed since it has been our painful duty to record such a flood as has been experienced in this district during the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heavy rains reported last week to have fallen in other parts of the colony, visited us last Saturday and Sunday, causing a high fresh in the river. The water rose rapidly at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I dare say that from the various reports you are doubtless receiving from surrounding districts, you are led to exclaim, with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner,—"Water, water,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SUNDAY last witnessed the highest flood yet known in the district of Goulburn. Thursday was beautifully [?] on Friday morning rain commenced, and continued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AMIDST redundant hopes and bright anticipation as regards the pr[?]ects of the Valley, we published our last issue. For months have the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Give freely, ye who have to spare Of luxuries this world affords; For bitter want and dread despair Now frown upon the poor's abodes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PURSUANT to advertisement a meeting was held at Mr. Kingsland’s last night, T. L. Crommelin, Esq., P.M., being voted to the chair. He having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RAIN, steady, heavy, and continuous, for a period of thirty hours, fell in this district on Thursday and Friday last, causing a rapid rise in the rivers, and another and more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE rain which commenced during Wednesday night fell so heavily and continuously the following day that sheets of water began to rush down every channel in and about the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have been visited by another flood. Though at the time of writing the waters are about four feet lower than on the 21st of last month when they reached a point never before…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT commenced raining again in Sydney on Tuesday night, and continued gently with occasional intermissions, and without much wind, until Thursday evening, when it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is extracted from "Flanagan's History of New South Wales:"—"After a drought—in March, 1799, the Hawkesbury rose 50 feet; one man was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE calamity—one from which the Macleay will not recover for some time—if it recover from it at all—visited the district last week The loss of property is beyond…
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