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47 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3
We have been visited by one of the severest floods that has happened since the memorable 23rd of April, 1842. On Monday evening, June 21st, it commenced to rain, with the wind from the S.W., and on Tuesday it continued to rain lightly, with the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JUNE 28. -- I beg leave to forward you a brief account of a dreadful flood we have just been visited with at Gundagai. Though the river had been rising for some days previous, it was not till late on the night of Thursday, the 24th, that any apprehensions were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE of the most fearful calamities which it has ever been our melancholy duty to record, has occurred in the district of the Murrumbidgee, the particulars of which will be found in another part…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →July 4. -- I wrote you a few hurried lines by Friday's post, informing you of the nearly total destruction of Gundagai by flood. As doubtless many of your readers are aware the township is situate on a very low ground on the Murrumbidgee River (120 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SUNDAY NIGHT. -- Intelligence has just reached me of the total destruction of the township of Wagga Wagga by flood; only five persons have been saved! Every thing is in such a state of confusion that it is utterly impossible to give particulars by this post…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JULY 6.—The most distressing intelligence reaches us from day today respecting the loss and danger of life and property by the late flood, It has been reported that a gentleman…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SUNDAY NIGHT.—Intelligence has reached me of the total destruction of the township of Wagga Wagga by flood; only five persons have been saved! Every thing is in such a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR anxiously looked-for dispatches not having come to hand, we are unable to furnish any further particulars of the calamitous visitation which has swept so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following extracts from a letter recently received by Mr. H. Osborne, M.L.C, from a correspondent near Gundagai, disclose some further interesting particulars relative to the fearful loss…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RUMOURS of a deplorable loss of life in this locality have been current for the past week in the city; and in the absence of any direct intelligence from that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Thursday, the 24th of June, the river rose rapidly, and towards evening it was getting bank-high, but those who had lived long on the river though but l[?]t[?]e of the circumstance, as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No rain had fallen since Christmas. The weather had been cold, and a clear ultramarine sky had renovated the European constitution, and delighted the white man's eye…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →EXTRACT from a private letter: "Gundagai, July 10.—You have of course ere this seen the account in the Herald of the awful flood we had here on the night of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following letters give more authentic and detailed accounts of the late floods at Gundagai than have yet been published:— Extract from a letter from the Rev. C. F…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMBN,—The confusion and disorder consequent ot the late disastrous flood on the Murrumbidgee have prevented me from corrooting, at an earlier period, the mis-statements…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have been permitted to glean the following particulars from the letter of Mr. Joshua Hughes to his sister, referred to in another place. The writer was awoke about 3 o'clock of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have been permitted to glean the following particulars from the letter of Mr. Joshua Hughes to his sister, referred to in another place:- The writer was awoke about three o'clock of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have been permi[?]ed to glean the following: particulars from the letter of Mr. Joshua Hughes to his sister, referred to in another place. The writer was awoke about 3 o'clock of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →GENTLEMEN,—We beg to state that the letter published in your journal on the 10th instant was written by Mr. H. Bingham, and signed by us without our reading the contents, when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We subjoin the following account of the late floods in the Brighton district:- This was the highest flood known here since 1828. Serious damage has been done to the low…
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