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TUMUT, January 17th.—A very fierce hurricane accompanied by lightning, visited Tumut on the afternoon of the 15th. I left the township at a leisurely pace, but soon heard the distant growl of the tempest,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE accounts from various parts of the coast, respecting the damage done during the late gales, which commenced on the evening of New Year's Day, and continued, with few intermissions, until Wednesday last, are of a very distressing character…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE seasons of 1856-1857 will be memorable in the annals of the Hunter District for repeated freshes and floods. So far as we can learn, and we have spoken to residents of thirty years' standing, a season, so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The season 1860—1857 will be memorable in the annals, of the Hunter District for repeated freshes and floods. So far as we can learn, and we have spoken to residents of thirty years' standing, a season, so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In endeavouring to ascertain the extent of the damage resulting from the overflow of the river and of the various creeks, the nature of the crops, where the land was under cultivation, prevents anything like an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINGLETON.—In your paper you say the river was bank high at Singleton, and had flooded some of the houses there. Now, the truth is the river came no nearer than within 16 or 18 feet of the top of the bank;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I would like to know if the Astronomer Royal of New South Wales is authorised to collect data of storms (cyolones) that occur in the Pacific Ocean; if so. why is it not made generally known, so that masters of vessels may know where to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE now enter upon Dr. Livingston's fourth and greatest exploratory enterprise. Having accompanied Mrs. Livingston and his children to Cape Town, a thousand miles from Kolobeng,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Freeman states that on Friday night and Saturday morning, March 20th and 21st, Dublin was visited by a storm, which for violence and duration has not been equalled since, the winter of 1849. A considerable amount…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE Freeman states that, on Friday night and Saturday morning, Dublin was visited by a storm, which for violence and duration has not been equalled since the winter of 1849. A considerable amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BY the steamer Grafton, which arrived from the Clarence lost night, a correspondent informs us that the late heavy floods in the Clarence have put a stop to land-carriage altogether. The low lands are covered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As noticed in our issue of yesterday, the fine weather with which we had been favoured for some days previously, gave place on Tuesday to a gloomy atmosphere and frequent showers of rain. There was nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A storm of rain and wind, unparalelled in the records of the colony, broke over the city shortly before midnight on Tuesday, and raged with unmitigated violence for about five hours,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It could [?]ly have been expected that the terricic h[?] which visited this coast on the night of Tuesday last, and during a portion of Wednesday, would terminate without having caused serious [?] at sea. We have already heard of the loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is my melancholy duty to record the occurrence of one of the greatest floods that have happened within the memory of the oldest resident in this district. The damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the Herald of yesterday, we published such particulars as had reached town, via Newcastle, of the devastation caused in the Hunter district by the late storm. The Maitland Mercury of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE learn that a movement will be immediately set on foot in Sydney to afford relief to the houseless sufferers on the Hunter. The accounts in the Maitland papers of Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The basin of the Hunter has just been visited by one of those wintry floods which from time to time occasion the destruction of immense masses of property, and no unfrequently cause the loss of human life. The flood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONTINUING our account of the devastating flood, from our last, we may commence by narrating the progress of the rise and fall. Although the river fell a few inches, as previously reported, on Friday morning, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We beg to direct attention to the announcement in our advertising columns of a preliminary meeting at the Royal Hotel, this afternoon, to concert measures far the relief of the…
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