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187 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 10
The Maitland Committee for the relief of sufferers by the late disastrous flood feel themselves imperatively called on, at the present stage of their labours, to put forth a plain but forcible representation of the aspect which affairs have assumed, since the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On the day previous to the departure of the European, we were visited in Sydney by one of the harviest storms of wind and rain ever experienced here. It was found in a few days after, that the storm had extended over a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting will be held at St. Mary's, on Sunday evening next, for the purpose of raising pecuniary assistance for these unfortunate persons. The following correspondence is explained by stating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some enquiry having been instituted as to the extent of the damage done by the late floods in the neighbourhood of Scone, and whether any assistance would be required by the sufferers, the following letter in reply…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—I was much gratified with the perusal of Mr. G. B. White's letter in the Maitland Mercury, relative to the late disastrous floods on the Hunter; but if my memory is not deficient, he advocated different views…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR publication of this day contains several communications referring to the heavy gales that have lately visited the shores; but not much damage is reported, except in one instance. That exception, however, is of a most painful and d stressing kind. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN the early part of this month, a letter on the above subject, written by Mr. G., Boyle Whyte, late senior surveyor of the Survey Department of New South Wales, was published in the Mercury. Mr. Whyte, it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday last there was a heavy hall storm in the neighbourhood of Cardross, the estate of Mr. Kinghorne. A great deal of rain fell about Goulburn on the same day, accompanied by some heavy peols…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I. We live in a time of sorrow, A time of doubt and storm, When the thunder-clouds bang heavy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The rain which set in on Monday morning continued to fall throughout the day, night, and yesterday up to 5 o'clock in the evening, when there was a lull both in the wind and rain. The storm has been a very violent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE weather in Sydney on Sunday night became more stormy, and increased on Monday, raining without intermission all the day. From midnight up to daylight yesterday morning, the storm, accompanied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the whole of Monday and yesterday this port was visited by one of the severest easterly gales remembered for some years past, accompanied with heavy and incessant rains. Casualties along the coast were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is with great regret we have to announce the unpleasing intelligence that the Hawkesbury has again overflowed its banks, and there is every appearance of an inundation, second only to that which lately visited…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →INTELLIGENCE reached Sydney yesterday that Maitland had been visited by another flood. The steamers report a rise in the river of eighteen, inches higher than the last. The following letter is from Mr. R. Blair,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scarcely have we recovered from the effects of the first flood, already fully reported, when a second has visited us, threatening still more disastrous consequences. We had calculated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have again been visited by frightful weather. On Sunday night it came on to rain, and continued during Monday, the wind blowing very hard from the eastward; during the whole of Monday night the rain poured down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—Since writing this afternoon, the rain has ceased, though apparently only for a while, as the sky is still charged with heavy black clouds, flying fitfully above us. The waters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—As it has pleased an all wise and merciful Providence to visit the Hunter River district with a second disastrous flood, and thus cast increased misery and desolation over the face of the country, I venture…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[?]THER, and it is feared it will prove the most [?]us of all the Hunter floods of 1857, is now [?]ing through the Valley of the Hunter. At the [?] of writing this portion of our report, noon on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—As it has pleased an all-wise and merciful Providence to visit the Hunter River District with a second disastrous flood, and thus cast increased misery and desolation over the face of the country, I venture to…
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