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187 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 10
THE river has fallen three feet since Monday last, and sixteen feet from its highest, at twelve o'clock yesterday, by measurement taken at the back of Messrs. Wolfe and Gorrick's with a two-foot rule…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THOUGH there has been nothing in the career of Mr Flood to attract special attention, few men in New South Wales have pursued a course in public life more useful and honourable. If there is any meaning in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The people of this district will long remember the year 1857 for the succession of heavy floods which it has witnessed. Since the harvest of 1856 we have had no less than four floods of considerable magnitude, besides…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The river since my last communication has fallen very rapidly and the back water is running off into the river. Most of those flooded out have returned to their houses, although their situation is very uncomfortable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—In the EMPIRE of the 1st instant appeared a letter from the Rev. Dean Lynch, appealing to the sympathetic and charitable inhabitants of Sydney in favour of the "poor and dejected sufferers" of the Hunter River District. Those who are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE river appears still to be filling at an average rate of about a foot and a-half per day, the measured mark at Messrs. Wolfe and Gorrick's yesterday showing nineteen feet fall from the highest point, or three more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held at the School of Arts, on Thursday afternoon, pursuant to advertisement; Mr. Green in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday not a few persons began to entertain fears of a third flood, based on the belief that very little rain, now that the country is so thoroughly saturated, and all the gollies and creeks, and lagoons, are more or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of gentlemen was called by advertisement yesterday, at the office of his Worship the Mayor, to consider the best means of raising a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations of the Hunter. In…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the Flood Relief Committee was held, pursuant to advertisement, at the School of Arts, on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. P. Green in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held, pursuant to advertisement, at the School of Arts, on Tuesday afternoon—Mr. P. Green in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A correspondent sends us the following brief note of the losses by the flood at Yengo Creek, Wollombi. "Great destruction occurred here by the flood to both grain and fencing. Edward Readen lost a great deal of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held at the School of Arts, on Thursday afternoon. Mr. P. Green in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting, convened by the police magistrate, in response to a respectably signed requisition, is to be held in West Maitland to-morrow afternoon, " for the purpose of considering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The impossibility of obtaining anything like a accurate account of the damage done to this district by the flood which came upon us on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 28th and 29th (in consequence of the awful…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another account of sad losses by the fearful flood in the Cookfighter has reached us. Our agent, Mr. M. Ward, writes:— "I am sorry I have to inform you that we have had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JULY 21.—Woe upon woe! Another inundation has visited our unhappy district, which promises to be more fearful and of greater magnitude than the former. The rain commenced yesterday morning (Thursday)—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FRIDAY EVENING.—For the last forty hours it has been blowing a very severe gale of wind, varying from E.N.E. to E.S.E., accompanied with heavy rain. Passenger communication by railway with Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting, convened by the Police Magistrate, in accordance with a requisition signed by a number of influential inhabitants of East and West Maitland, was held at the School of Arts, on Tuesday, for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday last, we were visited by squar[?]s and storms from the north-west. A heavy storm of hailstones followed, succeded by copious showers during the night. On Wednesday the rain fell in torrents for…
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