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187 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 10
Monday Morning.—Communications between this place and Maitland, by railway, are interrupted, and no intelligence was received here yesterday as to the further progress of the flood; the line beyond…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SATURDAY FORENOON.—How shall we describe the spectacle before us—so beautiful, yet so appalling? It would take the pen of a readier writer than me to depict in adequate terms the direful scene. As we arose…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A gentleman who arrived in town yesterday from the Hawkesbury district, has furnished us with the following information:— On Sunday morning the floods were at the highest on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is an old saying that misfortune seldom comes singly; and that truth has been verified in this locality within the last month. Scarcely had the inhabitants in some measure recovered from the effects of the late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HIGHER floods have, within the last two days, been experienced in Goulburn than has been the case since the year succeeding the great flood at Gundagai. On Wednesday last the sky bore portent of a coming…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PENRITH.—This district has again been visited with a fearful flood, causing the greatest alarm to exist in the minds of all as to its awful result. Numbers of the resident farmers were driven from their homes in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SATURDAY.—The Hunter River District has again been visited by a most disastrous and fearful inundation. The present flood may be regarded as the flood of the season, both on account of its magnitude, and of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 24th.—Once more we have been visited with a very severe flood, quite as high as the one on July 31st. The rain commenced on Thursday morning, and continued, with a tremendous high wind, till late on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WINDSOR, AUGUST 24TH.—The waters fell about three feet last night, about six feet altogether. They have continued falling during the day, but very slowly. They are now within a foot of the flooring of the Fitz…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The people of Maitland and the neighbourhood will become practised in flood sufferings, flood removals, and flood engineering. A flood which, at the time we write (three o'clock p.m.), promises to be the most fearful of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Monday Evening, 6 o'clock.—A brother of Mr. William Wright (who had worked his way down along the line on a rial way "trolly," with the utmost difficulty and danger, and for miles of the way…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUGUST 25TH.—The waters continue to recede from their high position but very slowly. They are now only about a couple of feet below the platform of the Fitzroy Bridge, having fallen about twenty feet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN our last issue we reported the progress of the flood up to twelve o'clock on Friday night. At or about that time, as nearly as we could judge, the river had risen to the highest level of the last inundation. Before we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the mail is just starting, I send you a few hurried lines to say that it has now (10 a.m.) been raining almost continually for the last 30 hours, and that our creeks are now overflowing their banks, with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It has rained more or less for the last two days: but during last night it came down in torrents, and although there were appearances of a rise in the river, it did not appear to be of such consequence as to concern any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The backwater was going down steadily but slowly during Tuesday. Chimney tops, roofs of houses, tops of fences, &c., were gradually to be seen showing out of the water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Ere this reaches you, there will have gone forth to the public another account of "A flood at Maitland," and no doubt it will be said that "200 houses were under water," and such like…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE backwater was going down steadily but slowly during Tuesday. Chimney tops, roofs of houses, tops of fences, &c., are now gradually to be seen showing out of the water. The voyage to East Maitland and back is attended with greater danger than…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After the usual lapse of a few weeks, the inhabitants of the Hunter River district have again been visited by a flood, which appears likely to be attended with more disastrous consequences…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scarcely has a month elapsed since the late floods when we are again visited with another of far greater magnitude. Most of the farmers in this district had began to plough the higher parts of their land, some for…
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