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187 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 10
It is not many days since our sympathies were excited by the misfortunes caused by the late calamitous inundations on the Hunter and Paterson, and the farmers of this district were congratulating each other upon their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Althongh we are favoured with two conflicting prophecies, one by somebody that some time in September, the 16th seems generally fixed on, a fourth flood is to occur higher than either of the preceding—and one by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. WEEKES, by the permission of the Hon. Secretary for Lands and Public Works, rose, without notice, to ask that honorable membsr a question. The last flood at Maitland had carried away about 30 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting, convened by Major Crummer in accordance with a requisition signed by the residents in the town, was held at the court-house, East Maitland, on Tuesday afternoon, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Correspondent of the Mudgee Newspaper says:— "This township and district have again been visited by immoderate rain, and a flood has thence resulted, which—great as was the last influx of water three…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →I have to record an account of a flood at Rolland's Plains, on Friday, the 21st, which rose to the height of about two feet over some parts of the cultivation land. On Wednesday night; it began to rain slightly, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reading of so many accounts of the disasters of the floods, &c., of Maitland and its environs, I began to think we were surely favoured. We have had floods certainly, but nothing serious; from the high situation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As I anticipated in my last, we have had another great flood, The river rose here four inches higher than in the June flood, and one inch higher would have brought it into our store and Mr. Thompson's inn, those being on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the whole of these two days, this port was visited by one of the severest casterly gales remembered for some years past, accompanied with heavy and incessant rain. The barque Fame became a total wreck, and the Indus was dismasted at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALTHOUGH the August flood has not reached the height of the great flood of 1820, yet it has exceeded that both in volume of water and rapidity; also it was much higher than either the June or July inundations. The three floods…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE recent floods have caused an immense growth of speculation with respect to the best modes of protecting the district from being inundated. Strangely enough all the plans yet made public embrace only the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held at the School of Arts on Tuesday afternoon; Captain Russell in the chair. The meeting had been convened by the secretary, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALTHOUGH at no great distance from Maitland, 1 presume from the impassable state of the roads, we seem to be a "terra incognita" to the Maitlanders, as in reading the various accounts of the floods, I see no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AMONG instances innumerable of meritorious conduct and stirring incident, connected with the late calamitous flood on the River Williams, the following deserve honourable mention:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Althongb at no great distance from Maitland, I presame from the impassable state of the roads, we seem to be a terra incognita to the Maitlanders, as in reading the various accounts of the floods, I see no allusion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There can be no douht that any adequate plan of flood prevention would be hailed as a great boon by the community. But in considering the merits of any such plan, not only its practicability, but the necessary…
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR—Will you allow me space in the EMPIRE TO prapund a method by which much of the evil resulting from those heavy rains so common at some seasons to all parts of the Australian colonies may be prevented,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—It may not appear feasible to lessen the damage from heavy rains by the method I propose, but it is a received opinion among geologists that rivers and springs are fed from cracks and fissures among the…
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