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135 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 7
SIR,—Allow us, the undersigned inhabitants of Botany, to call the attention of the Municipal Council of the city of Sydney, through the medium of your valuable journal, to the imperfect construction of the Waterworks. The sluices and water weirs…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—We have had a terrible flood here, with loss of life—houses being swept away wholesale; in fact, every farm and cultivation being covered with the deluging element. Hundreds will be rendered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain Fletcher, of the Mimosa, armed from Ulladulla last night, informs us that the settlers to the southward had suffered very much from the floods, and that at Ulladulla many had lost their all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE most extraordinary flood has taken place in the river Nepean in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant of this district. No rain hating fallen during the week, the residents on the level lands near the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →You are doubtless in receipt of the intelligence of the awful and disastrous floods which have arisen in this district. Being an eye-witness of this fearful calamity, I concluded a somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FEBRUARY 14.—A frightful flood is now subsiding. The whole of the alluvial land on both sides of the river were completely under water. Several families have had a narrow escape. Boats were employed during the greater part of Saturday conveying them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been favoured with extracts from several private letters from parties who have been eye witnesses of some one or other of the late disastrous floods, or have been sufferers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letters are handed to as for publicatlon:— "Nelligen, 14 th February, 1860. "We have had a most terrific flood doen here which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Over thee billows a vessel rode gaily, Gallantly bearing us friends from a far, Hearts were rejoicing, expecting her daily, When lost was, for ever, ill fated Dunbar!…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Whatever difficulties climate or dangers may present themselves, and there is gold to be found, all the caution will not keep back people from searching after the precious metal. It is anticipated that if the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FROM a private letter received in town yesterday, we learn that an entire family, consisting of ten persons, had perished in the flood at Araluen. Amongst other casualties mentioned in the same communication is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In addition to the disasters recorded below,we regret to state that intelligence reached Sydney yesterday, evert more distressing in its details than any previously received. At a place called Fish…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Whatever difficulties, climate o dangers may present themselves, when there is gold to be found, all the caution will not keep back people from seeking after the precious metal. It is anticipated, that if the present…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WE compile below further particulars of lin late disasrtous floods:â Extract of a letter from Lower Araluen, dater, 13th February, 1860…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DISASTROUS FLOODS.—February 13.—After a long silence, it is a pitiful tale—a sorrowful story—I have to record. Losses to life and property, the extent of which are not yet known, form the subject of a dark page in the annals of Braidwood and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PROMPT MEASURES OF THE GOVERNMENT—INSTANT RELIEF AFFORDED.—The Forster Ministry deserve well of their country. The prompt and energetic manner in which the Government have responded to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By the Hunter, steamer, arrived from the Clyde, we learn that the destruction of property all along the coast has been dreadful as far as Twofold Bay. Few particules have as yet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FEBRUARY 17.—THE FLOODS. PUBLIC MEETING.—The destruction of life and property caused by the late floods has created such a mournful feeling in this town, that a numerous meeting (although the notice was very short) was held at the Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLIC meeting was held yesterday at the Prince of Wales Theatre for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of relieving the unfortunate sufferers from the disastrous floods which have lately prevailed in the southern districts. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE give below, from the provincial papers, the latest particulars respecting the floods in the South country, and their effects. (From the Braidwood Observer, February 18.)…
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