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135 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 7
SINCE sending my report of the disastrous flood which occurred here last week, the rapid subsiding of the water, together with fine weather has enabled me to explore the country around, and gather some further information…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Prince of Wales Theatre yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of relieving the unfortunate sufferers from the late disastrous flood in the Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The harrowing accounts coming in from all the Southern districts more than confirm the disastrous intelligence previously received. The Braidwood district has suffered to an almost equal extent with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting was held on Monday, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM the communications of correspondents, and private sources of information, we are enabled to place before our readers the following record of the most sad and serious disaster which has ever visited this portion of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another correspondent of the Mercury says:—"Since my last communication, the river has fallen nearly to its ordinary levels. The back swamps, however, will take many days before the superfluous water is drawn off—the only outlet being the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Rlawarra Mercury of Tuesday, contains further particulars of the late disastrous floods. We extract the following: Mr. G. N. Alley, in a long letter to the local…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LAST night a meeting of the operatives and employes connected with the iron trades to sympathise with and subscribe for the relief of the sufferers by the late floods was hold at the Lithouse Hotel, Su[?]ex-street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE following letter has been handed to us for publication:— Shoalhaven, February 20. My Dear Sir,—You and Mrs. Croft will regret to learn the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. HOLMES, storekeeper, had his dwellinghouse washed completely away from Adams' Wharf, and considerable property in his store injured by the flood—his loss I hear is about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—No one could have read the distressing accounts which have appeared in your paper from day to day, without having their sympathy excited on behalf of the sufferers from the late floods. I am glad that a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PUBLIC meeting of the inhabitants of Newtown, South Sydney, and Cook's River, called for the purpose of adopting measures for the relief of the sufferers by the late disastorus floods, was held in a large iron store, near…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Iron Store, near the Wesyleyan Chapel, Newtown, last evening, for the purpose of collecting subscriptions in aid of the Southern Floods Relief Fund. There were about 150 of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →IT is very gratifying to observe the promptitude with which the cry for help from the sufferers by the late disastrous floods has been responded to in Sydney. Already more than £1500 has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Extract of a letter from Shoalhaven, dated 21st February:— "It will be evident that there has been a heavy strain en all whose stores of flour, &c., were dry, and I believe that, with the exception of the Government relief, there is no flour in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE condition of things here is beginning to emerge from the fearful state of confusion occasioned by the recent flood. Those on the bank are busy at work repairing their houses, a task of no mean difficulty, as in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Wednesday, the 8th instant, it commenced to rain, and it liter[?] poured down without the slightest intermission until Saturday morning. (The creeks in the neighbourhood rose higher than what they have been for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MANY false rumours relative to the flood in this district being in circulation, it might allay some of the anxiety felt if a narrative of facts (so far as they are at present known) appeared in your journal.) I therefore send it to you. Commencing at the head of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following letters has been handed to us for publication:— Dear Sir,—We received a letter from you yesterday, and feel obliged to you for your kind wishes for our…
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