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135 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 7
As no reliable accounts of any extensive damage, by the late floods, reached Sydney on Monday, it was generally believed that the districts regarding which most anxiety was felt,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY [?].—Following up the subject of my lest, I have had an opportunity of partially inspecting the damages done by the flood. The river, I may stats, has lowered sufficiently to enable us to see what has been left of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOR more than forty-three years no such, flood was ever known in this district anything approaching to that experienced on Friday and Saturday last. The western banks on the Moore Bank Estate, adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting of the Inhabitants and proprietors of property in the neighbourhood of the Haymarket, was held last evening, a[?] Mr.Dishington's Oddfellow's Arms, George-street, to take into consideration the best means for preventing the great de…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE following extract from a private letter received by Mr. Wm. Tye, of Newtown, from his father-in-law, Mr. James Hxuley, of Richmond Bottoms, will shew the distressing position to which many of the settlers in that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SI[?] my fast communication I have had further opportunities for observing the effects of the [?] floods. I deeply deplore having to state that I can only confirm my former report, and add more to the mournful tales of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE water has nearly disappeared from our plains, unfortunately the consequences are not so easily surmounted. DAMAGES.—When penning my first account, I hoped…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A most violent hurricane raged in the metropolis and the surrounding districts on the 28th February. The damage done on land and water was immense. As to navigation on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MISFORTUNE, it is said, never comes single, so, like Job's messengers, one disastrous flood follows another. We may, however, be thankful the present calamity is limited in its consequences; but as the past visitations warn us…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN adjourned public meeting of the inhabitants of Windsor, Richmond, and the Hawkesbury, took place at the Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor, on Tuesday afternoon (8th), for the purpose of taking steps to afford assistance to the poorer sufferers in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE recent floods suggest some measures of public importance as to the registration of floods, the construction of bridges, roads, &c. The registration of floods, both as to their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY has not been visited with such heavy rain for many years, as that which fell from Wednesday, the 25th April, to the following Sunday. Scarcely have we rallied from the effects of the disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Scarcely had the country recovered from the devastating effects of the February floods, when a second visitation, in many places greater than the former one, spread terror and desolation over the land. From Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AFTER a duration of fifty-six hours, the fury or the late gale has passed over, and we are happy to state, as far as this port is concerned, has left no melancholy record of disasters to the shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Sailor's Horn-Book for the Law of Storms. By Henry Piddington, President of Marine Courts, Calcutta. Third Edition. Williams ana Norgate. 1860…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN nearly every district there are evidences of the violence of the storm which visited the city on the forenoon of Tuesday. In the vicinity of the Strawberry-hill, a house was blown completely down, and some other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I REGRET to have to inform you that we have been visited by a flood which is likely to prove mere disastrous than the last one, and that was accounted the highest we had previously experienced. The present…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERADAY morning, at ten minutes past 8 o'clock, as Pilots Fullerton and Shank were on the look-out at the South Head Signal Station, they observed, amongst a number of vessels in sight, three coasters standing in for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Quarter Sessions passed over extremely quiet. Messrs. F. Oakes and G. Langley have disposed of the only business since, being that of a Chinaman for having stolen goods in his possession, whom they…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT was not to be expeeted that the heavy rains with which this part of the coa[?]t has been visited for some days past, would have failed to leave devastating trae[?] bebind them in the country. Accordingly, c[?]r…
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