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135 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 7
SIR,—With reference to your very pertinent leader in this day's issue, in which you state that "you do not rightly know on whom rests the real responsibility of laying out that portion of the works that are now under repair, between Liverpool and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEDNESDAY, 25TH JULY.—When I closed my report yesterday the rain had for a little time abated; but from about half-past four o'clock till seven o'clock p.m. It poured down in torrents, fully making allowance for the little respite we had enjoyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,âYou will oblige by correcting the statement of your correspondent of St. Mary's, where he states Mr. John Page's man, horse, and cart were res[?]ed by the gallantry of a constable, who jumped into the angry for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Now when the thunder clouds of war Dark shadows [?]er our country fling, O Poe[?] not of beauty nor Of joy and pleasure should'[?]t tho[?] sing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →30TH JULY.—This district has again been visited by one of these calamities which will make the year 1860 memorable for its disasters. On Saturday, the 21st, at about 2 p.m., a gentle rain began to descend from a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR Braidwood papers, received yesterday, convey the intelligence that the recent heavy rains had again inundated that part of the country. The following is from the Braidwood Observer, of Saturday last:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →[?]0TH JULY.—This district has again been visited by one of these calamities which will make the year 1860 memorable for its disasters. On Saturday, the 21st, at about 2 p.m., a gentle rain began to descend from a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →—On Friday night last it commenced raining, and continued to do so steadily, but not very heavily, until about two a.m. on Tuesday, when it descended in torrents for about ten hours, accompanied with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FINDINO in your Monday'a issue a letter signed "Patrick Clooney," requesting you to correcta statement in your columns of Thursday, 26th July, written by your correspondent, in which it was stated that the credit of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—In your issue of the 26th of July is a letter from your correspondent respecting the late flood, at St. Mary's on the 23rd July last, in which mention is made of a constable saving a man and horse from being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EIGHTEEN hundred and sixty has been with us a year of great storms and floods, but providentially very few lives have been sacrificed thereby. The annals of the country contain accounts of floods more devastating…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE terrific gale from the N.W. on Monday last, a most unucual occurrence at this season of the year, told with most dis[?]trous effect upon the shipping of the coast, and the destruction of life and properly has been truly appalling. As far as the present…
Continued on Trove, page 144 →A LECTURE was delivered last evening, at a meeting o the Church of England Sunday School Institute in the Church of England Society's room, Phillip—street, by Rev. William Stack, of Balmain, on " The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Tuesday, a meeting of the subscribers to the food for relieving the sufferers by the floods in the southern districts was held in the Exchange reading room—the Rev. Dr. Lang in the chair—for the purpose of receiving from the committee a report of their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS fund has now been closed. At a meeting of the subscribers held in the Exchange Rooms, the Rev. Dr. Lang in the chair, the following report and accounts were presented, and on the motion of Mr. FAIRFAX,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cooma correspondent or the Yass Courier gives the following account of a dreadful loss of life by a snow storm at the head of the Tumut:— As some parties were clesring some of the snow which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Over all Italy, from the Alps to the furthermost corner of Sicily, a dark cloud hangs. Where the tempest will break out, what will be the first sounds of the storm, is uncertain. But it cannot be long…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON the 18th, a meeting of the subscribers to the fund for relieving the sufferers by the floods in the southern districts was held in the Exchange reading room—the Rev. Dr. Lang in the chair—for the purpose of receiving from the committee a report of their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADMIRAL FITZROY read a paper on British Storms, which was illustrated with a number of large diagrams prepared by Mr. Babington, of Cambridge. It is well known that no year passed in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MAN is never as much himself as when he is alone, lie of the truest heart among us wears over that heart a veil of greater or letter density of hypocrisy when in the society of his fellow-men. It is only when he is…
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