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87 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 5
ANOTHER of those disastrous flcods, that have brought ruin to the homestead of many an induatrious settler on the Nepean, during the last four years, has just occurred at Menangle. About 5 o'clock a.m. on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the last ten or twelve days we have had rain nearly every day, some days slight, and on others heavy showers. So far as we have yet heard, these rains at first were principally confined to the lower part of the district,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the last ten or twelve days we have had rain nearly every day, some days slight and other days heavy showers. So far aa we have yet heard, these rains at first were principally confined to the lower…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MAY 2. —THE FLOOD. —You will have learnt from my telegrams that Windsor has been once more in a state of flood. It commenced raining here on Friday last, and continued with unabated vigour to pour down…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR, —Permit me, through the medium of your jenrnal, to correct a misstatement which appears in your issue of 30th ultimo, headed " The Weather and the Railways."…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The water is still rising, having covered the South Creek Bridge. Information has just been received that constable Gordon, of Bathurst, is supposed to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Maitland the river commenced a second rise before nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, and by two o'clock that afternoon it had gradually reached the highest level of the previous evening. The rise continued, with much…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MONDAY, 20TH, APRIL, 10 A M.—During the past week rain had fallen in cnsiderable quantities, still up to 5 p.m. (Sunday) but a slight rise was perceptible in the water of the brook. Last night, for hours, the rain fell in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIR district has been visited with the highest flood known for many years past. The weather for six or seven days previous had been stormy, with rain, but being from S. W., the rain did not extend inland until Saturday, the 28th…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Writing from the Paterson, the correspondent of the Mercury says:—From what I can learn, there has been a great deal of demage done in this district by the flood. At Gresford I am told that the river was from three to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY 2.—THE FLOOD.—You will have learnt from my telegrams that Windsor has been once more in a state of flood. It commenced raining here on Friday last, and continued with unabated vigour to pour down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Essex arrived at London on the 21st February, after a passege from Melbourne, of 95 days. A passenger by the above wessel, after describing the passeage throughout, writes thus:- February 27.—Our voyage was favourable, althouth somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No sooner had we begun to congratulate ourselves upon the return of fine weather and the passable state of our streets-mail communication with our neighbours on the Richmond and other places resumed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—A statement made in the Herald of the 4th instant may occasion unnecessary alarm to those persons in Sydney who have business relations with this river. We, therefore, hasten to correct it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No sooner had we begun to congratulale [?] upon the return of fine weather and the pasable state of our streets—mail communication with our ne[?] on the Richmond and other places resumed, tha[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No sooner had we begun to congratulate ourselves upon the return of fine weather and the passable state of our streets—mail communication with our neighbours on the Richmond and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No sooner had we begun to congratulate ourselves upon the return of fine weather and the passable state of our streets—mail communication with our neighbours on the Richmond and other places resumed,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE damage done by the late floods fortunately turas out to be much less than was anticipated, no lives have been lost, except those of the boy Forde and constable Siedtz, wno so gallantly endeavoured to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →IT is like the attempt to make oneself heard amidst the roaring of a tempest to uplift the feeble voice of reason amidst the storm that is raging about Essays and Reviews. One thing is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JUST a month has elapsed since the last flood at the North Arm, and we are again visited with another, to complete the destruction that the last had left unfinished. On Thursday, the 25th ultimo, the rain set…
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