Poet's Corner. Original. the Bird in the Storm
The rain was falling; the winds were calling; The clouds swept over the sky;— When, 'mid the alarm of darkness and storm, A shower of song swept by…
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Storm Signals
THE efforts of the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade to organise a machinery for affording intelligible intimation of approaching storms, are already appreciated beyond the limits within which those efforts are employed. It must be a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Snow Storm at K[?]andra. (From the Monaro Mercury.)
This winter is widely different from the last. At the present moment' Kiandra is completely encompassed with snow, without any possibility of either ingress or egress, and has been so for the past eight or ten days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Snow Storm at Kiandra. (From the Mon[?] Mercury.)
OF what has really been the nature of the winter up in this particular locality but little has been known before the present one, at least no reliable authority has come forward to give anything approaching a…
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OF what has really been the nature of the winter up in this particular locality but little has been known before the present one, at least no reliable authority has come forward to give anything approaching a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood in the Hunter. [From Our Maitland Correspondent.] Maitland, Friday, 4 p.m
It rained heavily here, with short intervals, from nine to ten o'clock, but has since ceased. The river is nearly bank high, and has broken over at the Horseshoe Bend. Fisher's Creek and Wallis' Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods in the Hunter. [From Our Correspondent.]
MORPETH, July 26th—It commonced raining here on Tuesday afternoon, and continued to pour down incessantly until about two o'clock to-day, when the wind shifted from about south to south-west, since which it has partially…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flood in the Hunter. [FROm Our Correspondent.] West Maitlant, Saturday, 5 p.m
The river has fallen six inches, at Singleton, since last midnight. At Maitland the river broke over the bank, near Hill's stores, in High-street, last night,and the water was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood in the Hunter. (From Our Correspondent.) West Maliland, Monday, 5 P.M.
The flood in the river hos receded nine feet sinoe Satordey. Large quantities of maize, wheat, lucarne, and other orops have been destroyed. The stato of the embankment at Wallis's Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood in the Hunter. (From Saturday's Mercury.)
FOR several weeks past the weather has been unaettied. Dry westerly winds prevailed for an unusual length of time; bat the sky gradually- became increasingly over. cast, and full of indications of en approaching heavy…
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The heavy rains of last week have caused floods in several parts of the country, particularly on the Hunter, where the destruction to property has been great. On Saturday, the High-street at Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flood. [From Our Correspondent.]
MORPETH, JULY 29.—Since yesterday morning the water has continued steadily to fall, the total subsidence of the river up to this morning being about seven feet at Morpeth, and this evening it appears to be pretty rapidly regaining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flood in the Hunter. (From the Maitland Mercury.)
IN our last issue we reported the progress of the flood to the hour on Friday evening at which we went to press. At that hour the river would have been flowing over its bank into High street, near Messrs. Ha'l and Co 'a, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Flood and Loss of Life. (From the Tamworth Examiner, July 27th.)
FROM the announcements which have appeared in tins journal during the past three weeks in reference to the state of the weather, the reader will not be unprepared for the sad intelligence which it is our painful duty now to record…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Flood and Loss of Life at Tamworth. (From the Tamworth Examiner, July 27.)
FROM the 10th until the 22nd the weather still continued fine, although some alight showers fell on Sunday, the 21st, but not sufficient to cause any alarm; but on the afternoon of the 23rd it again commenced to rain heavlly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Flood. [From Our Morpeth Correspondent.]
JULY 31ST.—The weather for the last two days has been fine and sunny, with a light wind from the west. The flood has altogether subsided, and the water has disappeared from the flooded land, except…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flood in the Hunter. (from Yesterday's Mercury.)
In localties where the river or the creeks simply poured over their btoks and floded level lends beyond, the fall of the streams has at once drained off the flood water. This has been the case at Pheonix Park and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Country News. Disastrous Flood and Loss of Life at Tamworth. [From Our Correspondent.]
We have at last been visited with a tremendous flood, attended, I am sorry to say, with the loss of one precious life Whilst, during the last six months, almost every part of the colony has, more or less, experienced a floor,…
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FROM the announcements which have appeared in this journal during the past three weeks in reference to the state of the weather, the render will out be unprepared for the sad intelligence which it is our painful duty now to record…
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THE river Hunter has once more flooded over its banks, and caused great destruction to the surrounding properties, The Herald's Morpeth correspondent furnishes the following details:—It commenced raining at Morpeth…
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