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67 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4
THE heaviest rain sterms we have wi[?]nessed in Rockhamp on or its vicinity since the rains of March, 1862, fell upon Saturday and Sunday lest, and formed a fitting termination to the inconseqient showers with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The p[?]l subsidence of the floods has enabled [?] to obtain some intelligence as to the state of the weather in the [?]ay on Friday, when the gale was most violent. The [?] immigra[?] to [?] were only saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY the Telegraph steamer, we have Queensland papers to the 18th instant. There has been a serious flood. The Guardian of Tuesday, says:—The other day we expressed a fear…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELANCHOLY accounts reach us of the effects of the heavy gales which have swept over the country during the last few days. A Wisbech correspondent of the Times states that on the 18th his anemometer showed a pressure of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—As I am an old resident on the Clarence River, and have lately been taking advantage of the "Free Selection" in arrangement, I think that a few remarks from me on the subject of the late flood, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEDNESDAY, February l8.—We have had the most terrible flood here that ever took place on this river within the memory of the oldest white settler. The Clarence is about 600 yards wide at Grafton, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE are indebted to Greville and Bird for the following information relative to the flood at the Clarence. The news is up to Friday midnight:— On Saturday, the 14th February, the waters at Yates'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FROM all accounts to hand it appears that the late severe rains, which reached the [?]nating point, and came down with such force on Tuesday, were quite as heavy [?] over the district as they were in the vicinity of Braid [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THIS district has again been visited with an i[?]dation of an extensive and highly destructive character, although we believe we are correct in stating that the damage done on the present occasion, in the aggregate…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From air accounts to band it appears that the la[?] severe rains, which reached the culminating point and came down with such force en Tuesday, were quite as heavy all over that district as they were in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Messenger thus records the casualties occasioned by this disastrous flood:—In the township little damage was sustained. Indeed the flood was rather a godsend than otherwise, for now we have the lagoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Tenterfield Chronicle of February 10[?] has the following additional partionlars of the Clarence River-flood. We have already published, from the Gratton Journals, the report of the results of the flood at that lower part…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LOST AND SEVEN LOADED DRA[?]S SWEPT AWAY.—A traveller arrived here from Fairfield last night, and communicated to us the intelligence of a most deplorable character, namely, the loss of four lives, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE WEATHER.—I stated at the close of my last communication that Friday and Saturday, the 13th and 14th instant, was exceeding wet; the same wet weather continued throughout Saturday night and Sunday. [?]uring…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the township little damage was sustained Indeed the flood was rather a godsend than otherwise, for now we have the lagoon on which we are dependent for our water supply filled to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEDNESDAY, February 18.—We have had the most terrible flood here that ever took place on this river within the memory of the oldest white settler. The Clarence is about 600 yards wide at Grafton, with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BY the Telegraph steamer, we have Queensland papers to the 18th instant. There has been a serious flood. The Guardian of Tuesday, says:—The other day we expressed a fear…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Messenger thus records the casualties occasioned by this disastrous flood:—In the township little damage was sustained. Indeed the flood was rather a godsend than otherwise, for now we have the lagoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One of the most disastrous floods that has been known within the memory of the "oldest inhabitant" has taken place during the last week in this district. The country for miles round has beoome perfectly inundated. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WITHIN the period of the occupation by white men of the districst of the Clarence, no calamity has befallen it so great as that which it is this week our painful duty to reord. Not more than three or four months…
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