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67 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4
KE[?]P [?]Y, FEBRUARY [?].—The rain, at the [?] of the last month, caused the Macleay to rise about ten feet above its ordinary level at the sommencement of the present, but no material damage was the result. For a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WITHIN the period of the occupation by w[?]ite men of the district of the C arence, no calamity has befallen it so great at that which it is this week our painful duty to record. Not more than three or four months have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I think that a little more foresight and caution ought to be shown by those persons who have charge of children at ending our National schools under circumstances similar to that which happened on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DISASTROUS floods have inundated Gipps Land, and seven persons are reported to have perished by the sudden submersion of the country. The Gipps Land Times of 24th ultimo in noticing the devastations of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In our regular publication of Friday last, it became our painful duty to record several of the rumeurs which were then flying about of various casualties which had occurred in the backwaters of the rivers Thomson,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have been visited by the largest flood ever witnessed by white men. It was always said by the old residents of the Richmond, that no fresh would ever overflow the banks at Casino. The fact of the river having a descent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following additional disasters, occasioned by the late flood, have been reported to us since our last issue:— SOUTH GRAFTON.—At South Grafton we learn that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the most disastrous floods that has been known within the memory of the "old[?]stinhabitant" has taken place during the last week in this district. The country for miles round has become perfectly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Within the period of the occupation by white men of the district of the Clarence, no calamity has befallen it so great as that which it is this week our painful duly to record. Not more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DISASTROUS floods have inundated Gipps Land, and seven persons we reported to have perished by the sudden submersion of the country. The Gipps Land Times of 24th ultimo in noticing the devastations of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →WITHIN the period of the occupation by white men of the district of the Clarence, no calamity has befallen it to great us that which it is this week our painful duty to record. Not more than three or four months…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE loss of life in consequence of the recent floods has been very lamentable, and, in the districts where it has occurred, adds to the gloom caused by the destruction of property Some of the lives might,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The heavy rains which fall dnring the l[?]tter portion of last month occasioned a large loss of life and property on the Maclesy, the Clarence, and other northern rivers. At the two rivers named, eighteen lives were lost, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY morning another violent gole blew over the whole of England. In London it becomes very high shortly after midnight, and it continued to range with increasing fury until 4 o'clock yesterday morning, wh[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →KEMPSEY, MARCH 1[?]—The amount of damage sus[?] during the late flood is so v[?]riously estimated that [?] d[?] [?]sion [?] possibly be arrived at. The greatest loss has fallen to the lot of those whose crop[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MOST destructive gale from N.N.W. raged in this [?] cality from the 18th to the 21st, The gale was steap[?] and continuons, varied occasionally by showere of [?] rain, and snow, On the 20th there was also thunder and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—In a note to the meteorological results for February, published in your paper of the 12th instant, I briefly alluded to a remarkable depression of the barometer which occured on the 17th. of that month. Although my own…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A LETTER from a resident on the Merri Merr[?]addressed to T. H. Sinden, Esq., Mudgee, and politely handed to us for public[?]tion, [?]bles us to supply our readers with the following account of the above disastrous flood. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GREAT FLOOD AT ARMIDALE.—On Wednesday afternoon, the westher at Armidale again broke, fortunately after on interval which had enabled the creeks to become low, and many of the smaller gullies…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOURKE, April 2.—For the last two months the Darling has been rising, but it was not expected to rise so high as it now is at Bourke—from forty to fifty feet above its ordinary level—within two feet of the level of the…
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