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WE are Indebted to the Argus for the following:— Yesterday was a sad occasion for the shipping in the Madras road, and may be recorded as one of those rare out disastrous visitations which we are at intervals…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YESTERDAY was a sad occasion for the shipping in the Madras Roads, and may be recorded as one of those rare but disastrous visitations which we are at intervals called upon to chronicle in connexion with the north-east monsoon. Glimpses of the sun…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE fearful gales which set in from the south west on Friday have proved m[?] disastrous to the fleet of steamships which are employed in the cattle trade between the several ports of the north of Europe and London…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE weather, which had been for some days previously of a settled character and very hot was varied on Wednesday evening by a thunderstorm from the south-west, followed by several hours of steady rain. This was regarded as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Casting a glance over the state of the world, "from China a Peru," as represented by Reuter's telegrama, we cannot avoid being impressed with a feeling of uncasiness as to the events which a few months, or even…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is again our unpleasant duty to record the occurrence of an extensive flood in the valley of the Hunter. The [?]bowers of the previous week gave place on Wednesday to a o'ose and steady fall of rain, which,accompanied as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The weather very stormy this morning strong guste and rain prevail: many houses and [?]enta are troubling— the inmates much alrmed; and masters of vessels auxious about the safety of their charger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN last Saturday's Issue we chronicled the advent and progress of this disastrous visitation. On the morning of that day the river at Maitland was within eighteen inches of being as high as during the flood of August, 1857. The current continued to run…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11.—Tamworth has met the fate of Gundagai. So disastrous a flood no individual here has witnessed. The writer has seen some floods for the past nine years, but nothing to compare with this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I hasten to inform you of one of the most disastrous floods that has taken place in this district since its first foundation, but I am happy to inform you that we have lost no lives; and at present I am not able to ascertain the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The rain began to fall on Tuesday evening, and poured down steadily until Thursday afternoon: The river became impassable to drays on Wednesday, rose rapidly during the night, and was half bank high at day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is a copy of a letter received in Maitland yesterday from Mr.Otto Baldwin:- "Derriwarindi, February 13, 1864— Saturday. "We are in a depicrable condition here; we had a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A brief letter Was received yesterday by our cotemporary from its agent at Tamworth, Mr.Regan Writing on Friday, he states that telegraphic communication with Tamworth was stopped. A most disastress flood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN last Saturday's issue we chronicled the advent and progress of this disa[?]trous visiotation. On the morning of that day the river at Maitland was within eighteen inches of being as high as during the flood of August…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SELDOM has it been our lot to furnish such a chronicle of maritime disaster as that which appears in our present impression. The list of casualties embraces almost every locality on the coast of the United Kingdom, and many points on the adjacent seaboard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The rain began to fall on Tuesday evening, and poured down steadily until Thursday afternoon. The river became impassible to drays on Wednesday, rose rapidly during the night, and was half bank high nt daylight on Thursday, from which time until…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I hasten to inform you of one of the most disastrous floods that has taken place in this district since its first foundation, but I am happy to inform you that we have lost no lives; and at present I am not able to ascertain the amount of damage,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday, as early as nine a.m., the Page had commenced to rise—at eleven a.m. very rapidly, so that it was bank high. Some tears were at this time apprehended for the safety of the houses occupied by the Rev. Mr. Hay and Mr. Donaldson, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FEBRUARY 15.—This part of the country has been visited with one of those awful floods with which the colony is sometimes afflicted, attended with a loss of life and property which will bring utter ruin to many, and sadness and sorrow to all. On…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following is a copy of a letter received in Maitland yeterday, from Mr. Otto Baldwin:— "Derriwarindi, February 13th, 1864.—Saturday. "We are in a deplorable condition here; we had a flood six…
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