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313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 16
AUGUST 12TH.—It is my painful task to describe a most calamitous visitation. The weather, which had been remarkably fine up to this day week, suddenly changed on the 5th, when it commenced to rain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE bill introduced by the Sheffield Waterworks Company into Parliament for the purpose of enabling them to raise additional capital to complete their works and reimburse the sufferers by the late flood,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Much has been said of the distress existing in various parts of the colony in consequence of the recent floods, and although accounts have appeared in your columns of the Lachlan having been repeatedly flooded, yet, for all that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON MONDAY morning the Engineer-in-Chief for Harbours and Rivers, E. O. Moriarty, Esq., arrived at East Maitland by the early train from Newcastle. He from thence proceeded to Morpeth, and by the Government tug…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This was a motion for a new trial in an action of trover. The plaintiff had obtained a verdict for £550. Counsel in support of the rule, Sir W. Manning, Q.C., and Mr. Sheppard; for the verdict, Mr. Darvall, Q.C.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE fine genial weather during the past month has entirely dispelled the gloom occasioned by the previous floods in varions parts of the colony. The subacriptions in aid of the sufferes from the devastating floods have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLIC meeting was held in the School of Arts, West Maitland, on Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of receiving the final report of the Flood Relief Committee. Very few persons were present, which,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE sabre, and the fifle, and the cannon's deadly roar.— On the sea and on the shore, In the forests wild and hoar, Than death can bring no more,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE heaviest storm experienced on this coast for a long time occurred on Friday night last, and continued with unabsted violence during a good part of Saturday. The ravages of this storm, however, were not confined to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The acrew steamer You Yangs arrived at Sydney about noon yesterday, having encountered the full force of the late heavy gale without sustaining the slightest damage. She left Newcastle on Friday, at 6.30 p.m.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE weather for the last few days has been very overcost and threatening. Thursday was particularly dull with little or no wind; towards evening a slight breeze came from the westward, accompanied by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney and the coast were visited on Friday and Saturday last with the heaviest gales, blowing from the south-west accompanied by heavy storms of rain, that have been experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We take the following further particulars respecting the [?] disastrous gale on the coast from yesterday's Mait laad Mercury- we learn from a gentleman who arrived by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ARRIVED Admiralty and colonial surveying schooner Captain Cook, from a surveying cruise at the Solitary Islands, Trial Bay, and from an examination of the coast as far north as Point Danger. She left her surveying ground on the 28th ultimo:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following letter in reference to the recent gales has been received from the Harbour Master at Newcastle, and handed to us for publication:- Harbour Office, Newcastle, 4th October, 1864…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHOWING HOW MARK TAPLEY, ESQUIRE, AND FAMILY MADE THE BEST OF IT…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Heaviest gale ever known on this coast set in early on the morning of the 30th ult. The weather during the previous week was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The heaviest storms experienced on the Asutralian coast for many years past commenced on the night of Friday, the 30th September, and continued with unabated viclence from south and south-east during the 1st and 2nd instant. A large amount…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE severs thunder. from which tisied the district of pennant hills on thursday last did not leave the inbahi ants without some tokes of remembrance. the National cehoolhouse was strick with the electric find…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific cyclone passed over Calcutta on the 5th October, spreading, in a few hours, such destruction over life and property as is unparalleled. Scarcely a house or public building…
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